East Bay Regional Park District wants your best pictures taken in the district’s parks. If you win, you earn the right to have the district decorate its Web site with the fruits of your labor at no compensation whatsoever. Of…

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I did a merely mildly excruciating hike Sunday at Henry Coe State Park — details to come Monday morning, but I wanted to post this picture I took: It’s the face of Henry Willard Coe from the relief sculpture at…

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Dan Mitchell says his equipment measures up. Lenses: I try not to succumb to Lens Fever, so I use a small set of good Canon lenses: EF 17-40mm f/4 L, EF 24-105mm f/4 IS L, EF 70-200mm f/4 L, and…

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… while they were in your pants pocket? Yesterday on our road trip I started feeling this burning sensation in my pocket … I thought at first it was the sun coming through the car window, but it kept getting…

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The weekend before last, my pictures from one local redwood forest got rave reviews. This weekend, another redwood forest — arguably much more spectacular — and I get yawns. For good reason, mind you, the pictures from the previous week…

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Stumbled upon Wild Things Photography, found many pretty pictures. The shooter is John Hyde of Juneau, Alaska.

Made a quick dash out to the high country near Tioga Pass on Saturday. More pix here.

A clear sky before dawn has a certain almost-purple cast that seems to be visible only on backcountry camp-outs. A sample: This one is from a camp-out I did last summer at Y Lake in the Emigrant Wilderness. The camera…

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Some of the California types oughta be able to figure this one out.