Being based in Los Angeles is wonderful, since I’m a short drive away from a wide variety of terrain. Snow-capped mountains, isolated beaches and rolling hills - really an amazing variety!

I’ve been venturing out into the desert here and there over the past few months and wanted to share a few of my favorite desert landscape photos. As you can see from these photos, even the deserts can vary quite a bit from one another!

While I was in Baja California Sur this past December-January, I visited with Cuco and Pilar at Rancho Pilar to see their puppies, which I photographed last year. Pilar got the puppies after her long time companion, Chata, who I photographed in 2006, passed away.

Unfortunately, the unvaccinated replacement puppies died soon after I left last year and they had two new dogs greet me as I pulled up at their open-air homestead. One of the dogs, a very timid, tan mutt, had an eye infection. Luckily, I had some antibiotic ointment in my pack and was able to convince the little guy to let me help him out. When I returned a few days later, his eye cleared up and was re-opened, but the infection had left him blind in that eye.

I just got back from a third trip through Baja California Sur, the thin peninsula below California that is detached from the rest of mainland Mexico. I’m still sorting through the images that I captured while I was there, but wanted to share a few scenes from Baja in the meantime.

This was the first trip that I actually used a tripod for some landscape images. I’ve stayed away from them in the past, as I like to keep things fluid when I frame my shots. Nonetheless, I gave it a try - here are a few that I’ve offloaded from my memory cards since I returned yesterday:

Natural Salt

You had to be there

Four Wheeled Gringos

Southern Tip

If you haven’t been to Baja, you might enjoy some of my Baja photos from last year.

I was recently contacted by Kurt Daradics to photograph the first “Digital Family Reunion” at the Skirball Cultural Center. The event brought together the Southern California technology and business communities for the holidays. Attendees included industry leaders in education, media, entertainment, finance, publishing, venture funding, as well as software and web development.