Sometime early in my photo career, I decided to “stay home” and shoot only in California’s native habitats. Not that it’s a hardship: I live by the ocean and also travel widely, from coast to valley to mountains to deserts, in my dusty old Toyota truck. These landscapes are not Half Dome. They’re quiet. They have their seasons, their own “order,” their unique textures and colors. Parks and preserves are crucial, but so are these other vanishing worlds we drive by daily. Who will speak for buckeyes, manzanita, valley oak jungle, or pickleweed?

I was gifted my first 4×5 field camera in the late 1980s, and the 4×5 and 8×10—plus a Hasselblad for wind and rain — were my cameras of choice for 30 years. Those were, of course, film days, with dark cloth, spot meter, sheet film holders, and CC filters. I now shoot and print digitally, and the images shown here are all from these more recent days.

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