The Beethoven Monument in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.

This photo was taken at a street fair in San Carlos, CA.

Princeton harbor at sunset. This is one of the reasons why I like living in Northern California.

I took this photo while walking around my neighborhood. I was attracted by the burst of color against the cobblestones.

This is a nature walkway along San Francisco bay. I like the converging lines.

Converging point of view lines under the San Mateo bridge, rendered in black and white.

This is a pattern formed by a wooden bread basket in the DeYoung Museum gift shop.

A beach walker at Half Moon Bay State Beach is accentuated by sunlight bursting through the clouds.

A December sunset at Pigeon Point lighthouse, north of Santa Cruz, CA.

This is a photo of Wonder Lake in Denali National Park, Alaska. It was taken just as the sun was setting, about 11:30 PM. The striking glow coming off the mountain range onto the lake is called Alpenglow.

A classic Southwestern sunset silhouettes a giant Saguaro cactus In Arizona, near where I grew up.

This is the famed Gaudi House in Barcelona, photographed at night.

This is a wooden sidewalk with railings casting their shadows in Jerome, Arizona, a famed ghost town.

I took this photo in Red Square, Moscow, during my business trip to the USSR in 1989. The statue is right outside St. Basil’s cathedral.

These brooding mountains, home to many a legend, are located outside of Phoenix, Arizona in what used to be untouched desert. Unfortunately, that area is now sub-divided and blighted by civilization.

I took this photo of a merchant at the famed floating market near Bangkok, Thailand.

This photo was taken at a park overlooking Land’s End in San Francisco. It’s almost a naturally colorless photo.

While walking through a warehouse area in San Francisco, I noticed the reflections of a corrugated metal building off some silvered windows across the street. It reminded me of a Japanese print so I took the photo.

Photographed while coming in for a landing in Florida.

On the street where I live in San Mateo. This is how it actually looked that evening.

At the Naples Botanical Gardens, Naples, Florida.

Photographed just after a rain storm.

I saw this growing along an urban hiking trail.

A bit of lavender poking up out of a body of muted colors.

Along a hiking trail in the East Bay.

Interesting effect created with a slow shutter and a little camera shake.

One of many scenic lakes to be found while hiking in Banff National Park.

Lake Louise is a place of spiritual beauty. I just happened to take this photo of an unknown person exalting along the shoreline.

There are so many great photo ops along the shores of Lake Louise. Here’s one that I took advantage of.

A view of Moraine Lake, in my opinion the most scenic of all the glacial lakes in Banff National Park.

Canoeing on Moraine Lake.

Taken during my visit to the Columbia Glacier in Banff National Park.

While hiking down a trail I witnessed a storm at a lower elevation. This is the first time that I ever saw a rainbow formed below my vantage point.

Exploring a meadow above the tree line. The young hiker is my son Alan.

Landscape in Northern New Mexico, July 2019.

Colorful shutters on a house in Santa Fe, NM.

An adobe house in New Mexico, given the black and white treatment.

I like the arrangement of the objects in this New Mexico still life.

Ruins of an indigenous people’s dwelling in Bandelier National Monument.

For me the essence of Santa Fe: weathered wooden doors, adobe architecture, and chilies hanging to dry in the sun.

The Houses of Parliament reflected in the River Thames just after sunset.

A photo of Westminster Abbey, London. I like the mix of old and new with the airplane flying over the 1000 year-old building.

One of the flowers in the beautiful gardens at Hampton Court Palace.

A street performer in Trafalgar Square, London.

This strolling musician was photographed at Hampton Court Palace.

Mt. Rainier with stream.

Reflection Lake.

Mt Rainier with flowers.

Mt. Rainier trail with hikers.

One of the many beautiful wildflowers growing on the slopes of Mt. Rainier.

A popular meadow near Mt. Rainier.

Snow patch near Mt. Rainier.