Category: Photography

Photographer Ryan Albaugh lives and works in the Fall River region of eastern Shasta County. The area is full of majestic scenery and people enjoying a country life not typically seen in most of California. That sense of place that lends richness to his subjects, which he does a great job of capturing. Click on any image to go to his site.
Below, one of my favorites. Of course, a photograph is only captured light. But sometimes, just sometimes, the light comes from within the subject. And then it’s magic. Like this. Yeah, click on this one.Well worth your time to look over his portfolio at http://www.albaughphoto.com/. Even better, hire a session. Your light is waiting to be captured. Ryan also does landscape photography, and of course his subjects are often stunning views of glorious eastern Shasta County. You can order them directly from his website, which is convenient. And you can also get in touch with Ryan on Facebook and Twitter @ryanalbaugh.

Exposing the Intermountain perspective of Really Redding, via your skilled aperture.
Carry on, lensman.

I don’t want to encourage graffiti at all, but I saw this today on Highway 273 near Redding and couldn’t resist the shot. I think we’ve all ridden that train before, only to discover too late it was pulling a boxcar full of…

“You didn’t set out on the track to hell.

But it should come as no surprise.

Your destination is guaranteed,

pulling a boxcar full of lies.”

Here’s a shot I took yesterday on a lonely stretch of Highway 36 in Northern Tehama County, whilst out on some real estate business.

Click to slightly expand. Stark beauty in the northstate.

Captured this image this morning after a big storm passed. “Stormpocalypse.”

Click to embiggen. It was a big rainstorm, and we need more of that, please.

 

From appropriately named Shasta View Drive. Just had to stop and shoot this today. We live in a place of great beauty.
Shasta View. It’s Really Redding.

I took this first shot around 8 pm, yesterday evening. The full moon was very bright.
And then the second shot around 4 am today. Not quite the peak of the eclipse.
Coincidentally a few hours earlier, the SF Giants won an important game and secured a berth in the playoffs. So perhaps this isn’t a Blood Moon, but is instead a Giants Orange Moon.

We were in Weed for business yesterday, and were pleased to see a lot of it remains intact. Much of the images online lately have been of burned homes destroyed in their recent big fire.
Not to diminish the tragedy in any way, but Weed was buzzing with activity yesterday.
Our fire economy at work.