Category Archives: California

Death Valley – A Study in Texture

These photographs were taken in a single session along Badwater Road in the Death Valley National Park in California. An impending storm had given rise to conditions atypical in Death Valley – soft, diffused afternoon light that accentuated the colours on the Black Mountains.                

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Woz

Silicon Valley legend Steve Wozniak (“Woz”) is one of the pioneers of the personal computer revolution. He co-founded Apple Computer in 1976 along with Steve Jobs. It was Woz, the engineering genius, who designed and built the company’s first products, the Apple I and Apple II. I met Woz and his charming wife Janet last…

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Light Capers in Death Valley

Last year I found myself in the middle of a fierce storm in Death Valley, California. After the initial fury subsided, I positioned myself on Westside Road hoping to catch some of the late evening magic, and was suitably rewarded. The gusts were still very strong and these images had to be made handheld at…

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The “Silicon” in Silicon Valley

This blog post is not about making or displaying beautiful photographs. But photography is fundamentally a tool in story-telling, and this is a subject that interests me: Silicon Valley (where I live) and its history. There are numerous accounts available on the web on the development of Silicon Valley. At its core, it is a…

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