Sunset In The Sky
Description: Sometimes the best seat is looking away from the sun. All the beautiful colors stacked on the horizon. That is Mono Lake just under the wing. Location: California, USA, Continue Reading →
Tag: California
Classic Ocean Sunset
Description: What’s not to love about watching the sun slowly sink behind clouds and into the ocean. Growing up on the West Coast, this is mostly what I know of Continue Reading →
Playing With Aerial Time-Lapse
Not every day has to be super productive, nor every video epic. Sometimes, you go out and film for the fun of it and then slap those videos together because Continue Reading →
Why Not One More Half Dome Picture?
Description: One more Half Dome photo, you say? I have you covered! Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA, North America Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey
Sunrise And Half Dome
Description: A slightly different take on the photo from the other day with Half Dome in Yosemite National Park at sunrise. Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA, North America Photograph Copyright Continue Reading →
Redwood Forest Floor Exploration
While those gigantic redwood trees might tower to the skies, they start out on the forest floor. There’s a lot to see down there, if you take the time (just Continue Reading →
5 Minutes Of Yosemite Valley Calm
They say five minutes of calm, natural sounds and visuals will lower your blood pressure, decrease cholesterol, make your hair more lustrous, drop any excess weight you might want to Continue Reading →
Classic Half Dome View At Sunrise
Description: As luck would have it, I snagged a last minute campsite in Yosemite Valley for Wednesday. That lead to a LOT of video taping, some more VR180 footage composing and Continue Reading →
Bombay Beach TVs
Description: Bombay Beach used to be right on the shore of the Salton Sea, over 200 feet below sea level. It was once a swank beach hot-spot where the likes of Continue Reading →
Miles Above Yosemite National Park On A Perfect Day
Description: This used to be an almost weekly view for me, or at least the chance to see it (clouds willing). While I love living in California, I do miss the Continue Reading →
Fern Canyon Video
Tight on the heels of the last still frame post of Fern Canyon comes the sequel: Fern Canyon the Video! It’s four minutes of relaxing views inside the canyon with Continue Reading →
Fern Canyon
Description: It’s easy to see why Fern Canyon in Redwoods National & State Parks is a favorite for so many people. Too many, actually…they had to institute a permit system and Continue Reading →
High Above The Redwoods
Description: I am freshly returned from a trip to the Redwoods of California and what an enjoyable great trip it was. Because you can’t fly a drone from a National Park Continue Reading →
Eastern Sierra Torrential Downpour
Description: Brooding. This is what brooding clouds look like. These clouds, they brood. Location: California, USA, North America
Freaky Looking Sunset Over The Sierra
Description: I don’t fly as much as I used to and this would be one of the things I miss about so many flights: chance encounters with natural beauty. In this Continue Reading →
Los Angeles Sunrise From The Valley
Description: Trying to plan a photo like this might make me a bit bonkers so I am glad serendipity was on my side. After taking off from Burbank airport I was Continue Reading →
Cholla Sunset
Description: It’s so fuzzy! But don’t get too close to cholla cactus, they are vicious. Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA, North America Camera: Canon 7D Mark Photograph Copyright Peter West Continue Reading →
Violet-green Swallow at Mono Lake
Description: It’s hard to catch the Swallows at Mono Lake while they take a break, but patience is rewarded. Here a Violet-green Swallow takes a pause before darting away. Location: Mono Continue Reading →
The Merced River And Yosemite
Description: Fall in Yosemite is a great time of year but always chancy. You never know if the snows will show up of if the valley will be covered in fog. Continue Reading →
Thunderhead Over Yosemite
Description: Check it out: clouds Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA, North America Camera: Canon 7D Mark II + 28-300mm L Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. Image Available For Commercial Licensing (email) Continue Reading →
Close In With The Green Things In Life
Description: Not all the views in Yosemite are large vistas of towering cliffs. It’s the little things, the details, that make it all so very interesting. Location: Yosemite National Park, California, Continue Reading →
Long View Of Bridal Veil Falls
Description: If you take the road to Tioga Pass in Yosemite National Park from the bottom of the valley, stop right after tunnel and look back for your last view of Continue Reading →
Downpour Along The Sierra
Description: Taken from a perch above Mono Lake, this is about the perfect distance to watch thunderclouds roll by. Location: Mono Lake, California, USA, North America Camera: Canon 7D Mark II Photograph Continue Reading →
Targeting Tufas
Description: Mono Lake in the summer is brutal but the tufas are a refreshingly different sight. Location: Mono Lake, California, USA, North America Camera: Canon 7D Mark II Photograph Copyright Peter West Continue Reading →
Great Egret Looking Great
Description: Believe it or not, this Great Egret ‘photo’ is a frame grab from a video. An 8K video to be precise. The extra pixels used by the 8K frame (7680×4320 Continue Reading →
Looking Down The Crane
Description: One advantage of having a ‘longer lens’ on a drone (Mavic 3 with the 161mm lens) is the ability to capture images that were very difficult before. In this case, Continue Reading →
The Beautiful Pasadena City Hall
Description: I’ve been getting out more to explore around LA and that has lead me to Pasadena and its beautiful city hall complex. Location: Pasadena, California, USA, North America Photograph Copyright Continue Reading →
Pasadena City Hall & Downtown LA
Description: You likely haven’t seen LA from this angle in Pasadena. With the help of the DJI Mavic 3 7x zoom lens, I was able to capture this image unique to Continue Reading →
That Is One Busy Beach
Description: Santa Monica beach and pier on a sunny and hot Saturday afternoon. Location: Santa Monica, California, USA, North America Camera: DJI Mavic 3 Cine DJI Lens Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. Continue Reading →
Hollywood Sign
Description: It’s a sign!!! Location: Hollywood, California, USA, North America Camera: DJI Mavic 3 Cine DJI Lens Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. Image Available For Commercial Licensing (email) Learn photography and explore Continue Reading →
Pasadena At Blue Hour
Description: I know ‘blue hour’ is not an actual hour, but it is certainly time when the indirect light we receive from the sun shades the Earth in blue tinted light. Continue Reading →
Hollywood’s Walk Of Fame
Description: All the stars are shining. Location: Hollywood, California, USA, North America Camera: DJI Mavic 3 Cine Hasselblad Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. Image Available For Commercial Licensing (email) Learn photography Continue Reading →
Parking Lot Patterns
Description: A couple years ago this place was a Covid testing site with cars snaking all around the rows. Location: California, USA, North America Camera: DJI Mavic 3 Cine Hasselblad Photograph Continue Reading →
More Water Towers Coming Soon
Description: This is your fair warning that I am once again gravitating to aerial photos of water towers. You were spared my last obsessive bender, but I fear you will not Continue Reading →