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Galleries and Photo Essays

All photos have titles and most have captions, which are accessible in each gallery lightbox view by clicking on the “i” info icon on the lower left-hand corner of the page or screen on a laptop or swiping the tray up on a phone (it’s a little fiddly on the desktop / laptop version).

See also the Find Images page for a way to find images in the galleries using tags and text, but this is currently a little primitive.

Snaphots of the California, Nevada, and Utah deserts: Death Valley, the Mojave, Owens Valley, the Great Basin, and beyond, as taken on anything from an old 4×5 view camera to an iPhone.

Some snapshots from another time and place… or maybe a love letter to The Tube.

Abstract photos from above of the LADWP’s remediation efforts at Owens Lake, in California's Owens Valley.

Photos of Oakland Estuary, California, 2001 - 2016.

Snapshots of California’s great Central Valley — oil and agriculture, on a massive scale…

Photos from a hundred miles or so of Route 66 in California's Mojave Desert, taken over a couple of decades.

Friends, acquaintances, strangers — in my studio, on the street, at events, just hanging around…

Images from California's Emeryville and West Berkeley in the mid-late 1980's and early 1990's, before gentrification…

Visual experiments — humans and (urban or natural) landscapes combined. Experiments that don’t always work…

Berkeley People's Park Demonstrations, 1991 — A Photo Essay

London is where I first picked up a camera, back in the 1980's; this is a small set of photos from that time and place, another world now…

What amazed me most when I first drove into the Californian deserts some twenty years ago was the junk…

California's Owens Valley and the Range of Light — desert, mountains, snow, sand, dry lakes, and more…

Miscellaneous photos of the urban experience, mostly centered on California's East Bay area (Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, etc.).

Some snapshots of California's Sacramento Delta — mostly of the light and the bridges, both of which draw me here again and again...

The phrase that keeps coming to mind when I see DALL-E 2 generated photos is "machine dreaming" — every image is at least not quite right somehow; some of them are surreally wrong…