"Heart of Oak" for #TreeTuesday Coast Live Oaks trunks appear to form the shape of a human heart with its chambers. Photographed at Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve, San Diego, California. alexander-kunz.pixels.com/featured/hea... #BlackAndWhite #Trees #SanDiego #CoastLiveOak #NaturePhotography

For #MountainMonday I have this elevated view of the Southern California desert landscape, disappearing in monsoonal haze. Seen from the Laguna Crest in San Diego County. #LandscapePhotography #Mountains #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #LagunaMountains #SanDiego #SouthernCalifornia #MonochromeMonday

Clear view of lightning withing a thunderstorm cell that was building over Clark Dry Lake and Rabbit Peak on 9-18-25. As seen that evening from Coyote Canyon where the coyotes joined in for a howl fest for a while.

“The whole cosmos has come together in order to help the flower manifest herself.” (Thich Nhat Hanh) #Quotes #BloomScrolling #NaturePhotography #Larkspur #Delphinium #Zen #Wildflowers #Flowers #CloseUp

Never say never, but this may very well be the only #Caturday contribution I'll ever be able to make. :) Street cat in Fornalutx, Mallorca, Spain; March 2008. More from Mallorca: www.alex-kunz.com/majorca-mall... #StreetPhotography #Mallorca #Cats

Blog post: "A Few Photo Storage Insights" (and hot takes;-) www.alex-kunz.com/a-few-photo-... #Photography #PhotoBlog #Backup #Storage #BlogPost

The land with this beautiful waterfalls is currently for sale and the San Diego River Park Foundation is raising funds to purchase & conserve it forever. More info is here: sandiegoriver.org/mildredfalls/ Share? Thanks! #Conservation #Waterfall #SanDiego #LandscapePhotography #FundRaising

#ThrowbackThursday to September 2015 with a cellphone photo made at Village Hillcrest in San Diego. #Photography #Cityscape #iPhonePhotography #SanDiego

For those of you that know and follow Ol’ Blue my 2003 Toyota 4Runner approaching half a million miles, you can now follow his adventures on the gram www.instagram.com/olblue_toy

Heading towards my native soil tomorrow, though not alas with photography or hiking on the agenda. But I'll be insisting on red chile. #landscapephotography #newmexico

It's the middle of the month so I've got my #throwback to photos and things from ten years ago, in September 2015, on the blog today: www.alex-kunz.com/september-20... #PhotoBlog #LandscapePhotography #Yosemite #Desert Monsoon #Photography #Blogpost

I've neglected (read: forgot) sharing some recent blog posts with y'all here. Here's one with two photos from desert hikes in the famous spring of 2020... ;) www.alex-kunz.com/poppies-lupi... #NaturePhotography #Desert #BloomScrolling #IntimateLandscape #SouthernCalifornia #AnzaBorrego #SanDiego

The Mothership Anza-Borrego Desert State Part California

Mammatus clouds above the Laguna Crest for #MountainMonday & #MonochromeMonday Looking north from Foster Point along the PCT in San Diego's Laguna Mountains. #LandscapePhotography #SanDiego #Monsoon #Cloudscape #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Clouds #BigSky #Monochrome

All in all, it's been a pretty strange day, so here's a photo with strange colors... #Infrared #Photography #LandscapePhotography #FalseColor #InfraredPhotography #IRPhotography #SanDiego

Dry Fall Water carved a slit canyon into a hot and dry desert landscape. The landscape changes on an inhuman time scale. #ThrowbackThursday to a hike in the Coyote Mountains Wilderness in April 2020. #Desert #AnzaBorrego #LandscapePhotography #IntimateLandscape

One raven per rock please. #WildlifeWednesday Photographed while hiking Lawson & Gaskill peaks in San Diego's back country a few years back. #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #Birds #Ravens

Wolf Lichen (Letharia vulpina) on a decaying Jeffrey Pine trunk (Pinus jeffreyi) for #TextureTuesday & #TreeTuesday & #LichenSubscribe 😎 #NaturePhotography #CloseUp #WolfLichen #Lichen #Texture #Trees

For the end of the month as usual, I have my End Notes with a couple of photos that I made this month, links, observations, and stories: www.alex-kunz.com/august-2025-... Cheers! #PhotoBlog #LandscapePhotography #SanDiego #BlogPost #EndNotes

"Ground Control to Major Tom" Shot with the late great Lori Carey Lighting is red strobe inside "Capsule" blue strobe outside and main light provided by idiot who's headlights "ruined" the shot in the middle of nowhere

Hi all, The company that hosts my print-on-demand store (FAA) has a Labor Day Sale with 20% off of all products, now through Monday, September 1st. Please visit fineartamerica.com/profiles/ale... if you’d like to take a look. Thanks! #SelfPromo #SelfPromotion #Photography #SanDiego #BuyIntoArt

In the last few days, some good monsoonal moisture finally made it to Southern California and brought clouds that the sun lit up as it set. :) alexander-kunz.pixels.com/featured/fos... #Sunset #LandscapePhotography #Monsoon #SanDiego #LagunaMountains #AnzaBorrego #Summer #SouthernCalifornia

"The Drop" for #WaterfallWednesday Standing at the edge of Vernal Falls in Yosemite National Park, with a view of the famous Mist Trail and Merced River canyon below. May 2024. #Yosemite #Waterfall #LandscapePhotography #Hiking #MistTrail #SierraNevada

