Category Archives: California.jpg) “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery Playing… Experimenting… Dabbling… Creating… Exploring… Do those words resonate with you? If not, why then? How… .jpg) “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson On this particular trip, I found myself just as interested in exploring the local landscape as I was in gathering all the details for a project I was working on…. .jpg) “The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson There can be at times, if you let it overcome you, a somewhat cinematic feel to the landscape as it unfolds itself in front of you. When I find myself out on these journeys on a mission to “capture the light”… .jpg) “No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being” – Ansel Adams I spent the better part of the afternoon in total awe of the human spirit that was driving the many climbers scattered along the trails leading… .jpg) “Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.” – Brenda Ueland Just before diving into my journey of the coast of California known as “Big Sur”, I decided to stop off at this cool little Mission just outside of Carmel to explore the interior. These kinds of churches are always a… .jpg) “I’ve learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” – Unknown I guess I have been climbing a bit of my own mountain lately. That could be one reason that I haven’t been posting as much lately. Only so many precious…  “Fresh beauty opens one’s eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up… .jpg) “We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” – Edith Lovejoy Pierce Alright 2011……you’ve overstayed your welcome and its time we say goodbye. Its time to bring in a new fresh year,… .jpg) “My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had – every day I’m learning something new.” – Richard Branson That is precisely why I found myself in San Diego on this particular trip….to continue my education (and of course, capture a few images… .jpg) “ Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson That makes me feel a little bit better! Does that include the thousands of time-lapse captures I have filed though? Somehow I don’t think so……. Yosemite…the valley…..lots to see, and the bike is a pretty cool way to do it right. I had a… 
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