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  • Sonoma Coast sunset stretched over time.
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  • West Shore Lake Tahoe Looking East — On The Soft Side.
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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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  • Lake Tahoe West Shore early evening view. The water was still. The camera was moving.
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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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  • That bit of time when golden passes through silver on its way to blue at Point Reyes.
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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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  • Lake Tahoe West Shore, dusk, looking east. Intentional Camera Movement.
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  • Sonoma Coast. A sunset refection off of window glass.
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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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  • 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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  • New Zealand South Island, a motion looking east over the South Pacific.
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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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  • Golden Gate with just a hint of bridge. Intentional camera motion from 12 miles away as the gull flies.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Is it the calm before the storm or the storm before the calm? Or both?
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  • Looking east from the Otago Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand on an enchanted winter day.
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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 one thing that catches the eye. Everything else fades away...
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  • A Big Sur afternoon, inspired by Monet
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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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  • 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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  • Original photo taken on the Big Sur coast on a very significant day when all aspects of life — good and bad — were in full play. It's the glow on the horizon that matters most.
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  • Pescadero Magic: Sunbeams leading a path to infinity. An invitation to walk on water.
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  • Sun on the water. What's left after everything else is taken away.
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  • One balanced upon the other. Both are mercurial, but at different rates. Therein lies the appeal.
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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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  • Sonoma County. Apparently a storm is coming over the horizon. Mark Rothko and Rod Serling discuss the possibilities.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • If a sunbeam reflection had an expression... Inspired by Charlie Chaplin.
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  • When the sea is still / <br />
Silence envelopes the soul / <br />
Wisdom then prevails
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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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  • 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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  • Original photo taken on the Big Sur coast on a very significant day when all aspects of life — good and bad — were in full play. It's the glow on the horizon that matters most.
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  • Somewhere over Marin County. Indeterminate altitude; indeterminate destination. It's all about the journey.
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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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  • 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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  • Looking west from the Tomalas Point trail, Point Reyes National Seashore, one very idealized afternoon...
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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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  • 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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  • Something to rest your eyes on. Look as far as you can see, and you'll see even farther...
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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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  • Is the curtain rising or falling? Is it the beginning of the play, or the end?
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  • Sonoma County, California. A bit of needed calm between two storms.
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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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  • Sonoma coast one Christmas Eve. The star was in the west this time.
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  • Marin Headlands, Afternoon in May. Quiet.
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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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  • 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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  • The more space you have, the more room to stretch.
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  • It simply is. Right now that's all that matters.
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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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  • This picture has secrets to tell. The longer you look, the more you see.
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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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  • An endless wander...
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  • A secret place in the Rose Mountains.
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  • Wonderland. Enter here.
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  • A vista with vistas.
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  • Under a summer moon. Anything's possible here.
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  • The first Florascape. I believe Ms. O'Keeffe is hiking somewhere in these hills.
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