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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.
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. Sunset in El Dorado Hills near Sacramento! Love all the shades of blue and yellow in here. It was right after the sun dropped. This is quite surreal, because it is. The fires in California make the sun appear this way and the sky does its own thing too. I took this photograph in the Tahoe National Forest near Nevada city. Bottom is right in the middle of the night. Top is an hour before dawn. It’s a time lapse of the Milky Way over some mountains. A couple of the images in this sequence are off. Can you tell which ones? #milkyway #collage #timelapse Another unexpected guest on a macro shot 😊 Can you believe we didn’t even know this comet existed until less than 4 months ago? And now we won’t see it again for 6700 years! C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) or Comet NEOWISE is a retrograde comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered on March 27, 2020, by astronomers during the NEOWISE mission of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope. Under dark skies, it can be clearly seen with the naked eye and might remain visible to the naked eye throughout most of July 2020, at least until July 23, the point of the comet's closest approach to Earth at a distance of 0.69 AU (103 million km; 64 million mi). Comet NEOWISE made its closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) on July 3, 2020, at a distance of 0.29 AU (43 million km; 27 million mi). This passage increases the comet's orbital period from about 4400 years to about 6700 years. I was hiking / climbing in the Tahoe National Forest and taking some pictures of the wildflowers when I suddenly noticed this tiny little thing on one of the petals. I only had a few seconds to get this photo and I got lucky to have it be in exact focus. Anyone know what this little guy is called? This is the lightest part of the main Milky Way band. I used stacking for this one (i.e. I merged 8 separate exposures into one) - something I have never done before. It’s supposed to reduce noise significantly, but I haven’t pixel peeped yet.

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