
Fall Stroll Through Yosemite National Park
Description: Yosemite National Park is a beautiful place to be when you hit the leaf-peeping season perfectly. Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA, North America
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Description: Yosemite National Park is a beautiful place to be when you hit the leaf-peeping season perfectly. Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA, North America
Description: Brooding. This is what brooding clouds look like. These clouds, they brood. Location: California, USA, North America
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Description: While the ‘standard’ view of the beautiful cliffs from Tunnel View is what most people associate with Yosemite Valley, I rather enjoy the view from the road to Tioga Pass Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Description: It was from this angle that a 1 second clip of mine was used for the pilot introduction of the TV show La Brea. It is a lovely view and Continue Reading →
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 →
Description: Sometimes a drone is a good way to learn things. In this case, The Roslyn Hotel and its annex, once the largest hotel on the West Coast, is seen Continue Reading →
I’ve been filming more video as of late, as you might have noticed, you faithful reader, you. And I’ve put together a quick video (less than 2 minutes) to show Continue Reading →
Description: There is just so much to see in the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Most of it is off-limits to UAVs (drones), but there are a few spots Continue Reading →
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 →
Description: While I’m showing off this city hall building and that state capitol building, let’s throw in another: California’s Capitol Building in Sacramento. Location: Sacramento, California, USA, North America Photograph Copyright Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
Description: At first I was really excited because I got a photo of a pile of rocks that looks like a elephant, with an arch that defines the trunk. But I Continue Reading →
Description: I am finding more and more colorful places around LA as I search for different views of the city, as seen from a drone (flying camera). This bright building side Continue Reading →
Description: A new bridge is being built in LA and along with its elegant design in general comes this cool bike ramp. The circles you see in the distance are on Continue Reading →
Since I purchased a DJI Mavic 3 Cine in January, I’ve been recording more and more aerial footage. While I do market all of it through OverflightStock.com, I thought I Continue Reading →
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 →
Description: The title says it all. Location: Century City, California, USA, North America Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. Image Available For Commercial Licensing (email) Learn photography and explore the world with Far Continue Reading →
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 →
Description: This is the Chevon refinery in Manhattan Beach, California. And it is massive. In the distance is Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) with its iconic structure that used to be Continue Reading →
Description: There is a ton I don’t know about the history of this Sears building and I can feel some Google-research coming on. It’s located in the city of Vernon and Continue Reading →
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 →
Description: The rustier, the better. As long as it’s not in use. This beauty is located in Vernon, which has its own water tower (for another day’s post) but this one Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →