* * * I just finished reading The Invention of Nature -- Alexander von Humboldt's New World , by Andrea Wulf, and I so enjoyed ...

* * * At Home & Abroad from John W. Wall on Vimeo . * * *

* * * "All the truly living, at least once, are born again." --Ta-Nehisi Coates from  The Beautiful Struggle The liv...

* * * I started hiking this morning on a thin dirt trail on the windward side of Bolinas Ridge. Visibility was probably around 100 ...

* * * On June 11, two weeks before summer officially arrived, Mt. Tam experienced a ridiculously early "red flag" fire ha...

* * * If you haven't been out to photograph on the reef in a while, as is true in my case, the reality of doing so takes very...

* * * I was surprised to arrive at the gate so early -- a good fifteen minutes before 7 a.m. -- to find a bunch of cars parked and ...

*** Just read in the Marin IJ about this big camera trapping project . It's funny because I've spotted a couple of camera...

* * * When I woke up and saw more than just a wall of fog out my window I decided to take a crack at catching a sunrise up on Ring ...

* * * I always set my clothes and camera gear out in the living room the night before I anticipate leaving on one of my weekend pho...