Behind the Scenes

I am continuing to generate images for my book “Wild San Diego” to be published in late 2013.  The book will celebrate the unique natural world of San Diego County.  It will have images from the desert, mountains, coastal plain, sea’s edge and of course the open sea!  The big ram was at Borrego Palm Canyon on memorial Day and I took the scenic of the nearby “bad lands” in the early morning hours.  I found the red-diamond rattlesnake the previous week in Encinitas, which is about 5 miles from the coast. 

I spent some time in Joshua Tree during the months of March and April.  I was able to get a couple nice images in this special place.  I found the desert tortoise few hundred meters off the road that comes into the park at the southern entrance, off the I-10.  This is a beautiful section of the Colorado Desert. 

The squid run in December, 2011 was the best many of us have seen in 10 years.  It was back to the “old days” for me.  Taking a tank out of the trunk of my vehicle, then making the long surface swim with my camera out to the edge of the canyon in the La Jolla Marine Preserve. 

On November 3rd, we found blue whales and fin whales “busting through” krill at the surface off the San Diego coast.  What a show!!  At one point a fin whale and two blues punched through the krill together.