Chelly in the spring of '99, and the Eastern Sierra in the fall of '99. I returned to Monument Valley again in the late Winter of 2000 for a Workshop I was conducting. Then, in the Spring of 2000 I spent 8 days rafting the Colorado River though the Grand Canyon , I extensively use the Photograph America Newsletter by Robert Hitchman to plan my trips. To learn more about the spirit, history and geography of this region, I also recommend two books in particular. Check them out.
Few places are both as beautiful yet desolate, as the northern California coastline.
From just north of the Golden Gate to the town of Mendecino, Highway 1 hugs the coast and provides some magnificent opportunities for landscape photography as well as the simple pleasures of touring and vacationing. As discussed elsewhere, I am not a wildlife photographer and therefore there will be little found on that topic here. Here are found a selection of my favourite images of this type. Though we all think that exotic foreign locales would be ideal locations for photography I often find that unless the trip is specifically targeted for photography it is better to play tourist and not try too hard. Sometimes one sets out to photograph one thing and find something else that interests or pleases more.