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Phil Colla

General

A Look Back at the Natural History Photography Blog

1000 blog posts and 9 blog years and 17 website years later... I am a natural history photographer with a bias towards the ocean and marine-related subjects. I have one marketing channel: my own hand-coded, self-designed web site. In 1997 it was one of the first entirely database-driven, keyword-searchable stock…
December 12, 2013
Skip's Trips

Skip Stubbs in the Sea of Cortez (2013)

From Skip: We had a very pleasant 9-day diving trip from Loreto to La Paz this year in mid-October. We lost one day of diving due to TS Octave, which passed right over us south of Loreto. We were tucked into a cove and only got lots of horizontal rain.…
November 11, 2013
New Work

New Work – September 2013

During the last few months my photographic efforts have been limited so I have just a few images to include in this release. These new works arise from photography efforts at Guadalupe Island (Mexico), the White Mountains, Yosemite National Park, the Owens Valley, a blue moon evening along San Diego…
October 23, 2013
New Work

New Work – August 2013

I made a series of very short trips to photograph Yosemite National Park, Death Valley National Park, Crater Lake National Park and Mount Rainier National Park, along with a brief visit to the Alabama Hills. Here is a small sampling of the images I made over the last couple months;…
August 31, 2013
New Work

New Work – June 2013

To go straight to the good stuff and skip the verbiage: New Work June 2013. I released some really strong images in June 2013, including some from what is perhaps the most photographically productive southwest trip I've ever made. I froze my ass off during cold May weather high in…
August 30, 2013
New Work

New Work – April 2013

To go straight to the new images: New Work - April 2013. I have been slowing down the release of new work on my web site. This is partly due to my desire to be more contemplative and rigorous during the editing of my images, but also I had my…
April 29, 2013
Astrophotography and Night ScapesJoshua TreePanoramasThe American Southwest

Milky Way and Moon at Night, Shooting Star, Comet Panstarrs, Panorama, Joshua Tree National Park

Joshua Tree National Park, Milky Way and Moon, Shooting Star, Comet Panstarrs, Impending Dawn. This panorama of Joshua Tree National Park was made at astronomical twilight during International Dark Sky Week recently (last week). Some slight blue color from the impending dawn appears behind and to the left of the…
April 18, 2013
CaliforniaPanoramas

Panorama Photo of the Open Ocean

Open Ocean Panoramic Photograph I've spent a lot of time on the open ocean, in small boats, looking for big creatures. Some of the best days of my life have been spent on a glassy ocean surface, traveling one hundred miles or more under blue skies and summer breezes, waiting…
April 13, 2013
Paris

Art Seller, La Rive Gauche, Paris, France

Art Seller along La Rive Gauche, the Left Bank, Paris. La Rive Gauche, the Left Bank, is the southern bank of the river Seine in Paris, France. Here the river flows roughly westward, cutting the city in two: looking downstream, the southern bank is to the left, and the northern…
February 27, 2013