Lost Coast Panoramas
Panoramic seascape photographs from the Lost Coast and Petrolia area.
 
    I have gone to the Lost Coast - Petrolia area for the past couple of years. This is a remote coastal area in Northern California where the vegatation is lush an d the flowers are abundant in the spring.
 
   
The gallery Lost Coast Panoramas has 17 images.
 
Vertical Panoramas are Vertoramas!
The world looks very different viewed top to bottom...
 

As I made more panoramic images I rapidly realized that there was only so much room to display 4 and 6 foot images.

I then started looking at the world in a vertical format and started getting images that are 10-15 inches wide by 4 feet tall.

A number of these images have a 180 degree field of view and show the world from looking nearly straight down to a little more then straight up

As I started stocking more of these prints I could see that the logic was solid as my home and gallery walls where I hold my stock yielded a number of spaces for these images where I had previously thought they were full.

This is a new gallery so I will be adding more images to it over the next week or so...

   
 
   
 
The gallery Vertical Panoramas are Vertoramas! has 12 images.
 
Panoramic Photographs of Northern California
Stitched digital panoramic landscape photographs
 
   
Panoramic Images of Rolling California Hills

For the past several years I have been walking in the hills behind my home in Fremont and making these panoramic images.

This type of picture is long and narrow and presents the world in a very striking aspect ratio.

These images are composites of multiple frames of film or digital stripped together by hand in Photoshop.

Prints come in 23, 36, 48, 72 and 84 inch sizes. There are several presentations available, canvas on narrow stretchers for framing, canvas gallery wrapped on deep stretchers for a frameless presentation and panel laminated art paper for a water resistant presentation.
 
   
The gallery Panoramic Photographs of Northern California has 24 images.
 
The California High Sierra
The jewel of Northern California
 
Every year I spend as much time as possible having a walkabout in the Sierra high country.

I enjoy wandering through these incredible natural landscapes...

I have photographs in this collection from the early 1970's up to the current times.

Take a few minutes and browse through this gallery, I am sure you will enjoy looking at these pictures as much as I enjoy making them!
   
 
   
 
The gallery The California High Sierra has 77 images.
 
Waterfalls
Possibly my favorite thing in life...
 
    My Favorite Thing... Waterfalls

Ever since I was young I was fascinated by waterfalls and rushing water.

Where I grew up there was not a lot of gradient so most water plodded along.

My parents would take us on long car camping trips during the summers during the course of which I saw most of the National Parks.

During these trips I was exposed to the type of topographies that lead to waterfalls and water as a living entity...

As an adult I have assiduously worked on collecting waterfall images.

I hope you enjoy the results of my work in collecting waterfalls from here and there...
 
   
The gallery Waterfalls has 63 images.
 
Yosemite
A place everyone should go...
 
Yosemite is one of the most amazing mountain landscapes in the world...

I have been going there since I was lucky enough to study under Ansel Adams there in the late 1970's.

The Granite Head photo was an image that I created there on 4x5 Polaroid Type 52 print material. I had the wisdom to shoot a few sheets of 4x5 Super-XX film at the same time...

I gave one of the two Polaroids to Ansel and he loved it!

He subsequently published the image in the Black and White Portfolio section of his book "The Polaroid Technique Manual". The original resides in the Eastman Permanent Collection in Rochester, NY.
   
 
   
 
The gallery Yosemite has 42 images.
 
Frozen Waterfalls
Cold and refreshing!!!!
 
    I made it to Ithaca for three weeks during the winter of 2004.

While I had hoped for lots of snow it was fairly bereft of snow except for a few days.

Ithaca is blessed with a great many small and large waterfalls in the watershed of lake Cayuga.

While I had been there during the warm months I had yet to see their winter and so even the few days of snow were a thrill...

Of course it dosen't snow where I live so snow has some level of novelty for myself and my kids.

I went to some of the local waterfalls on the days when it was snowing and captured some nice images.
 
   
The gallery Frozen Waterfalls has 24 images.
 
Sonora Pass
A nice mild pass through the Sierra
 
We drove up to Sonora Pass in the middle of the night to avoid this summers heatwave.

I managed to get in a few days of hiking and photography and produced some very enjoyable pictures.

