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Imagine photographing stars and star trails under the clear night skies of the Eastern Sierras with the guidance of two masters of night photography! Under the auspices of Star Circle Academy, www.StarCircleAcademy.com , the Alabama Hills Star Circle Workshop will be a chance to hone your night photography skills, learn new skills both behind the camera [...]

Low Tide at Dusk, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is an image taken in the China Beach area of San Francisco Bay as dusk was fading into night. The scene shows mud flats at extreme low tide, facing northwest on an overcast mid-winter evening. I shot bracketed originals and combined six [...]

I love it when academia backs up the gospel we preach!  A recent NY Times article tells the tale of a group of bespecled professors setting aside their blackberries, cell phones, and iPads, and setting off for a multi-day raft trip on the San Juan river.  Experts in brain function and memory, they set out to [...]

Annette, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: The reddish light in this portrait of the beautiful model Annette comes from a parasol she was holding while in a swimming pool. I used a fill flat on the left to add light to her face, and a polarizing filter both to cut [...]

AO guides Mason and Hilary met on our South Fork of the American operation and decided to make it a season without end.  They are engaged and ready for the river of life…….Here they are, two lovebirds who are so enamoured of their rafting love story they busted out the full regalia of river gear [...]

How’s this for a biathlon of fun?  Come up for an American River rafting trip this Saturday, have a tasty dinner at Marco’s Pizza or Cafe Mahjaic (well, eat where you want, I’m just giving a little advice as a local, don’t you know…), and then on Sunday go STOMP GRAPES at David Girard Winery!  [...]

Romance of the Dandelion, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I created this composite image in Photoshop to illustrate a book, Lane Von Herzen’s The Unfastened Heart. Here’s my description of how the image relates to the book: Mariela waits and wonders when Addison will return, or if he will return. In Anna’s [...]

Mason.  He of the flaming rocket tattoo.   Hoster of mid-winter, off-season (possibly off-color, but I’m just guessing) Prom Nights. Secret channeler of The King, navigator of strange inflatable animals, and latest in a long line of AO love affairs (he’s betrothed to another AO guide–oh South Fork, you mysterious mistress of romance and commitement, how [...]

Maya Holikatti, a precocious Folsom 12-year-old born in America to parents from the Indian state of Karnataka, is usually more comfortable in Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt than a sari.

An El Dorado County dog owners group reports that seven years of campaigning for a dog park is paying off.