In mid October, my good friend Bob and I took a week and a half trip to explore the sandstone country with our cameras, mostly around the Utah-Arizona Border. We investigated: The Maze Petroglyph to the west of Coyote Buttes; Cottonwood Cove sandstone formations in South Coyote Buttes; White Pocket sandstone formations east of Coyote […]
Golden Lake in the Three Sisters Wilderness
About a week ago (August 17-19), four of us hiked into my favorite lake in the Oregon Cascades, Golden Lake. This year’s Cascades snow melt is extremely late and therefore I estimate that the wildflowers are also almost 3 weeks late. In addition, the flower displays seem quite anemic. Nonetheless, we had a great time […]
Canyon Creek & Three Fingered Jack Photos
Earlier this month (August 7-8) I took a two day hike to check out the wildflowers in the Canyon Creek drainage at the eastern foot of Three Fingered Jack. Specifically, I hiked into Upper Canyon Creek Meadows, a place I have visited each of the past two years. However, similar to last year, I found […]
New Canon 5D Mark III Camera
For the past year or so, I have been waiting for a new Canon SLR model that was lighter, smaller, and had better image quality than my 4+ year old, 21M pixel Canon 1Ds Mark III. When the new 5D Mark III was announced a few months ago, I was initially very bummed that it […]
Pictures from November Trip to France
I have published a couple of galleries of photos taken during last November’s house buying and renovation trip to Provence, France: France Gallery. Many of these photos were originally posted in the Chez Mirabel blog, but they were of pretty low quality since they were processed quickly on a computer with an inferior monitor/screen.