I took far too many photographs on March 13. Brian and Nancy Morganti and I got up around sunrise and headed up Whitney Portal Road… [Read More]
March 13, 2010 Saline Valley
The best thing about Saline Valley is its nothingness. Well, that’s not really true—this basin has everything a large desert basin should have. It has… [Read More]
March 12, 2010 Searles and Panamint valleys
On this Friday I met up with Brian and Nancy Morganti for a weekend to be filled with spectacular desert scenery and photography fun. We… [Read More]
March 8, 2010 Southern Death Valley
My friends Brian and Nancy drove from their home in Pennsylvania to California — to vacation in the desert! I had been pestering Brian for… [Read More]
December 16, 2009 Eureka Dunes
It had been perhaps a dozen years since I had visited the Eureka Valley in eastern California. I have been here a few times in… [Read More]
December 15 and 16, 2009 Owens Valley and vicinity
I elected to do a two-day road trip from L.A. to the Owens Valley region in mid-December. Anytime is a good time to visit the… [Read More]
December 2, 2009 The Mighty Mojave
The Mojave Desert is photography dreamland, if you are into simple, bleak, stark, barren and empty. And, the impact of man adds a few intriguing… [Read More]
October 27, 2009 Neenach, CA Wind Chase
A rare full day off from work + windstorm forecast = local chase to the desert. A strong NW jet stream was moving over SoCal… [Read More]
July 2, 2009 Redbird, WY supercell
My target area for today was generally Crook County, WY, which is in the northeastern corner of the state. Severe chances appeared to be good,… [Read More]
June 25, 2009 Badlands “Bad” Storm Day
That’s “Bad” as in “yuck”. The target was Rapid City upon departure from Mitchell — an easy 3 or 4 hour drive on I-90. A… [Read More]
June 21, 2009 Ziebach County, SD supercell
This was the first full chase day for the Tour 6 guests, and my chase team of Chuck Doswell, Rob Petitt, and Doug Raflik. On… [Read More]
May 25, 2009 Northern TX Panhandle
Chase prospects for May 25th looked a little better than previous days, down in the TX Panhandle. We began the day in Fort Morgan, and… [Read More]
May 12, 2009 SE TX PH severe cells
May 12 wound up rather disappointing, though we wound up on strong storm cells from about Memphis to Childress to Quanah. Prior to initiation, we… [Read More]
May 9, 2009 Llano, TX bust chase
Yesterday was a very long day, a chase from Emporia, KS, to Brownwood, TX. Today we began a lot closer to where we the action… [Read More]
February 9, 2009 Los Angeles Skyline and San Gabriel Mountains snow
I only work at LAX once a month, but of late the days that I do work there wind up being rather interesting weatherwise. A… [Read More]