The Butler County Courthouse on Main Street in Butler, Pennsylvania. If you look up my hometown on the web, the first photos you will see of the town are of…
McConnels Mill is a popular State Park in Western Pennsylvanis. Its dominant landmarks are the grist mill and red covered bridge that crosses Slippery Rock Creek. My Mom passed on…
Rock City, Mount Diablo, California Last week was another local day trip and surprisingly to somewhere I've never been. Mount Diablo is always present in the landscape. You can see…
Urban artwork at the Albany Bulb in Albany, California January and February 2022 were Omicron months, when day trips and local walkabouts were put on hold ... again. Time during…
Slime Mold growing on a rock after heavy rains. Underneath my neighbor's cedar tree, where the mushrooms love to grow, the floor of her garden is blanketed with broken cone…
The toxic Fly Agaric Mushroom (Amanita Muscaria) growing in a cluster underneath a Cedar tree after heavy rains. In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of…
Butternut Squash Soup at The Wood Tavern in Oakand, California. I photograph a lot of my food. I love great food and good or great food photography. I consider myself…
Books Books at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco Photography is a relatively new creative medium still - only 160-years old or so. As a young photographer, I enjoyed reading…
And Taschen publishes some of the nicest ones. If your photographer already has all the gear they need, why not pick out a book or two for them? Today's list…
The most Christmas-y related photo I could find in my portfolio. I guess I know what I need to shoot next! It's 2021 (!) and here at ARTIST-AT-LARGE I'm feeling…
Rock reflection in Mirror Lake in Yosemite Valley It is often forgotten by me that there are many paved options for walking to points of interest in Yosemite. Mirror Lake…
Early morning ice found in Yosemite Valley on Thanksgiving. Early morning on the day of Thanksgiving I found myself walking around the east end of Yosemite Valley, on the road…