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  • The bridge from across the bay. It seems so quiet from here as thousands of people drive home at the end of the day.
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  • Sonoma County near the line between day and night. If what was shot in the daytime happened at night. If the sun became the moon.
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  • An infinite view speaks like silence.
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  • Fade out Storm One; Fade in Storm Two. From Black Point, the Sea Ranch, Sonoma County, California. A watery sheen, dark sky and a few clouds. Deconstructed. Reconstructed.
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  • West Shore Lake Tahoe Looking East — On The Soft Side.
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  • Marin headlands on one particular day in May. This is living proof that what comes out of the camera is often just the beginning. This was shot an a bright May afternoon. What struck me was the horizon glow. Everything else had to go. And the sun became the moon.
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  • San Mateo County Coast, California, on a certain day in March, 2020: The following day, all California coastal access was closed due to Covid. This was a sort of last hurrah, which I romanticized just a bit and imbued it with hope.
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  • The Sonoma coast in high key, pianissimo. This is an invitation to a long look. After a while you might notice subtle motion.
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  • Looking out to sea from the Sea Ranch, Sonoma County, California. I can make a checkmate argument that this should be in the Essence gallery — refined to the essence of the scene as it is — but then there's the color...
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  • With a nod and a wink to Mark Rothko. What I saw was a streak of sunlight on a dark sea. That's all that mattered. All the rest was stripped away.
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  • The line between what's been and what's next. An aperture to tomorrow. That's what a Western horizon is.
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  • Marin Headlands, Afternoon in May. Quiet.
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  • Point Reyes Peninsula on a afternoon where nothing was clear — except for one thing, which was very clear. I love the interplay of sharp and soft, of texture and smoothness.
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  • Nothing appeals to me more that a streak of sunlight on the horizon and a misty squall way out there. Both at once? Time stops.
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  • Sonoma County Coast: The clouds from a royal procession. I love symmetry and Nature handed it to me on a silver platter.
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  • Sonoma County Coast Seascape, Dusk, Between storms. Just at sunset, Mother Nature reveals what's next. Light follows dark.
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  • For a Spanish Heart who put out to sea. Created on the morning that I learned of the passing of Jazz pianist, Chick Corea. Crystal Silence is one of his early pieces and aptly describes his soul.
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  • The one thing that catches the eye. Everything else fades away...
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  • Sweet burst of youth
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  • One balanced upon the other. Both are mercurial, but at different rates. Therein lies the appeal.
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  • An unfolding of sorts
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  • This made me think of a quiet garden, which I accept at face value. Can't think of any reason why not.
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  • Lake Tahoe West Shore early evening view. The water was still. The camera was moving.
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  • Looking east from the Otago Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand on an enchanted winter day.
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  • Sun on the water. What's left after everything else is taken away.
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  • The calm between the storms at the Sea Ranch, Sonoma County, California. Inspired — again — by Romantics and Rothko. As with both, the longer you look, the more you see.
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  • Sonoma County Coast Seascape. Feeding my fascination with light beams as rays of hope and truth.
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  • Sonoma County. Apparently a storm is coming over the horizon. Mark Rothko and Rod Serling discuss the possibilities.
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  • Capela de Nossa Senhora de Peninha, Parque Natural de Sintra-Cascais, Portugal. Editing as day-for-night adds to the romance. Rarely do I allow a non-natural object in my seascapes, but here an exception seems appropriate. Somewhere out there is a boat.
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  • That bit of time when golden passes through silver on its way to blue at Point Reyes.
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  • Something to rest your eyes on. Look as far as you can see, and you'll see even farther...
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  • Sonoma Coast sunset stretched over time.
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  • Sonoma County Coast Seascape: A form rises from the depths... This was a race against Nature. This apparition occurred while I was driving south on the coast. There was no place to pull over. Frustration turned to jubilation as a pullout finally appeared.
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  • Is the curtain rising or falling? Is it the beginning of the play, or the end?
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  • Sonoma coast one Christmas Eve. The star was in the west this time.
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  • A Big Sur afternoon, inspired by Monet
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  • It simply is. Right now that's all that matters.
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  • Sonoma County Coast: A silent cloud/ship at full sail. To me, there is a connection between sight and sound. Nature said, "Listen to this."
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  • Wonderland. Enter here.
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  • Intentional camera movement sweeping over a northern view of a very calm Lake Tahoe. There are colors here that don't even have names.
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  • Point Reyes National Seashore: As the fog lifted, there was a glow... No one on the trail could see it but me. But it was there.
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  • New Zealand South Island, a motion looking east over the South Pacific.
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  • Lake Tahoe West Shore, dusk, looking east. Intentional Camera Movement.
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  • An endless wander...
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  • A pause, then there's more. After the sun went down there was a secondary glow — better than the first — over the Marin headland hills. Camera motion made it into a dream.
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  • Champagne? A California poppy at the beginning of the season is cause for celebration.
