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5 Things I Learned Last Night About Snow

Never having lived through a snowy winter, there is much about dealing with the white stuff I don’t know. Last night was a great learning experience, for I learned ALL SORTS of things related to snow. Having gone to the eastern shore each night of this current trip to Lake Tahoe, I decided last night […]

Good Things Come To Those Who Wait

How long did it take to make this photograph? About two hours last night to get it just right, plus several trips over the past year to find the right location and perspective, four evenings in the past two weeks waiting for the sky to be perfectly clear, and several months waiting for the above […]

There’s a storm brewin’

These spring snow storms I mentioned last time can come in pretty quickly. On Saturday evening I was on the east shore of Lake Tahoe hoping for something amazing to photograph and was pleased, at first, to see a snow storm coming down over the mountains and heading right for me. It’s not every day […]

Venga la tormenta

On Thursday I went looking for another local point of interest in the Lake Tahoe area, the famed Bonsai Rock, which rests on the eastern shore of the lake, just below Sand Harbor. Someone on Flickr had posted the location of the rock, but actually getting to the spot was a bit of a challenge. […]

Sierra Wave

This was taken Sunday afternoon from Speedboat Beach. As I was came over Donner Summit I noticed this amazing cloud over the lake area and wondered if it would still be visible by the time I arrived at the water. It was, but it was too far north to photograph more than this section of […]

Tahoe Regional Planning Agency at Work

Several aspects of doing work on our place in Kings Beach have seemed unnecessarily complicated when it comes to what we can and can’t do on the property according to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. There are strict limits on moving soil, coverage of the land itself, runoff, etc etc. But after this last trip […]

Setting Moon

The setting moon was visible from where I’d been shooting for about 7 minutes this morning as the clouds were changing pretty quickly. This morning’s colors in the sky were subtle but quite nice. The amount of snow that had melted since last week allowed me to reach several new spots, such as this one […]