The unseasonably warm temps with plenty of sunshine the past few days calls for a colorful and warm picture. Here's a willet cruising a...

The backlit shape of a male northern elephant seal at sunset. This is certainly not my traditional style of photography, but they have a wo...

A sanderling checking out an arthropod shell along Limantour Beach in Point Reyes. Unfortunately for the bird, there didn't appear to b...

We had a great weekend trip camping in Salt Point State Park, which is a gem of a park on the Sonoma Coast. On our first morning there we h...

The voting results for the 2010 Defenders of Wildlife photo contest have been released, and thanks to your votes, my image of Tomales Bay St...

In one of the shorebird ID books I have, they describe the marbled godwit as being the subject of many close encounters for beachcombers on ...

Watching these birds attempt to stay a step ahead of the waves is always a fun thing to do. Especially when there is a large flock involved...

This weekend we took a late afternoon trip out to Point Reyes, and while we were more or less fogged out of the sunset I was hoping for, I d...

While on the beach with these guys, I spent a fair amount of time at the longest range of my zoom trying to work for some intimate portraits...

An elephant seal beachmaster defends his harem at Ano Nuevo State Reserve. This was probably the largest alpha male that we saw on this trip...

I'll begin my series of elephant seals from our weekend trip to Ano Nuevo State Reserve with a few shots that were taken right at the en...

We had a really nice short trip to the San Diego area at the end of last week to finally check out the world-famous Zoos down that way. It ...

We had a really nice drive through Big Sur over Thanksgiving weekend -- it was the first time that I have done the whole distance, and I did...

Fall in the Bay Area means the start of some wonderful overcast days with high clouds all day and little chance of surprise rain. These are...