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These photo pages are intended to to be a time-out, for anyone who happens by. The general subject is my appreciation for attractive landscapes, wherever they are found.
This website is admittedly an outlet for my writing & editing compulsions, as well as messing around with digital photos, and I'm a history nut. (For artistic background see Epilogue)
Intellectual Property Dept. - except where cited (e.g., web photos), all images shown on this site were taken by me, and I am responsible for any comments regarding the photos or text, but you'll find no controversy here. I strive to get historical info right, via correlation from multiple sources.
History - I began posting digital photos in October, 2001, and among the first pages was a Carson Pass walk to Lake Winnemucca in late September, with 24 hikers, facilitated by my friend Rich. It was the start of a my involvement with his hiking group, which after the 2006 summit walk at White Mountain (14,447 ft. ) coalesced into the East Sierra fall trip group, with members from the monthly hiking group.
Security Dept. - I'm pretty sure visitors consist mostly of family & hiking friends. The PC dedicated to this website never spends any time on the internet, except to upload photos.
2025 - Recently posted photos from the Eastern Sierra Nevada trips from 2010 to 2022
In fall 2023, Rich had to retire from hiking and he is now living in the Auburn, Ca. area, with his more than capable wife Linda. Early in '24 I took over the hiking group facilitation role and we're still going, as of fall '25.
Contact info - Should you have comments/questions, feel free to email me at mdimage@elkgrove.net
Privacy concerns - should you be the subject of one of my photos who prefers to not to be shown, just let me know.
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Epilogue - Artistic influences
My main interest from my earliest camera days was in landscape photography. My first set of photos were of bare hardwood forests in winter in the Brandywine River Valley (Wilmington, Delaware), against lovely fall sunsets.
A kind person gave me an old Minolta SLR when I was 18 but it was heavy and soon (living in Atlanta) I had a pawn shop Pentax 1000, a great camera. I was off and going but eventually was dissatisfied with 35mm results when printed out. Once digital cameras came out around 2000, with images now seen on a PC screen, I started buying the Canon Powershot G series...G2, G6, G10, G12 and finally G16. Some of the Eastern Sierra trip photos were taken with a Canon DSLR Rebel T6i.
As for artistic influences, I learned a lot over the years from going to museums wherever I lived, or visited, looking at landscape artists' depictions of scenery. I also grew up looking at National Geographic, or later Sierra Club calendars and I guess I have a collection of landscape photography too, so I was taught by others.
I came to see that the aesthetic principles are identical for a good landscape painting or photo.
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