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General info - I started posting digital photos in October, 2001, and among the first pages was a Carson Pass walk to Lake Winnemucca in late September, with 24 hikers, facilitated by my friend Rich. It was the start of my involvement with the hiking group which after the 2006 summit walk at White Mountain coalesced into the East Sierra fall trip group. There's some history.
This website is admittedly an outlet for my writing & editing compulsions, as well as messing around with digital photos. Well, I'm a history nut, too. (For artistic background see Epilogue)
Intellectual Property Dept. - except where cited (e.g., web photos), all images shown on this site were taken by me, and I am responsible for any comments regarding the photos or text, but you'll find no controversy here. I strive to get historical info right, via correlation from multiple sources.
Security Dept. - I'm pretty sure visitors consist mostly of family & hiking friends. One of my PCs is dedicated to this website and never spends any time on the internet other than to upload photos to the host site. It is off otherwise, my best protection.
About my long time friend Rich - Since the mid-90s Rich lead an ever-changing group of hikers from Sacramento on a monthly trek to such interesting places as the East Bay Regional Parks, or Point Reyes National Seashore, or the Sierra Nevada mountains. Almost all of the hikers had careers with Sac City or County, or the State.
How we found each other is a mystery but fortunately, in the last 20+ years the same group of people have come together to hike frequently.
Recently posted photos from the Eastern Sierra Nevada trips from 2010 to 2022, show the best mountain scenery I've come across in California as well as picture of the attendees.
As I've had stated (for years) on this page, if not for Rich's monthly hikes, and our annual trips, my photo-pantry would be nearly bare.
In fall 2023, Rich had to retire from hiking and he is now living in the Auburn, Ca. area, with his more than capable wife Linda.
Early in '24 I took over the hiking group facilitation role and we're still going, as of fall '25.
Contact info - Should you have comments/questions, feel free to email me at mdimage@elkgrove.net
Privacy concerns - should you be the subject of one of my photos who prefers to not to be shown, just let me know.
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Epilogue - Artistic influences
My main interest from my earliest camera days was in landscape photos. My first set of photos were of bare hardwood forests in winter in the Brandywine River Valley (Wilmington, Delaware), against pinkish fall sunsets.
As for artistic influences, I learned a lot over the years from going to museums wherever I lived, or visited, looking at landscape artists' depictions of scenery.
I came to see that the principles are the same for a great landscape painting as for a landscape photo.
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