Beatboxing for nature photographers: Birds'n Shrubs'n Birds'n Shrubs'n Birds'n Shrubs'n Birds'n Shrubs'n Birds'n Shrubs'n Birds'n Shrubs'n Birds'n Shrubs 24 photos of birds & shrubs for practice: www.alex-kunz.com/birds-shrubs/ #PhotoBlog #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #Birds

Hazy chaparral landscape of the Santa Ana Mountains, looking west from San Mateo Peak in the San Mateo Canyon Wilderness of Southern California. alexander-kunz.pixels.com/featured/haz... #MountainMonday #SouthernCalifornia #Hiking #LandscapePhotography #Mountains #WestCoast

Copyright Alliance call to action: Say 'No' To Unlicensed AI Training! copyrightalliance.org/get-involved... #Copyright #AI

"Mirkwood" for a late #ForestFriday Part of my portfolio "A More Complex Kind of Order" www.alex-kunz.com/portfolio/a-... #Forest #LandscapePhotography #Washington #Dark

"Enough for Everyone" 2024 Southwest Autumn

One of my best sellers. Thanks a lot to Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada! alexander-kunz.pixels.com/saleannounce... #ShamelessPlug #SelfPromo #PrintSales #Photography #LandscapePhotography #BuyIntoArt

I ❤️ this photo, but online it gets 🦗 for engagement. The sharpness of the tree, the lighting, the stars in the sky with just a wisp of the Milky Way. It reminds me of experimenting with light in a dark sky park under some amazing night skies. Wish you could have seen it! #photography #on1pics

Today is #WorldPhotographyDay and for me, that's every day. 😁 Seastacks silhouetted against the sunset sky, Crescent City, California. alexander-kunz.pixels.com/featured/sea... #Seascape #LongExposure #Sunset #Photography #CrescentCity #NorthernCalifornia #Silhouette

Textured Colors (or Colored Textures?) at the Artist's Palette, Death Valley National Park, California. www.alex-kunz.com/return-to-ar... #LandscapePhotography #DeathValley #IntimateLandscape #Badlands #Desert

My late contribution to #ForestFriday comes from the riparian woodlands in Southern California, from a summer walk at Los Peñasquitos Canyon a few years back. alexander-kunz.pixels.com/featured/rip... #IntimateLandscape #SanDiego #Forest #Trees #NaturePhotography #Woodland

For the middle of the month as usual I have my #Throwback to photos and activities from 10 years ago. Three photos that have passed the test of time: www.alex-kunz.com/august-2015-... #Photography #PhotoBlog #FallbackFriday #LandscapePhotography #Yosemite #MonoLake #EasternSierra #SierraNevada

Can one ever have enough photos of Sacred Datura? Maybe. But not today! Square format, might need a click/tap... Many more: www.alex-kunz.com/plant/datura... #FloralFriday #NaturePhotography #CloseUp #Datura #NativePlants #SanDiego #FlowerFriday #Flowers #FridayFlowers

To implore limitations on one's photography can be an interesting experience, but it leads some people to a dogmatic approach to aesthetics. To me, that is a wasted creative opportunity. www.alex-kunz.com/dogmatic-aes... #Photography #BlogPost

Time for another protest mailer, which of course came in the same inconspicuously looking letter as the trash fee. The protest is a vote, and #SanDiego makes it pretty difficult to even identify it as such, let alone exercise that right. It's sneaky & deceptive. www.10news.com/news/local-n...

"Trees on Ledge" for #TreeTuesday This is Half Dome's northwest face, seen from North Dome in Yosemite National Park, California. alexander-kunz.pixels.com/featured/tre... #Yosemite #Trees #Halfdome #LandscapePhotography #Granite #Cliff #Mountains #IntimateLandscape

"Red Clouds Over Filaree Flats" for #SunsetSaturday Photographed in August 2022 from the summit of Garnet Peak in San Diego's Laguna Mountains. #SanDiego #LandscapePhotography #LagunaMountains #Sunset #Twilight #Landscape #Photography #Clouds #SouthernCalifornia #BackCountry

"Steep Thoughts from Tall Trees" about hiking in the redwood forests, named trees and named groves, tree chasing, and the destruction that ensues from too many humans. www.alex-kunz.com/steep-though... #PhotoBlog #Forest #Redwood #Environment #NaturePhotography #Photography #NorthernCalifornia

Delicate plants like Western Sword Fern and Solomon's Plume grow directly at the foot of majestic, giant old redwood trees. For #ForestFriday alexander-kunz.pixels.com/featured/del... #IntimateLandscape #NaturePhotography #Forest #Redwood #NorthernCalifornia #Trees #OldGrowth #FernsFriday

"Hydrangea Essence" A de-focused close-up the blue flowers of a Hydrangea plant, for #FloralFriday and such... :) alexander-kunz.pixels.com/featured/hyd... #FlowerFriday #Abstract #Photography #Plants #Blue #Hydrangea #FlowersOnFriday #BloomScrolling #NaturePhotography

For #ThrowbackThursday I have the Milky Way above Laguna Meadows, photographed #OnThisDay in 2020 during a pleasant summer night in San Diego's higher elevation back country. #NightPhotography #LandscapePhotography #SanDiego #SouthernCalifornia #Stars #Night #MilkyWay #ExposureStacking

Okay, I'm giving this #WildlifeWednesday another go, after my blooper yesterday... 😅 Osprey on a Monterey cypress snag in morning fog, Baywood, California; August 2021. #Birds #NaturePhotography #Snag #BirdPhotography #Osprey #CentralCoast #California