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Alexander S. Kunz Photography
@alex-kunz.com
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Photographer & photography instructor, mentor, judge in San Diego, CA. #Lightroom expert, teacher, tutor. Environmentalist. #Chaparral naturalist. Introvert. Friend of single exposures, #Ambient music.

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This is a small sea cave south of La Jolla shores, which is only accessible during winter negative tides. One still has to pay attention to the tides to not get trapped of course!

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#Seascape #LaJolla #KingTides #SanDiego #LowTide
A vertical orientation color photo showing a narrow slit in coastal rock disappearing into a dark background. The rocks are covered in purple and blue algae.
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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"How to Explain"

I feel lucky to have made this shot; I saw this light out of the corner of my while walking through a quiet forest. I took a couple of focus stacks, and the light was gone before I knew it. I am no stranger to quickly fleeting light, but I was not expecting it midday in a forest!
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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#SilentSunday
A color photo showing a bare, solitary cottonwood tree on a pasture. In the foreground are the remnants of an old fence and animal barrier. The entire scene is shrouded in an eerie, dense fog.
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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For #WaterfallWednesday:

Sardine Falls of McKay Creek, seen from Sonora Pass Road in California's Eastern Sierra.

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#LandscapePhotography #Waterfall #EasternSierra #California #Landscape #SierraNevada #Mountains #Photography #MountainPhotography
Color photo showing an alpine landscape sparsely vegetated with trees. A waterfall can be seen coming out of a ravine, but the flow of water below the falls is obscured by foreground trees.
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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#SilentSunday
An intimate landscape photo showing fall-colored deciduous trees reflecting the calm, greenish water of a lake.
November 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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The sun will rise in #SanDiego #SouthernCalifornia tomorrow at 6:06, 3546 seconds earlier than the day before.
It will set at 16:54, 3653 seconds earlier than the day before.
🤷
November 2, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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October is over and in my blog, I have the usual End Notes with a look back at this months photographic activities, observations from the trail, and a couple of photos I made this month.

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#PhotoBlog #NaturePhotography #SanDiego #EndNotes #Blogging #Photography
October 2025 End Notes
Fully restored from the vaccine-related K.O. yesterday and with only a slight delay, I’m back to properly celebrate the fact that another end-of-month sneaked up on me. Time for the usual look back at...
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November 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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This Funnel Weaver says Happy Halloween. If you look closely you can see two of the spider's legs. :)

#NaturePhotography #Halloween #Spider #CloseUp #SanDiego #FunnelWeaver
Close-up photo of a spiderweb on the ground, amidst and above small fallen beige and orange leaves of an oak tree. The spiderweb recedes into a funnel and two of the spider's legs can be seen inside.
October 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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#ThrowbackThursday to October 2015 and a lovely hike in the cloud-shrouded forest up at Palomar Mountain in San Diego County.

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#Forest #Mosstodon #SanDiego #Hiking #NaturePhotography #IntimateLandscape #Throwback
An intimate landscape color photo in vertical orientation showing a forest with mossy boulders and moss-covered oak trees in a light fog.
October 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Cherry-picking a few of Lightroom Classic's new features and some thoughts from this landscape & nature photographer's point of view:

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#PhotoBlog #Photography #Lightroom #BlogPost #LightroomClassic
Lightroom Classic 15 News
A few thoughts on the latest updates to Lightroom (Classic) and how relevant they are for landscape and nature photographers.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Helpful video (as usual) from Julieanne Kost: 15 New Features in #Lightroom Classic (v15)

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#Photography #LightroomClassic #Video #Adobe
15 New Features in Lightroom Classic (v15)
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October 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Twilight on the Pacific Crest Trail for #MountainMonday

View of Granite Mountain and Mason Valley from the #PCT in San Diego County, CA.

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#LandscapePhotography #SanDiego #LagunaMountains #Twilight #PacificCrestTrail #Hiking #Sunset #SouthernCalifornia
A landscape photo with a view from nearby hardy low-growing shrubs towards a barren desert landscape. The scene is tinted into the soft colors of post-sunset twilight. The sky is cloudless and clear, with a sliver of orange on the left side adding variation to cool blue.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Seastacks at Crescent City Cove for #SunsetSaturday

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#Seascape #Sunset #LongExposure #NorthernCalifornia #Silhouette #Photography
A wide format color seascape photo showing a group of rocks under evening sky with colorful orange streaks of clouds. A small tree grows on the largest rock, silhouetted against the sky. The ocean in the foreground is rendered smooth and silky with a slow shutter speed.
October 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Don't step on that Sidewinder!

