Since I’m in the fortunate position of being gainfully unemployed during the summer months (I’m a college faculty member who now avoids summer session) and living relatively close to the Pacific Coast, San Francisco, and the Sierra Nevada, summer is photography season for me. The photos posted here will generally reflect these summer themes: I earlier posted a series of images from an early July trip to the Sierra crest near Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite, you’ll see a whole series of San Francisco photographs through a good part of July, and later this summer I should have some new work from the Sierra back-country.

My favorite way to photograph in San Francisco is on foot. A few days ago I spend the better part of an afternoon in the Marina district between Fort Mason and Fort Point with a side trip to the Palace of Fine Arts. (Photographs from this session are currently in the queue.) I frequently wander along the waterfront between the Caltrain station and the Ferry Building, often venturing up into various nearby downtown areas.

My Sierra summer visits include short car-camping trips (like that early July trip mentioned above), short pack trips, and one or more extensive back-country pack trips of a week or more. It looks like this summer I’ll spend some time in the Minarets/Thousand Island Lake area and in the true High Sierra just west of the crest between Cottonwood Lakes and the Tyndall Creek area.