Long Beach, California.

Here is another brand new section to our website:  Long Beach California photos.

I gotta admit, Long Beach was a pleasant surprise.  It had been many many years since I had last visited Long Beach.  I remembered it as a somewhat dirty industrial port.  Either my memory was off, or they have made some wonderful changes to the area – probably a bit of both.  We only spent one evening there, I had hoped to return for more, but that will have to wait for a future trip.

Entrance to Slab City, an abandoned military base that is now home to a large number of squatters, Imperial Valley, California.

We have a new section on our website of photos of the Imperial Valley, California.  This section includes photos of the Salton Sea, Salvation Mountain, Slab City and the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area – all places that I think many people might find a little unique to put it kindly.

Indian Wells Golf Resort, Indian Wells, California.

Janine has now updated our website with our new photos of the Palm Springs area.

Palm Springs was one of the first communities developed in this portion of desert.  In addition, Palm Springs is also where the airport is located, so the whole area is often referred to as Palm Springs, although today it is made up of a series of smaller towns like Rancho Mirage, Indian Wells, La Quinta and Palm Desert to name a few.  When I’m driving around down there, I never seem to know exactly what town I’m in.

On the local news they refer to the area as the Coachella Valley although locals don’t seem to like that name, and people outside the area probably haven’t heard of it, so for now, we will still call the area Palm Springs.  Our page has photos of most the smaller communities in the area.

In the photo above, of the public golf course, I needed to blend a couple different exposures to maintain detail in the building.  Despite being a “public” course, I was asked to leave right after taking this photo – evidently they don’t like the “public” taking picture there.