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Conglomerate Mesa
Spent a couple days on Conglomerate Mesa, one of my favorite places. The wilderness area threatened by mining interests with an eye on destroying the place with an open pit cyanide heap leech mine. Please go to https://protectconglomeratemesa.com/ today and add your voice to oppose the mine. Here are photos…
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Early Spring in the California Hills
I’ve spent the last couple evenings reveling in early blooms in California. The air is sweet, meadowlarks trill and everything feels renewed. Well, except for the odd things you stumble across sometimes out there
As always, feel free to click on the photos for better viewing. You won’t regret it.…
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Tehachapi Mountains & the Central Valley
As winter storms blew through over the holidays, I was fortunate enough to have a pretty spectacular view out across the southern Tehachapi Mountains and California’s Central Valley. Dramatic skies and light are something I live for - definitely got both on this occasion!
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Grey Fox
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We had the privilege of hosting this fine fellow in our backyard valley oak not too long ago. Gray foxes are distinct from other foxes in that they are well-adapted to climb trees. He hung out and napped in his lofty perch for most of the day. We see he…
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Acorn Flour
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In June, my wife Stephanie and I pulled up stakes in Burbank and moved to Stallion Springs outside Tehachapi. We were immediately struck by the two great old valley oak trees in the backyard. After discovering Kawaiisu mortars on the bank of Chanac Creek less than a mile from the…
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Into the Mystic
Fog shrouded our valley and that always gets me excited. So I headed out into the … mist-ic?
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Paging Ichabod Crane
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Come Away, O Human Child
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Swingset of the Apocalypse
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Spacerock Trail Race 2021
Was absolutely stoked to be photographing trail races after a long dry year of no events. Feels great to be back on the trails, capturing amazing humans pushing themselves to their limits. Spacerock is an annual race put on by New Global Adventures (www.newglobaladventures.com) at the world famous Vasquez Rocks…
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A Red Tale
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Shortly after moving to Stallion Springs, I discovered a red-tailed hawk nest with fledglings in it. I’ve kept tabs on them ever since. I’ve only seen the parents and a single juvenile for a while, so I’m guessing the second chick didn’t survive. Even though the surviving youngster is fully-fledged…
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Old Sites, New Things - New Sites & Sleeping Rings
Once again the Mojave has peeled back another layer and revealed hidden gems. It’s hard to understate how easy it is to miss petroglyphs and archaeological features in this vast and rugged wilderness. Every boulder is laced with cracks and lines. Patches of lichen further disrupt patterns. Heck, bird droppings…
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Smoking a Desert Pipe
Many are the times I have encountered this odd plant with its bloated sac and branches protruding from it that make it look like some woody troll doll. It was a curiosity, nothing more. But with all things in the natural world, there’s more to it than a funky hairdo…
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