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North Coast Night Lights: Lost in Space (Big Dipper over Trinidad)

by David Wilson on November 1, 2019 at 9:38AM

We could not see the shape of the coastline changing before our eyes, but we knew it was. The waves crashed against rock and beach unceasingly, one after another, and still we saw no changes.

Author Chag Lowry to Talk About Yurok WWI Book at Multiple Events

by Thadeus Greenson on October 17, 2019 at 3:31PM

Formerly local author Chag Lowry, whose graphic novel Soldiers Unknown was the subject of the Journal’s Sept. 26 cover story, will be speaking at a couple local events this weekend. Lowry, whose book tells the story of three young Yurok men drafted to serve in World War I, will be speaking at Humboldt State University at 1:30 p.m.

North Coast Night Lights: Avenue of the Imagination

by David Wilson on October 4, 2019 at 2:28PM

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North Coast Night Lights: Ramparts on the Coast

by David Wilson on September 26, 2019 at 1:41PM

But there’s a larger issue about sharing locations too precisely, called geotagging: If your image is compelling, through the power of social media you can inadvertently send large numbers of people to the same location by geotagging it in your post. People see the pin on the map and can go directly to the spot.

North Coast Night Lights: Fading but not Forgotten

by David Wilson on September 20, 2019 at 9:17AM

I’ve come to embrace the unexpected when I photograph. I tell people when I go out that it’s always an experiment, but I think they think I’m kidding.

North Coast Night Lights: Beauty on the Redwood Highway

by David Wilson on September 12, 2019 at 4:19PM

Here on the North Coast one could spend that same hour driving through places like this stretch along the Redwood Corridor… and for an hour of beauty you’re transported 65 miles away (for some drivers a bit more!). All the while you are driving among the hills, along rivers, high above Pacific vistas, through parks and forests full of clean air.

North Coast Night Lights: Eel River Stargazer

by David Wilson on September 4, 2019 at 3:33PM

Soaking in the rejuvenating energy of the river and redwood forest beneath the cosmic rays of the galaxy, we stood tiny on the great stage of the universe. In between staring into the depths of the cosmos we captured images of its grand magnificence and shrunk them down to our little screens to examine with little oohs and ahhs of delight.

North Coast Night Lights: Tule Fog on Humboldt Bay

by David Wilson on August 29, 2019 at 2:15PM

But I didn’t find myself on the moors of 19th century England that night. Instead I landed in an alien landscape that was veiled in fog, yes, but aglow with intense pools of otherworldly light.

North Coast Night Lights: Metal Beast and Stardust Skies

by David Wilson on August 21, 2019 at 12:07PM

No, the road out to our place was no longer a through road, but Rand McNally and other makers of folding travel maps of the ’70s, ’80s, and 90s apparently never got the word. We turned back many a traveler who would try showing us by the little lines on their map that the road did, in fact, go through to the coast or to Piercy, while we would point to the bald fact that it did not go through.

North Coast Night Lights: Reflections at Richardson Grove

by David Wilson on August 14, 2019 at 3:29PM

I hadn’t intended to write a review of the campground, just another Night Lights of the North Coast story. But this is feeling a little like a review, and I loved my time there, so let me say right here that I completely recommend taking the family to Richardson Grove State Park.

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