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  • The Golden Gate, Marin County Headlands. In a kettle of fog, golden hour and blue hour mix in a misty brew. Subtle colors abound.
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  • Wisdom within.
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  • Come hither...
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  • Moonlight scraping across the top of a Pacific fog bank over San Francisco suggested a Mark Rothko painting. I took it the rest of the way. (By wild coincidence, this is what was outside the window immediately after watching a documentary on Mark Rothko.)
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  • Sonoma County Coast. A soft approach of a gentle rain. Harking back to my love of 19th century English Romanticism.
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  • West Shore Lake Tahoe, looking east with a sweep of the camera.
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  • View from Lake Tahoe West Shore after sunset, with intentional camera movement.
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  • San Mateo County Coast, California. Calm before another kind of storm. The next day, due to the pandemic, there was no coastal access for months. It seemed right to bring out the calm and smoothness in this scene.
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  • Under a summer moon. Anything's possible here.
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  • A simple statement.
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  • The first Florascape. I believe Ms. O'Keeffe is hiking somewhere in these hills.
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  • A secret place in the Rose Mountains.
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  • A vista with vistas.
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  • A minimal horizon on the northern end of Sonoma County one April day. Only an hour after a threatened storm, Mother Nature changed from a drama queen to a minimalist. How things change...
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  • An unstormy afternoon at Point Reyes. I arrived expecting a dramatic storm. That's what the weather speculators said. What I got was silver on silver and I happily accepted the gift. Some intentional camera movement softened the glow.
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  • The essence of the view from Nepenthe on the Big Sur coast. Fog bank stretching the full horizon. Muted sunbeam reflection stretching to the horizon.
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  • Sonoma County, California. A bit of needed calm between two storms.
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  • A formal invitation to...
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  • Point Reyes National Seashore, looking west. It's the sparkle on the horizon that called to me, and the colors that reveal themselves on a long look.
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  • Pescadero Magic: Sunbeams leading a path to infinity. An invitation to walk on water.
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  • Summer fog bank on the Big Sur coast, pared down to its essence. There's the sea, the sky, and the fog... and the rich deep blue that acts like a magnet for me.
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  • A moving impression of Point Reyes National Seashore, looking at the cliffs over Drake's Bay at dusk.
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  • Sonoma County Coast Seascape: The stormy sky becomes a painting. Mother Nature's birthday present to me. Inspired by English Romantic art, suggesting that I may have been born in the wrong century.
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  • When the sea is still / <br />
Silence envelopes the soul / <br />
Wisdom then prevails
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  • Sonoma Coast. A sunset refection off of window glass.
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  • Marin County Coast Seascape.
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  • Sonoma County Coast: If John Constable had been here, he would have painted it. This happened on December 24. A Christmas gift, for which I am grateful.
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  • It's time...
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  • The more space you have, the more room to stretch.
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  • Looking south from Point Reyes, the Farallon Islands on a silver platter.
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  • If Seurat and Rothko had collaborated on a minimalist seascape... I'm inspired by both and can only imagine what would have happened, had they worked together.
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  • There was a storm approaching as I was driving up  the Sonoma coast. It was late afternoon and the sky was ... Blue. Really, really blue.
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  • If a sunbeam reflection had an expression... Inspired by Charlie Chaplin.
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  • Nature's symmetry between sea and sky. It only lasted a moment. On the California coast, sometimes silver happens in July.
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  • Purity in White.
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  • Sonoma County Coast Seascape: A statuesque squall. A sculpture. A siren.
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  • Squalls approaching Devil's Slide, San Mateo County, California. Nothing more awe-inspiring for me than watching a storm approach. Especially in silver-gray.
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  • The Sonoma County skies open up come rain or shine—or both at once. This coincides with my love of architecture. Nature's perfect A-Frame.
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  • A quiet moment on Oso Flaco Beach in Central California. A thin line separating sea and sky.
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  • This picture has secrets to tell. The longer you look, the more you see.
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  • Lake Tahoe remaining still under a moving camera. If Turner were alive today, would he do intentional camera movement? I believe he would.
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  • Looking west from the Tomalas Point trail, Point Reyes National Seashore, one very idealized afternoon...
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  • To an open question.
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  • Golden Gate with just a hint of bridge. Intentional camera motion from 12 miles away as the gull flies.
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  • Poppy Horn
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  • Sonoma coast. A storm approaches. This is the answer to the question, "how blue can you get?" A broader view of another picture in this series.
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  • The moment has come.
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  • From just south of Windy Gap, Point Reyes National Seashore. Inspired by my Muse, who was standing by my side. She, like this horizon, is surrounded by a soft glow.
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  • Tripping the light fantastic on the Sonoma coast.
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  • Some mornings, the weather moves right along...
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  • First out. Last in.
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  • Suppose the glow through the mist on the horizon was really the edge of a galaxy...
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  • A matter of scale.
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  • A squall approaches the north tower.
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