In keeping with the hypothesis that one does not receive things for which one does not ask…
It seems as though my Trusty Canon Digital Rebel XT might not be long for this world, what with its persistent odd shutter issues and a new stuck pixel on
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Ironwood in the Chuckwalla Valley
We didn’t find much in the way of wildflowers on our Route 62 wildlflower explorational foray. A few desert dandelions, a couple of lupines, some Chaenactis. At the north end of the Coxcombs a wash was dotted
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Redbubble has added postcards to the range of formats in which you can buy images, including mine. (An example of one of mine above.) You can peruse the possibilities … (continues)
The following is the complete text of an email sent to me by way of my photo gallery’s contact form:
… (continues)I urge you to read some books on nature photography. I would recommend John Shaw but his books are from the film era, although even if you’re
I'm a natural history and environmental writer, an editor and photographer. I've lived in upstate New York, the SF Bay Area, Washington, DC, the Mojave Desert, and Los Angeles. My writing has appeared in publications ranging from Camas and Orion to Bay Nature, California Wild, the Boston Globe, and about thirty daily papers nationwide when I was a syndicated garden writer for the Knight-Ridder chain. No, I never got to meet the talking car.
I've traveled extensively in the Mojave, Great Basin and Sonoran deserts, as well as in the steppes and slickrock country of the Colorado Plateau.
This blog has existed in one form or another since 2003. At first it was called Creek Running North, after Pinole Creek, near where I lived back then. I moved in 2008 and renamed the site Coyote Crossing, but about a thousand people* still link here under the old name.
My publicist tells me I should mention that my writing here has frequently been called the best on the Internet.
* May not actually equal 1000

All content Copyright © 2011 Chris Clarke. All Rights Reserved.
Banner painting by Carl S. Buell.

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