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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Looking west from the Tomalas Point trail, Point Reyes National Seashore, one very idealized afternoon...
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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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  • 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. 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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  • 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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  • Marin Headlands, Afternoon in May. Quiet.
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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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  • Sonoma County, California. A bit of needed calm between two storms.
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  • The Sonoma Coast supplies something to think about.
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  • The more space you have, the more room to stretch.
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  • This picture has secrets to tell. The longer you look, the more you see.
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  • Ocean Beach, San Francisco, on a foggy day. I found the layers of light to be mesmerizing.
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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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  • The future unfolds with every incoming wave.
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  • A bit of foam paints a soft glow on San Francisco's Ocean Beach.
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  • Study in contrasts, large and small from Hurricane Point on the Big Sur Coast.
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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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  • This is all about light: minimal black with a beam from above. A link between sea and sky.
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  • The fog makes it very quiet. Inspired by JMW Turner, who—among many other things—could paint sound.
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  • Sonoma County Coast. Water and Sand are engaged in an endless conversation. A give-and-take. Here's an invitation to listen in.
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  • Ocean Beach, San Francisco. The silver glow that January does best.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • There was that serrated horizon, and then there was everything/nothing else.
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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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  • Point Reyes National Seashore. A peek through the fog. A receding wave washes the beach clean at every ebb, leaving something new every time.
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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 calm after the storm on Ocean Beach, San Francisco
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  • Sun on the water. What's left after everything else is taken 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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  • The one thing that catches the eye. Everything else fades 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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  • Sonoma County. Apparently a storm is coming over the horizon. Mark Rothko and Rod Serling discuss the possibilities.
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  • When the sea is still / <br />
Silence envelopes the soul / <br />
Wisdom then prevails
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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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  • If a sunbeam reflection had an expression... Inspired by Charlie Chaplin.
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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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  • A quiet moment on Oso Flaco Beach in Central California. A thin line separating sea and sky.
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  • Is the curtain rising or falling? Is it the beginning of the play, or the end?
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Shhhh... This is not a seascape. It's a cloudscape from 35,000 feet. Don't tell anyone.
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