From a desert hike in April 2021. The temperatures were too cool for this Colorado Desert Sidewinder to care much about our presence.

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#Snake #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #Sidewinder #Herpetology #PhotoBlog #ThrowbackThursday
Close-up photo of a small, curled up rattlesnake that blends in very well with the surrounding light grey rocks on the desert floor.
October 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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"Coyote's Castle" for #MountainMonday and #MonochromeMonday

These are sandstone formations in the Coyote Mountains Wilderness, California. Photographed in February 2023.

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#Desert #LandscapePhotography #SanDiego #BlackAndWhite #Landscape #Monochrome
Black & white photo of light sandstone formations in front of a dark, barren ridge in a desert landscape.
October 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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#SilentSunday
A color seascape photo showing roots and stump of an ancient tree embedded in the sand of a beach. Left and behind the tree, the calm water of a creek flows towards the ocean. In the distance, a large rock outcropping with trees is silhouetted against the sunset sky, but also partially obscured by a dense fog.
October 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Commentary: Topaz Goes Subscription #PhotoBlog

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#BlogPost #Software #Photography #TopazLabs #Lightroom
Topaz Goes Subscription
This isn’t exactly news anymore at this point, but I feel compelled to comment on the fact that Topaz Labs has decided to switch to a subscription model for their offerings of “AI” enhancement tools…
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October 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Very nice resource for photographers from @sarahmarinophoto.bsky.social and @roncoscorrosa.bsky.social

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How To Use SmallScenes.Info for Weather Information
Ron shares how we use smallscenes.info to get weather and travel information for our favorite locations. You're welcome to use this free resource, too.
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October 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Brown pelicans overhead. Oceanside, CA, September 2025.

#Wildlife #Birds #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #Pelican #Oceanside #SanDiego #California #BlackAndWhite
A square format black & white photos showing large seabirds in flight, from below, in a clear sky.
October 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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For this lovely #ThrowbackThursday and the middle of the month I have my usual blog post with a look back at photos & activities from ten years ago in October 2015.

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#PhotoBlog #Throwback #Photography #LandscapePhotography #IntimateLandscape #Blogpost
October 2015 Throwback
The monthly photographic throwback with stories and photos from ten years ago, October 2015 edition. This month: an early season storm, and back country hiking.
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October 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Nikon 2025 Photomicrography Competition winners (20 winners & a total of 71 images)

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#Photography #MacroPhotography
2025 Photomicrography Competition
View the winning entries from the 2025 Photomicrography Competition
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October 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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New in my photoblog: "Ode to Lichens" with 18 images.

Yes, I'm celebrating lichens after finding them growing... on our solar panels... 🤔 😅

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#PhotoBlog #LichenSubscribe #NaturePhotography #CloseUp #Lichen #BlogPost #Gallery
Ode to Lichens
The first “wet season” storm for the 2025/2026 water year is in the forecast — quite early, but no complaints! It will mostly impact areas north of San Diego, but in preparation, I climbed onto the…
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October 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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For #MountainMonday

Remnant monsoon clouds light up over the Southern California desert with Garnet Peak and Granite Mountain; seen from Foster Point in San Diego's Laguna Mountains; August 2025.

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#LandscapePhotography #SanDiego #Sunset #LagunaMountains
A landscape photo showing a colorful sunset sky over a semi-arid landscape from a high vantage point. In the foreground are rocks amidst low growing shrubs. Further in the distance, at a lower elevation, the landscape gets more barren and dry.
October 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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#SilentSunday
A color landscape photo showing a winter scene with trees silhouetted in backlight from the low sun. In the foreground a row of dry reeds catches some of the low sun as well, behind the trees a river's calm water reflects the light. The sky is almost clear, but hazy.
October 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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I'll be showing over 80 images in the 2025 Autumn Lights Festival. Here's a little teaser clip of my garden video installation. bit.ly/RainHayes_Ni...

There are still tickets available for this awesomely fun family event, Oct 16 - 18 in Oakland, CA.
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#photography #flowers
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October 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM