garyl899.bsky.social
@garyl899.bsky.social
Husband, Father, Retired technology guy. Making photographs for over 60 years, not afraid to keep doing it as long as I can...

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Upper Yosemite Falls and Merced River, Yosemite National Park, California.
iPhone 16 Pro Max infrared image using an external R72 infrared filter.
The main village of the native people of Yosemite Valley, the Ahwahneechee, was located at the base of the falls.
December 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon.
Infrared iPhone XS Max infrared image using an external R72 infrared filter.
Crater Lake was formed around 7,700 years ago by the collapse of the volcano Mount Mazama. With a depth of 1,949 feet, the lake is the deepest in the United States.
December 1, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Cottonwood Mountains, Death Valley National Park, California This view is from the Mesquite Dunes area of the park.
November 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Badwater Basin, Death Valley. National Park, California
On Aug. 20, 2023, heavy rain from Hurricane Hilary led to the pooling of water in Badwater Basin, where Lake Manly, an ancient lake that once was filled with water up to 700 feet deep during the Ice Ages was temporarily restored.
November 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Big Morongo Canyon, Morongo Valley, California.
iPhone 16 Pro Max image using an external R72 infrared filter.
The Big Morongo Canyon Preserve is a 31,000-acre preserve located in the transition zone between the higher Mojave Desert and lower elevation Colorado Desert section of the Sonoran Desert.
November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
El Capitan and the Merced River, Yosemite National Park, California.
iPhone 16 Pro MAX image
El Capitan is the exposed root of a massive igneous intrusion from the Sierra Nevada Batholith solidified deep within the Earth approximately 100 million years ago, later exposed and sculpted by glaciers.
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Point Lobos, State Natural Reserve, California

Point Lobos is just south of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California at the north end of the Big Sur coast.
November 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada
October 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
It's getting close to Halloween, so I'll share a creepy mushroom photo I took in my neighborhood...
Makes you think, eh?
October 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada
October 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Water Holes Canyon, Arizona
Another favorite shot from my 2015 visit…
October 15, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Water Holes Canyon, Arizona
October 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Eye of the Sun
The "Eye of the Sun," is a natural rock arch in Monument Valley, Arizona, accessible only by guided Navajo tours into the backcountry of the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park
October 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Coulter Bay, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
Coulter Bay is on the Eastern shore of Jackson Lake in Grand Teton National Park. Jackson Lake is one of the largest high-altitude lakes in the United States, at an elevation of 6,772 ft above sea level.
September 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Stevens Creek, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington
iPhone 7 Plus image
Mount Rainier National Park was established on March 2, 1899, as the fourth national park in the United States, preserving 236,381 acres including all of Mount Rainier, a 14,410-foot stratovolcano.
September 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Sahalie Falls
Sahalie Falls (meaning "Heaven" in Chinook) is a plunging waterfall of the McKenzie River in Linn County, Oregon, located alongside Oregon Route 126, 34 miles west of the city of Sisters.
The waterfall consists of a 73-foot (22 m) plunge, with year-round waterflow rates of 560 cu ft/s.
September 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Devils Churn
Devils Churn is a narrow inlet south of Yachats, Oregon,
Over many thousands of years, wave action carved into the basalt shoreline, forming a cave whose roof eventually collapsed. The tide can throw spray hundreds of feet into the air when the waves reach the end of the churn.
September 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Hood River morning
Hood River, Oregon is a port on the Columbia River, and is named for the nearby Hood River. Hood River (originally called Dog River) was incorporated in 1895. It is the only city in Oregon where public consumption of alcohol on sidewalks or parks is completely unrestricted.
September 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Mount Hood, also known as Wy'east, is considered the Oregon volcano most likely to erupt. Odds of an eruption in the next 30 years are estimated at 3 to 7%, so the U.S. Geological Survey characterizes it as "potentially active", but the mountain is informally considered dormant.
September 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Bob Creek Wayside, Florence, Oregon
iPhone 6+ image 60 second exposure using Average Cameras Pro app

Bob Creek Wayside is about 10 minutes south of Yachats, within Neptune State Park and the Cape Perpetua Marine Reserve.
September 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Pacific Ocean Southview Overlook, near Florence Oregon
Infrared iPhone XS MAX image using an external R72 IR filter.
September 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I read that there is a lot of sunspot activity at the moment, so I went out with my Canon Superzoom and a solar filter, and took some shots...
Yup... The spots are definitely active!
September 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Nisqually River, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington
Infrared iPhone XS MAX image using an external R72 IR filter.
August 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Golden Quartz Picnic Site.
Located on the South Fork of the Yuba River, five miles upstream from the town of Washington on a pretty darn rough road…
Infrared iPhone XS MAX image using an external R72 IR filter.
August 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I camped at Fort Townsend, Washington on Sunday night, and attempted some Milky Way shots using my iPhone 16 Pro MAX. I was disappointed to find that it wasn't nearly dark enough to see the MW with the naked eye... My iPhone shots were better than I expected, but still not that good...
August 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM