I was part of the Inside Columbia magazine’s 080808 Photo Essay, which was printed in the September 2008 issue that just came out.  The idea was to capture ‘one moment’ in time, on August 8, 2008, at 8:08am.

Here is the shot that I submitted and which was included.  I didn’t really have an idea of what I wanted to capture that day for submission, and then I was running late.  I wasn’t going to have enough time to really scope out a good spot, so I just started driving towards work and hoped that something would happen.  And of course it did!  I pass this row of trees outside the Katy Apartments on Forum Boulevard every day, and I never noticed the sprinklers before.  But that morning, the sun backlit the spray and it looked really beautiful.  I made up my mind in an instant and pulled into the lot.

I have also been working on some of the photos that I took way back in April on my fantastic trip to San Francisco and other areas of Northern California.  I have not had a lot of time to work on these in the past few months, but I have every intention of finishing them someday!  Here are some of the breathtaking vistas along the Pacific Coast Highway in Big Sur.  Some of this area was devastated this summer by wildfires.

This last shot was in San Gregorio, California, rather than in Big Sur.

One of my dream houses is small and midcentury modern, with lots of windows and bookshelves, on a craggy cliff in Big Sur, overlooking the Pacific.  I live in it in my head.