Category Archives: Photography

Castle Crags, late April 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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A rare foggy day in Redding

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

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

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

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Shasta Dam with floodgates open

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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