Ralph Cooksey-Talbott
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Ralph Cooksey-Talbott
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I am a photographic artist, student of Ansel, in Northern Ca. I like the natural world and do a lot of rocks, landforms and trees… I am into public art and creating and facilitating street level art outreach programs.
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Bean Hollow Rock Wall…

A nice 4x10’ section of rock from Bean Hollow…

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Point Lobos…

A windswept forest of trees covered in bright red lichens lead to this spectacular view of the point…

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Kite Hill Rock

It’s a stiff climb up here but the view is worth it, folks are often here flying kites…

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Pigeon Point Light

A nice bit of June gloom on the coast…

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Bean Hollow Birds…

There are some good rocks at Bean Hollow, the birds are happy!

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Leffingwell Point Rays…

Zoom in and have a look, there’s a lot to unpack in this insanely high res image…

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Eagles View…

A wonderful trail winding through the high meadows in Sunol.

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Little Yosemite Sycamore…

This is at the foot of one of the few functioning waterfalls in the east bay.

Nicely isolated, these trees are usually dense in our watercourses…

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Transilluminated Oak with mistletoe…

All the older oaks carry their symbiot mistletoe.

Lots of schmooping spots!!!

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Solitary Oak…

I pass this tree on a cow trail heading up to one of the high wind swept ridges in Sunol.

It hailed hard a few minutes after I took this…

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Flag Hill Meadow…

About halfway up the back side is a huge meadow full of oaks bounded by a cliff.

Sweet!

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Vargas Plateau Oak…

One of my fave ravines in the green season, and the one tree perfectly illuminated?

Who could ask for more!

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Pastoral Hillside…

Some of my friends enjoying lunch…

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The Fisherman…

I rarely have people in my pictures, I am not a street photographer.

It seemed appropriate in this case :)

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Pacheco State Park…

There were some good blooms this year…

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Oak Logic…

Nothing like a good Oak tree…

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Mattole Beach on the Lost Coast

The mighty Mattole River rolls down to the sea at the end of lighthouse rd…

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Big Basin Beach…

Everybody was there and we had a great time!

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Garapata…

It’s all about the struggle between the water and the rock…

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McWay Falls - Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park

A beautiful site with a strictly limited viewpoint, a narrow catwalk where the falls is only visible in a 30’ area.

I had to dig deep not to make a cookie cutter photo so I did a 180 degree wide field Vertorama…

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Point Lobos Twilight

Despite the fading light it’s all still going on…

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Iris Valley…

One of the hidden delights of Big Sur.

Look for it to happen in April…

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Point Lobos Break…

It’s always all going on at Point Lobos…

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Cambria sunset…

I have been printing and warehousing for a while, I cut and bagged them today and took a pic of each.

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High Valley Friends…

These guys have been hangin here for a while :)

I try to make a print a day and keep up with that better than I do with posting them…

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