As always we stayed at Camp Blue at the Lair in Pinecrest and had a wonderful time.
   
 
   
 
The gallery Sonora Pass has 41 images.
 
Clouds
A constantly changing show...
 
    Clouds are one of the chaotic wonders of life. Always amusing and never the same twice.
 
   
The gallery Clouds has 12 images.
 
Abstract
The work of the master painter...
 
Nature paints from a very wide palette of colors and texture.

The abstract patterns in the weathered rocks of the Sierra crest are endlessly fascinating.

I love the range of hue of the brilliantly colored lichens that grow on the rocks.

The moment the chaos of nature is abstracted it becomes a powerful statement of tone and form that is truly incomparable.
   
 
   
 
The gallery Abstract has 18 images.
 
Alpine Wild Flowers
Natures paintbrush at work...
 
    Alpine Wild Flowers

In the high country there is a profusion of wild flowers.

I have been going to the mountains for my whole life and still I find varieties that I have never seen before.

Some of these flowers are very small and they have a host of even smaller symbiotic insects that live in their communities.

All in all they are one of the amazing aspects of the Alpine/Sub Alpine environment.

Take a second and see what I mean...
 
   
The gallery Alpine Wild Flowers has 38 images.
 
Garin Park - EBPRD
A beautiful park filled with smooth rolling hills...
 
Scenes from walking in an EBPRD park in the hills of Fremont and Hayward.    
 
   
 
The gallery Garin Park - EBPRD has 20 images.
 
Posters
Short run poster prints on art paper.
 
    I am pleased to offer as my largest open edition print this group of beautiful 24" x 30" posters. The image on each poster is 18" in the long dimension. The posters are a mixture of best selling images curated from my general collection.

These prints are made with the same high quality Epson UltraChrome inks and papers as my limited edition fine art prints and are an affordable way to get some of your favorite images.

Posters from my web site are signed and have my name and a caption contining the title and location where the photograph was taken. Posters available from stores are unsigned.

Images are available as the raw print ready to frame or in a number of attarctive ready to hang presentations.

Posters are available from 40.00 for raw in tube to 149.99 for hollow box laminated mounting. Give one of your friends a poster as a gift!!!
 
   
The gallery Posters has 32 images.
 
New Orleans French Quarter
Circa 1985
 
After the destruction of New Orleans and the surrounding parishes I though it was necessary to bring some of these images out of my files.

To try to somehow assuage the grief I have been feeling over the destruction of the city and the failed relief attempt I returned to these images so that I could share them with you.

I took these pictures during the early 80's when I spent a while living in the Garden District with my sister. I have had strong ties to the New Orleans area and our local Bay Area Cajun dancing and music community for many years. We have a weekly Cajun dance and music schedule here.

These images represent just a few of the things that I found that make the New Orleans area a true national treasure.
   
 
   
 
The gallery New Orleans French Quarter has 36 images.
 
 

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Fine art photography, free desktops and free e-cards of California by master nature photographer Cooksey-Talbott. Hundreds of beautiful photographs are displayed for sale online as raw or ready to hang images.

Cooksey-Talbott Gallery is an online e-commerce gallery of nature photographs. The collection includes pictures of the High Sierra, Ansel Adams Wilderness, Yosemite, Trinity Alps, Sonora Pass, Santa Barbara Hills, East Bay Hills and Garin Park as well as hundreds of different waterfalls. Many of the images are from medium and large format film taken with the Mamiya RB-67 and a variety of 4x5 view cameras. Some of the more recent work is shot with a Nikon D200. We offer archival quality prints in a wide variety of sizes and on different media. We print on a variety of heavy art papers and canvas using an Epson 9600 printer with UltraChrome Photo Black Pigmented inks.

Ralph Cooksey-Talbott Thomas has been working as a photographer since 1972 when he moved to California from Michigan. During the 1970’s he studied under Ansel Adams in Yosemite. Ansel published one of his photographs in the portfolio section of his book "Polaroid Technique Manual." Ansel and Orah Moore, another of Ansel’s students, suggested that he shorten his name to Cooksey-Talbott, and that is the name he has worked under since. Cooksey also studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and the San Francisco Academy of Art. He has lectured in photography at the U.C. Berkeley Extension, Studio One in Oakland and at Santa Barbara City College.