Notices by Alexander S. Kunz (alexskunz@mas.to)

"Dreaming of Lake Manly"

Twelve photos of Death Valley’s ephemeral and fantastical Lake Manly — at dusk, at dawn, and from high above at Dante’s View and Mount Perry.

https://www.alex-kunz.com/dreaming-of-lake-manly/

#PhotoBlog #BlogPost #DeathValley #LakeManly #Sunrise #Sunset #Twilight #LandscapePhotography #Desert #NationalParks

#SilentSunday

#ThrowbackThursday to October 2015 and a lovely hike in the cloud-shrouded forest up at Palomar Mountain in San Diego County.

https://store.alex-kunz.com/featured/canyon-oak-woods-1-alexander-kunz.html

#Forest #Mosstodon #SanDiego #Hiking #NaturePhotography #IntimateLandscape #Throwback

#SilentSunday

For #FlowerFriday here are some Purple Chinese Houses (Collinsia heterophyllia), photographed in spring. I particularly like how the color pattern repeats in the out of focus areas behind the flower. :)

https://alexander-kunz.pixels.com/featured/purple-chinese-houses-alexander-kunz.html

#Flowers #BloomScrolling #NaturePhotography #CloseUp #Wildflowers #FlowerPower #FloralFriday #FlowersOnFriday #Collinsia #ChineseHouses #SanDiego #Spring #SouthernCalifornia

San Diego's new "water year" has begun on October 1st and we're hoping for a wetter winter than the last one! (when we only got ~half of our average).

Here's an old old photo made in spring 2011, after a particularly wet winter. Still one of my all-time favorites.

A few more in my blog: https://www.alex-kunz.com/happy-new-water-year/

#SanDiego #Photography #LandscapePhotography #Water #IntimateLandscape

"Oscillations (6:15)" for #MeerMittwoch

I photographed these tide pools many many times over the years. Here they are mostly buried by sand (which winter storms will eventually wash away) and under the remnants of nice late-summer monsoon clouds on an early morning in September. I like the calm subtlety and pastel colors very much.

https://alexander-kunz.pixels.com/featured/oscillations-alexander-kunz.html

#Seascape #SanDiego #Twilight #Monsoon #WestCoast #SeascapePhotography #LandscapePhotography #Beach

“The whole cosmos has come together in order to help the flower manifest herself.” (Thich Nhat Hanh)

#Quotes #BloomScrolling #NaturePhotography #Larkspur #Delphinium #Zen #Wildflowers #Flowers #CloseUp

Blog post: "A Few Photo Storage Insights" (and hot takes;-)

https://www.alex-kunz.com/a-few-photo-storage-insights/

#Photography #PhotoBlog #Backup #Storage #BlogPost

This is Mildred Falls, the highest waterfall in San Diego County!

The land on which it flows is currently for sale and the San Diego River Park Foundation is raising funds in an effort to purchase it and conserve it forever.

If you can help & chip in, more info is here: https://sandiegoriver.org/mildredfalls/

Boost? Thanks!

#Conservation #Waterfall #SanDiego #LandscapePhotography #FundRaising

#SilentSunday

In the last few days, some good monsoonal moisture finally made it to Southern California and kindly provided some clouds that the sun cloud light up as it set. :)

This is at Foster Point in the Laguna Mountains, an easy to reach vista point just off the Pacific Crest Trail, with views along the Pacific Crest and into the Anza Borrego Desert.

https://alexander-kunz.pixels.com/featured/foster-point-sunset-alexander-kunz.html

#Sunset #LandscapePhotography #Monsoon #SanDiego #LagunaMountains #AnzaBorrego #Summer #SouthernCalifornia #WestCoastBestCoast

#SilentSunday

"Steel Blue Ripples" for #TextureTuesday

The orange lichen accents on this blue rock were particularly nice. Found at Agueberry Point high above Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park, California.

https://alexander-kunz.pixels.com/featured/steel-blue-ripples-alexander-kunz.html

#Rocks #CloseUp #LichenSubscribe #DeathValley

"Towers Full of Secrets" — Death Valley National Park, California.

From my latest blog post, Hoodoos in Death Valley: https://www.alex-kunz.com/hoodoos-in-death-valley/ (with one more photo)

#DeathValley #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite #Hoodoo #Desert

#SilentSunday

XKCD "Dreams"
https://xkcd.com/137/

#XKCD #Comic

For #MountainMonday I have a photo of the western part of the San Ysidro Mountains, rising gently from chaparral-covered undulating hills in San Diego's back country near Ranchita. Photographed while hiking a section of the Pacific Crest Trail.

https://alexander-kunz.pixels.com/featured/ranchita-evening-alexander-kunz.html

#LandscapePhotography #SanDiego #Chaparral #BackCountry #Hiking #PacificCrestTrail #SouthernCalifornia

#SilentSunday

@carolannie one of my favorites too. We have Penstemon spectabilis (Showy Penstemon) here, which has very similar colors.

https://www.alex-kunz.com/plant/showy-penstemon/