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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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  • 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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  • Looking east from the Otago Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand on an enchanted winter day.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Looking west from the Tomalas Point trail, Point Reyes National Seashore, one very idealized afternoon...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Tripping the light fantastic on the Sonoma coast.
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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 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 County Coast Seascape. Feeding my fascination with light beams as rays of hope and truth.
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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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  • Sun on the water. What's left after everything else is taken away.
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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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  • 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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  • Sonoma County. Apparently a storm is coming over the horizon. Mark Rothko and Rod Serling discuss the possibilities.
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  • Is the curtain rising or falling? Is it the beginning of the play, or the end?
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  • One balanced upon the other. Both are mercurial, but at different rates. Therein lies the appeal.
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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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  • When the sea is still / <br />
Silence envelopes the soul / <br />
Wisdom then prevails
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  • If a sunbeam reflection had an expression... Inspired by Charlie Chaplin.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • It simply is. Right now that's all that matters.
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  • Suppose the glow through the mist on the horizon was really the edge of a galaxy...
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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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  • A storm approaches the San Mateo County coast. An unseen artist beams chalk drawings onto the sea.
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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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  • A Big Sur afternoon, inspired by Monet
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  • Marin County Coast Seascape.
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  • Sonoma coast one Christmas Eve. The star was in the west this time.
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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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  • Pescadero Magic: Sunbeams leading a path to infinity. An invitation to walk on water.
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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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  • Looking south from Point Reyes, the Farallon Islands on a silver platter.
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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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  • Sonoma County Coast Seascape: A statuesque squall. A sculpture. A siren.
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  • Is it the calm before the storm or the storm before the calm? Or both?
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • An endless wander...
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  • Wonderland. Enter here.
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  • A secret place in the Rose Mountains.
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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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  • Shhhh... This is not a seascape. It's a cloudscape from 35,000 feet. Don't tell anyone.
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  • Sunbeam scrapes the sea at Point Reyes. I've always liked chalk drawings on black paper. Especially quick ones.
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  • This is all about light: minimal black with a beam from above. A link between sea and sky.
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  • Study in contrasts, large and small from Hurricane Point on the Big Sur Coast.
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