Hiking To Emerald Lake In Sequoia National Park
Lately I have been missing the high up places, big trees and alpine lakes. On Saturday I packed up a quick camping/hiking kit as it was supposed to be a Continue Reading →
Crazy for Poppies
Description: Back in the Spring, when the California Poppies are popping in the poppy fields. Location: Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve State Natural Reserve, California, USA, North America Photograph Copyright Continue Reading →
12 Splendid Photos From A Real Human Photographer
If you still value real photos from real humans, I’ve got an excellent 2025 calendar for you! It’s not mine, it’s my friend Caleb’s and I enjoy his photography so Continue Reading →
The Oddest Of Street Art
Description: Who’s to say it’s not art? Sure, it appears to be coded annotations of cables beneath the concrete and which business is which, but it can be art too. Continue Reading →
The New iPhone Satellite Messaging Feature Tested On National Park Trails
A while ago Apple introduced the ability to contact emergency services from your iPhone via a satellite. This is a big deal for those who head away from cell towers Continue Reading →
Emerald Lake Fall Colors
Description: It’s getting cold in the high up places (even if it was 100°F here today in LA). Location: Emerald Lake, Sequoia National Park, California, USA, North America Photograph copyright Continue Reading →
The New Workspace
Description: It’s been eons since I had a solid workspace in a garage. Making due has worked fine in a garage that is just big enough for the cars. But Continue Reading →
Jeep Grand Cherokee Camper Semi-Conversion – Genesis
Fresh off the Prius Camper build, I’m taking it upon myself to (non-destructively) turn my 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee into a camper, of sorts. The Jeep is certainly an upgrade Continue Reading →
Hiking To Emerald Lake In Sequoia National Park
Lately I have been missing the high up places, big trees and alpine lakes. On Saturday I packed up a quick camping/hiking kit as it was supposed to be a Continue Reading →
Aster Lake High In The Sierra
Description: A recent hike had me blissfully exploring a part of Sequoia National Park above 9,000′. In that alpine zone the lakes are spotted all over little dips in the Continue Reading →
Sequoia National Forest Sunset
Description: High up, over the rolling hills that lead to Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks, the setting sun makes everything a little more placid. Location: Miramonte, California, USA, North Continue Reading →
Rain Squalls Over Death Valley
Description: Upon leaving Death Valley National Park this Spring the weather turned a bit squally and sprinkled the valley (which is over the hills) with one last drop of drops Continue Reading →
Rust Reclaims Mining Equipment
Description: The mining equipment in Death Valley National Park often sits where it last was used with time doing its part to erode man’s efforts. Location: Death Valley National Park, Continue Reading →
Mosaic Canyon Scale
Description: The scale everything in Death Valley is on the order of eons and ages. The hills are tilted over tens of thousands of year to create the shapes we Continue Reading →
Apple’s Upcoming Hearing Aid Feature For The AirPod Pro 2 Sounds Good, But Real Hearing Aids Are More Comfortable And Less Intrusive
It’s a long title, I know. Apple’s new AirPods Pro 2 are coming out and they have a (not quite yet FDA-approved) hearing aid function. On the surface, this is Continue Reading →
Salt Basin Criss Cross
Description: It’s good to get out and look at the world differently. And it’s hard to do when you revisit a place you have been to a few times. This Continue Reading →
Mount Wilson’s 60″ Telescope
Description: Now this is what you think of when someone says “big telescope”. While it is not the largest in the world, it is world-class and over 100 years old. Continue Reading →
IoT Fatigue
I honestly love the potential all the handy gadgets and interconnectedness the Internet of Things (IoT) promises. I have been sucked in and while I am no longer first to Continue Reading →
Puget Sound Abstract
Description: The fiery colors of sunset illuminate the Olympic Mountains across Puget Sound. Or maybe those are the Cascades as seen from Whidbey Island. Hard to say, dang blurry photos. Continue Reading →
Gourd Season Is Nigh
Description: At the farmer’s markets in Skagit Valley, the gourds have sprung to the shelves. Location: Skagit Valley, Washington, USA, North America Photograph copyright Peter West Carey. All rights reserved.
No Hands In Crab Tank, Duh!
Description: Sometimes the photo explains itself. Location: Skagit County, Washington, USA, North America Photograph copyright Peter West Carey. All rights reserved.
Rows And Rows Of Grapes
Description: Such pretty rows of wine grapes being grown in the hills of California. Which sometimes has me thinking about all the talk of water usage and restrictions and how Continue Reading →
I Can Use Your Help With An MS Bike Ride This Weekend
This coming weekend I need your help with making my 10th (or so) MS Bike Ride a fundraising success. The MS Bike Ride (formerly the MS150) is a national effort Continue Reading →
Rural Nepali Home Still Life
Description: Inside a small one room home near Chitwan National Park in Nepal. Location: Bharatpur, Nepal, Asia Photograph copyright Peter West Carey. All rights reserved.
Globs Of Gharials
Description: Gharials are a member of the crocodile family and are fish-eaters living in rivers of Nepal and India. This tangle of crocs is found at a breading center in Continue Reading →
Reef Shark B&W
Description: Under the waters of Hawai’i, down where the sharks swim. Location: Oahu, Hawai’i, USA Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. All rights reserved.
Alpenglow In Haa Valley
Description: It was the second to last night of our Bhutan photo tour in 2013 when the snows started in the Haa Valley of Bhutan. A bit beautiful at first Continue Reading →
The Last Orange Grove In The San Fernando Valley
Description: I had read about the orange grove pictured below first in the LA Times. I’ve also driven by it once or twice. It seemed like such an oddity (“How Continue Reading →
Death Valley Is All About Patterns
Description: In looking back through a few days spent in Death Valley over the Winter, I keep finding more and more images of endless patterns. Sometimes repeating directly, but also Continue Reading →
Fan Out
Description: Easy lay the patterns in Death Valley’s Eureka Dunes. Location: Death Valley National Park, California, USA, North America Photograph copyright Peter West Carey. All rights reserved.
The Golden Gate Bridge And Moon
Description: I wasn’t in San Francisco to get a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge, and certainly not with the moon in it. Normally you have to plan for an Continue Reading →
Less Bugs, More Grass
Description: After some complaints about the sheer number of bugs on yesterday’s photo, here’s a placid photo of nothing but grass and a tree. Just ignore the bugs that might Continue Reading →
Road Trip Carnage
Description: It’s not a long enough roadtrip if you don’t capture alllll the bugs. Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. All rights reserved.
PCH At Dusk
Description: A quiet evening out on the Pacific Coast Highway after sunset. Location: Pacific Coast Highway, California, USA, North America Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. All rights reserved.
Yosemite In Winter
Description: One of the joys of Yosemite in the winter is the relative ease with which you can find an open campsite at the last minute. Sure, it will be Continue Reading →
Wangdue Phodrang Dzong At Night
Description: Let me help you with that title. Wangdue Phograng is the name of both a district and the capital of that district in Bhutan. Dzong is the name given Continue Reading →