The fall season in the Sierra mountains (along HWY 395) starts early in the October to early November. I was monitoring the Mono County website www.monocounty.org for fall color updates and decided to go during the tail end of October. This is my second year photographing fall colors along HWY 395 and since it was a last minute plan I decided to do a solo trip. I had a ... Continue Reading...
HWY 395
Conway Summit
Conway Summit along HWY 395 is one of those tricky and interesting spots that makes me nervous all the time to stop and pull over. There are a few pull out vista spots along the highway but you have to be careful to do so when in traffic. This is because the cars and sometimes big rigs drive by really really fast or someone will pull up right in front of you and slow ... Continue Reading...
Solo Trip to Alabama Hills
Alabama Hills is quickly becoming one of my favorite spots to go to along the HWY 395. Up until this last trip that I did around late October, I only visited in the middle of the day or as my last stopover on my trip before enduring a 5-hour drive back home to Orange County. Even though this was the last scheduled stop on my trip, I made sure that I reach Alabama Hills ... Continue Reading...
Manzanar National Historic Site
As an immigrant to this country, we only looked at the positive aspects of what this country had to offer and never even imagined the dark history that this county went through to get where it is now. Manzanar National Historic Site GPS Coordinates: 36.728, -118.14749 We have learned a little bit of history about the various wars America was a part of around the ... Continue Reading...
Milky Way Over Trona Pinnacles
I have always wanted to go into the depths of the Trona Pinnacles. Now that I have my 4Runner, this seemed like the perfect time to make this long overdue trip. My buddy and I went together on this trip. We wanted this trip to work out both as an exploratory trip to check out my new vehicle, as well as a photography trip. That way, we get to have two kinds of fun in one trip ... Continue Reading...