Jen stands astride a heap of ploughed snow
California Snow: San Bernadino State Forest, California, US - 26th March 2006
It's fairly unusual for there to be snow in Southern California, and so loads of people stream up to the mountains to see it, play in it, and in our case, take photos of it as Nosher gets a ride along with fellow Qualcomm employee Ken, his wife Jen and their dog, out along I-8, up Sunrise Highway and into San Bernadino State Park forest. We then hike out up the Lightning Ridge Trail - Nosher with his trusty Pentax, Jen with a rather cool panoramic Hasselblad and Ken with a Nikon and an amazing retro-style medium-format field camera - serious stuff. A couple of weeks later, Nosher's back in the UK for the Easter weekend.
next album: San Diego Seven: The Desert and the Dunes, Arizona and California, US - 22nd April
previous album: A Trip to Tijuana, Mexico - 25th March 2006
Ken does a bit of map-reading
Aeolian snow carving
A tree stump in the snow
Ken checks some equipment
Ken, Jen and the dog pause by the trail marker
Off on the trail
Another long tree stump
Skeleton trees
Milling around in the woods
Hot rock
Lichen on a twig
Jen takes a photo
More tree moss
Nice grain in twisted wood
A gnarled stump
A sheet of pure green lichen
Ken sets up the field camera
Ken checks composition under the cover of a field camera
A headbanging woodpecker
This dead tree has been seriously worked by a woodpecker
Bright green sphagnum moss on a burnt tree-trunk
A flash of green
At the top of Lightning Ridge Trail, and a dead fallen tree
Ken goes for another photo
Ken with an adjustment
Ken takes a light-meter reading as the field camera waits
Cracked tree rings
We head back down the hill
Sunlight through the trees
Ken appears from behind a bush
A kid emulates his snowman
The shadow of a contrail on high cloud
Misty mountains near Julian, on Route 79
On the road to Ramona
Back home, there's a rainbow over the back field
It's a bright double rainbow
A last flash of light
The looming presence of an electricity pylon
Sunset over Thrandeston
Flowers in a church window
Stained glass
A pot in an alcove
The Bishop of Thrandeston waits for parishoners
Uncle Mick and Janice
St. Margaret of Antioch churchyard
Hint: you can use the left and right cursor keys to navigate between albums, and between photos when in the photo viewer
Jen stands astride a heap of ploughed snow
Jen stands astride a heap of ploughed snow
Ken does a bit of map-reading
Aeolian snow carving
A tree stump in the snow
Ken checks some equipment
Ken, Jen and the dog pause by the trail marker
Off on the trail
Another long tree stump
Skeleton trees
Milling around in the woods
Hot rock
Lichen on a twig
Jen takes a photo
More tree moss
Nice grain in twisted wood
A gnarled stump
A sheet of pure green lichen
Ken sets up the field camera
Ken checks composition under the cover of a field camera
A headbanging woodpecker
This dead tree has been seriously worked by a woodpecker
Bright green sphagnum moss on a burnt tree-trunk
A flash of green
At the top of Lightning Ridge Trail, and a dead fallen tree
Ken goes for another photo
Ken with an adjustment
Ken takes a light-meter reading as the field camera waits
Cracked tree rings
We head back down the hill
Sunlight through the trees
Ken appears from behind a bush
A kid emulates his snowman
The shadow of a contrail on high cloud
Misty mountains near Julian, on Route 79
On the road to Ramona
Back home, there's a rainbow over the back field
It's a bright double rainbow
A last flash of light
The looming presence of an electricity pylon
Sunset over Thrandeston
Flowers in a church window
Stained glass
A pot in an alcove
The Bishop of Thrandeston waits for parishoners
Uncle Mick and Janice
St. Margaret of Antioch churchyard