2026 Death Valley Super Bloom So Far
Based on our scouting in January, we returned to Death Valley in early March to enjoy this year’s strong wildflower bloom. It’s going to take… Read More »2026 Death Valley Super Bloom So Far
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Will 2026 Be A Super Bloom Spring In Death Valley? Was 2024?
First, let’s establish what a “super bloom” of wildflowers is, or isn’t. It seems to imply that a wildflower bloom is particularly strong in a… Read More »Will 2026 Be A Super Bloom Spring In Death Valley? Was 2024?
Death Valley Wildflowers, Rainfall and Super Blooms
So called “super bloom” years make it easy to find wildflowers in Death Valley, but they’re difficult to predict. A “1000-year rainfall event” hit Death… Read More »Death Valley Wildflowers, Rainfall and Super Blooms
Night and Landscape Photography Workshops 2022-2023
We’ve reached a major milestone on our workshop program: we celebrated completing ten years of leading landscape and night photography workshops in May! We’ve made… Read More »Night and Landscape Photography Workshops 2022-2023
Favorite Images Captured in 2020
The year started our innocuously enough, with a quick trip to Death Valley (below) to enjoy water on the Badwater Salt Flats, and another trip… Read More »Favorite Images Captured in 2020
The Mono Lake 2021 Calendar is Now Available!
The Mono Lake Committee’s annual calendar is better than ever for 2021. I’m entirely biased though, because they put one of my photos on the… Read More »The Mono Lake 2021 Calendar is Now Available!
Slink Fire Update
The Slink Fire left Slinkard Valley yesterday and came over the hills to burn above the towns of Coleville and Walker last night. It was… Read More »Slink Fire Update
Stacking Starry Night Landscapes With Sequator
For quite some time astrophotographers have used a program called Deep Sky Stacker to align and combine multiple starry images and create a better result.… Read More »Stacking Starry Night Landscapes With Sequator
February Workshop in Death Valley
With the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) ocean heat and weather pattern close to “on” since spring 2019, there was a reasonable chance that we’d… Read More »February Workshop in Death Valley
Will There Be a 2020 Super Bloom in Death Valley?
About the possibility of a wildflower “super bloom” in Death Valley in 2020… There HAS been a great quantity of moisture in some areas of… Read More »Will There Be a 2020 Super Bloom in Death Valley?