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We carried a drone to all the summits we did in that year, but the conditions were never right to fly a drone. Finally, we got lucky on the way down from the summit of Mt Stuart, the wind stopped, there was no one else on the mountain, and here’s what we ended up with.
I spent a week driving around Norway above the Arctic Circle in the winter capturing the Northern Lights. The above was captured on New Years day!
We spent all night right next to the lava flows (in a very safe way!) in Hawaii. It was a surreal experience. This was also my first attempt at an HDR video.
I was in Ukraine a few years ago and visited. And that’s when I shot this footage of the “Russian Woodpecker”. Read more here.
This spot is less than 3 hours from San Francisco. We were at 3,000ft/914m above sea level, heading east and just a few mins after this we were surrounded by snow. Love the late evening sun filtering through the dense fog! #california #mountains #winter #sierras Something about the juxtaposition of so many things stand out here. The sunset far behind creating a dramatic backdrop while the purplish path is the same color as the mountains; the cute goats, the colorful assortment of plastic containers, the geometric neatness of the planted trees contrasted by the chaotic leaves in the foreground, and even the contrast between objects in tack sharp focus and those blurred out. No filters. This is what it looked like before sunrise yesterday at Kings Canyon National Park. Love that natural gradient - blue to pink to orange to yellow back to blue! The blue at the horizon is called the Earth’s Shadow - it’s literally the shadow cast by the earth on the western sky when the sun is about to rise in the east. The pink is called the Belt of Venus. The first pic here is a single 6s capture on a Sony full frame camera. The other two were shot on an iPhone 13 Pro Max at 30s. What do you think about the differences? The Dixie Fire, the largest single fire in California history, entered the southeast corner of Lassen Volcanic National park in August, 2021 when the park entered into unified command with USFS and CAL FIRE to implement a full suppression strategy. Ferry building with Alcatraz ☺️ Mt Diablo view from the Delta Under the ground, inside a cave, with two 3-mo old twin babies for Father’s Day 👶🏼👶🏼 Fed by the melting snowpack of the Sierra Nevada mountains, the American River runs 30 miles from the mountain range all the way to Sacramento. Via the Sacramento River it connects to the San Francisco Bay Area watershed. I got this pic with my drone. It was a clear day, perfect temperature, and all the shades of blue and green! The Golden Gate Bridge is also an emoji 🌁 Its color was inspired by the red primer used to keep the steel from oxidation. Various studies were done where they considered black, grey, aluminum etc. Do we want the bridge to blend in or do we want it to stand out? This color, called “International Orange” was chosen. It’s slightly modified but closest to the version also used in the aerospace industry. Happy New Year everyone! I took this picture over New Year’s Eve night. Actually these are 200 images (15s exposures) blended together to reveal the movement of the stars over an hour. What do you think? Driving up to Lassen Volcanic National Park over Christmas. It was a winter wonderland! And it may surprise some people that this is actually in California. It was snowing the whole time which creates this diminishing visibility effect as we look further away into the distance. #winter #california #snow Donner Pass: this is where the first European settlers entered into present-day California. They tried using a new route and it led to a horrible tragedy, if you have ever read about the Donner Party, this pass is named after them. Every time I drive across the Bay Bridge, I always have my eyes peeled for this view. This time there was a cruise ship too! #sanfrancisco #coittower Hiking around Pyramid Peak near Tahoe in California, came across this beautiful dance. Fun timing to catch three of the #butterflies in very different poses. Almost feels like a merge of three different photos but is a single capture :) Standing at 10,300ft [3130m] on Camp Muir on Mt Rainier (an active volcano with 20+ glaciers), with Mt St Helen’s (another active volcano that famously erupted in 1980) in the background, and the beautiful ridges of all the mountains in between 🏔 Sunrise on Camp Muir! Flying into LAX early morning, got to witness this beautiful view! The dreamy clouds really add to the feeling, an exciting welcome into the city! Do you see that tiny plane in the sky? Got lucky with timing 🙂 #lax #losangeles #california A unique and interesting vantage view into the city of LA lies right in the middle of it in this park that recently reopened. It was so nice to be up there before sunrise and see the colors change in the peaceful setting of all the flowers in various colors Water level at Shasta Dam / Shasta Lake a few weeks ago, with Mt Shasta 14,179 feet (4321.8 m), in the background🏔 There’s a lupine superbloom happening near Sacramento in California these few weeks. I got a chance to check it out with my parents. The landscape is already surreal and the flowers take it to a totally different level #superbloom #folsomlake #flowers #wildflowers Somewhere in California! Since the viewfinder on my camera is no longer optical I can point the camera straight into the sun and not worry too much about my eyes. This is a 85mm f/1.8 with 9 rounded blades which creates this iconic smooth bokeh around the light source. We were at #donnerpass recently. The moon 🌝 was very bright and it created an opportunity for capturing something that shows a lit up subject as well as stars in the sky 🌌 . This is a single exposure. The bridge in the bottom foreground created even more depth. It was a beautiful night! Bathed in moonlight in the Tahoe National Forest. This may look like daytime but it is actually nighttime - the moon 🌝 was quite bright this weekend! Do you see the stars? The source of water for the Modesto Reservoir is the Tuolumne River, which begins high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The reservoir delivers up to 67,000 acre-feet per year of water to the City of Modesto, supplementing the City’s groundwater supply. Thousands of acres of the reservoir are also open to the public for recreational use like camping, fishing, etc. It’s a single exposure shot with very little post processing. It’s just a 3s exposure which makes the water ripples look smoothened out making it a good juxtaposition against the sharp background elements #modesto #california #modestoreservoir A peek view of the Ferry Building and Coit Tower, while driving across the San Francisco Bay Bridge! Ocean Beach in San Francisco always has great sunsets. But it can be quite cold, you always need to wear warm layers all year #oceanbeach #pacificocean #sanfrancisco Somewhere in Lassen Volcanic National Park! For years I have been flying north south across WA to CA and always choose my flight seat to get a view of Crater Lake in Oregon from up above. Had never visited it, always wanted to visit in the winter. Luckily, it has started snowing by now there when we visited recently. The lake was formed 7,700 years ago by a collapse of a volcano. At 1,949 ft / 594m it is the deepest lake in the US! We are standing at 7,100ft / 2,165m and temperature was 22°F / -5.6°C Mount Shasta is called Úytaahkoo or “White Mountain” in the native language Karuk. It has an elevation of 14,179 ft / 4321.8 m. It’s located in California but is part of the Cascade Mountains that stretch all the way to Oregon, Washington and even Canada.

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