Category Archives: Photography

Castle Crags, late April 2023

Posted on May 8, 2023 by Skip@RR

About 25 minutes drive on Interstate 5 north of Redding, you come across a spectacular sight. Granite spires rising through the forest to the west. This is Castle Crags State Park. Pull off the highway for hiking, camping, or just … Continue reading →

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Snowboarding on Mt. Shasta with my grandson

Posted on January 23, 2023 by Skip@RR

About an hour drive north on I-5 from Redding is the Mt Shasta Ski Park. Went up on Sunday 1/22/2023 and captured this photo of my grandson, 9, with the glorious mountain in the background, sporting a lenticular cloud crown. … Continue reading →

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Heritage Day at Burney Falls

Posted on November 4, 2022 by Skip@RR

World famous Burney Falls is about an hour drive East from Redding. We went up for their Heritage Day festivities, and it was great fun. Here is Burney Falls: Here’s an image of the event: There were lot’s of demonstrations … Continue reading →

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Virtual tour of the renewed downtown Redding

Posted on August 8, 2022 by Skip@RR

I walked through the new downtown Redding shortly after it opened in early 2021, and I created this virtual tour. It was all so new and clean. It was almost startlingly surreal at the time. Some of the businesses seen … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Pride Month in Redding 2022

Posted on June 6, 2022 by Skip@RR

Greetings from Downtown Redding’s Umbrella Alley. Image from June 2021.

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A rare foggy day in Redding

Posted on January 6, 2022 by Skip@RR

Today is foggy in Redding. It doesn’t often happen. Here are some images of local scenes draped in mist. I took these shots last November.

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A pandemic Spring in Redding

Posted on April 3, 2021 by Skip@RR

I last posted here during a grim Christmas season. Despite lockdowns and (frequently ignored) masking and sanitizing regimens, infection rates were on the rise with no end in sight. I could not escape a feeling of gloom and uncertainty about … Continue reading →

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Redding’s lovely City Hall

Posted on November 29, 2019 by Skip@RR

We received a light snowfall a few days ago. I was hoping to shoot our City Hall with a dusting of snow, but it had melted away before I got there. Took these shots anyway. It’s a beautiful building.

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Granddaughter takes flight

Posted on September 4, 2019 by Skip@RR
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Shasta Dam with floodgates open

Posted on April 8, 2019 by Skip@RR

Redding is blessed by an abundance of fresh water. “Freshwater makes up a very small fraction of all water on the planet. While nearly 70 percent of the world is covered by water, only 2.5 percent of it is fresh. … Continue reading →

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