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David Husted
In 1997 I was just getting into hiking and backpacking. I was using a cheap 35mm point and shoot camera to document my first wilderness hiking adventure—the Dinkey Lakes. A year later I was starting to familiarize myself with SLRs and look towards some educational avenues for photography. I was using my Dad’s 35mm Cannon AE-1 to document my growing passion for my desire to explore the Sierras and document my travels along the way. Over the next couple of years; I took some basic photography classes alongside my general college education, and spent about $1,000 or so on some camera equipment—pretty much the same stuff I have now, just not nearly as good. In 2007, I purchased my first DSLR—a very nice one too. I also began to invest serious sums of money in additional & better; hiking equipment, camera lenses, and additional camera equipment to match my talent as a photographer which was ever-so-growing quickly. I started to expand my main discipline of wilderness photography to other avenues of photography that I had less experience in, such as portrait and architectural photography. This has made me a better landscape photographer, seeing as people and buildings do show-up in my pictures from time to time. I’ve seen a lot over the past 15+ years that I’ve been geotagging all of these places that I visit. On a timely-note, the manner in which someone like myself prepares him or herself for an adventure into the wilderness or place not visited before, has changed dramatically. In the old days, the Internet didn’t exist and other than pricey picture books or even more pricey guides and/or travel services, it was hit and miss as to whether a place was a good as it looked or rumors had it. With the aid of digital photography, the Internet, social media, photo-sharing sites, and especially Google Earth, that answer as to whether a place is worth your while or not, has become much less uncertain. With dedicated and passionate individuals like myself, whom make all-out strives with their spare-time to bring good, depictive, and beautiful pictures of these places for all those to see with just the click of a mouse, it’s so much easier to plan your travels these days. Best-of-all, “IT’S FREE!” With all of my hard work and dedication to give this information to the public for free, I’m determined that someday I will have amassed the attention of some individual and/or group or organization that will open the door to or the start of a career opportunity in documentary, sort of like National Geographic or Bear Grylls “Man vs. Wild.” What drives me to do this regardless if that last part happens or not is that I have a lot of fun doing what I do and even more so, showing people my pictures and accounts of these places. That in itself is rewarding enough for me.
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- Alameda
- Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest
- Arch Rock Pass
- Armona
- Atwater
- Auberry
- Bakersfield
- Banner Peak
- Bass Lake
- Bear Creek
- best
- Bishop Pass
- Cattle Mtn
- Cayucos
- Chowcilla
- Clovis
- Coalinga
- Coarsegold
- Cottonwood Lakes
- Courtright Reservoir
- Crown Pass
- CSUF
- Cutler
- Davenport
- Delano
- Dinuba
- Dos Palos
- Eagle Beak Peaks
- Edison Lake
- Elderwood
- Exeter
- Firebaugh
- Florence Lake
- Fowler
- French Trail
- Fresno
- Fresno City College
- Glacier Point
- Goodale Pass
- Granite Creek
- Graveyard Peak
- Gustine
- Half Dome--Yosemite
- Hamilton Valley
- Hanford
- Hetch Hetchy Reservoir
- Highway 395
- Hospitals
- Huntington Lake
- I-5
- Independence
- Isberg Pass
- Ivanhoe
- Jackass Rock
- Kaiser Pass
- Kaiser Wilderness
- Kerman
- Keys
- Kingsburg
- Lake Italy
- Lake Kaweah
- Laton
- Lemon Cove
- Lemoore
- Lindcove
- Lindsay
- Livingston
- Los Baños
- Los Osos
- Madera
- Mammoth Lakes
- Mammoth Mountain
- Mammoth Pool Reservoir
- Mariposa
- Mendota
- Merced
- Millerton Lake
- Mineral King
- Minerets Road
- Minkler
- Modesto
- Mojave Desert
- Morro Rock--Morro Bay
- Mount Dade
- Mount Darwin
- Mount Hilgard
- Mount Hooper
- Mount Humphreys
- Mount Lamarck-Lamarck Col
- Mount Ritter
- Mount Russell
- Mount Sill
- Mount Tom
- Mount Whitney
- Newman
- Nine Lakes Basin
- Nipinnawasse
- North Fork
- Oakhurst
- Orange Cove
- Orosi
- Ownes Lake
- Patterson
- Pear Lake Trail
- Piedra
- Pismo Beach
- Piute Pass
- Planada
- Poplar
- Porterville
- Red Mt. Basin
- Red Mtn.
- Redinger Lake CA
- Reedly
- Rock Creek
- Rush Creek
- Sacramento
- San Dimas
- San Francisco
- San Joaquin River
- San Luis Obispo
- San Simeon
- Sanger
- Santa Maria
- Santa Nella Village
- Sawtooth Pass
- Selma
- Seven Gables
- Shadow Creek Trail
- Shaver Lake
- Shuteye Peak
- Shuteye Trail
- Sierra View Point Vista
- Silver Pass
- Southern Sierrra Nevada Mountains
- Springville
- Stockton
- Stratford
- Strathmore
- Tehachapi
- Terra Bella
- The Blackcap Basin
- The Dinkey Lakes
- The Dusy Basin
- The High Sierra Trail
- The High Sierra Trail Sequoia NP
- The Mammoth Minarets
- The Palisades
- The River BNSF
- The Salton Sea
- Thousand Island Lake
- Three Rivers
- Tipton
- Trains
- Tulare
- Turlock
- Visalia
- W North Bear Creek
- Wasco
- Whisky Falls
- White Bark Vista
- White Mountains
- Wishon Reservoir
- Woodlake
- Woodward Park
- Yosemite
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David,
Your page:
http://hikenhi.smugmug.com/ is really well done!
I wish you peace and tranquility and Safety on your next adventure that we talked about. I am looking forward to seeing your photos.
Randy
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We (Carpi USA) used the tram extensively to reface Agnew, Gem, and Waugh between 2006 and 2010. Built around 1911 to build the dams themselves. Had to be inspected by roller coaster folks.
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Nice composition!
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One of the beautiful small cities of the valley, i like!!
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Indeed, thanks for sharing!
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Very beautiful colors, i like!!
Lizab.
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Ah Joe Crane Lake looks to be a fantastic spot! Great shots. I guess we hiked right below it on a 4 day loop going over Post Peak Pass and then Isberg Pass. I remember seeing the sign. We went over the stream (below Joe Crane Lake) from the north and went south up an unmaintained trail to camp by a little bitty pond up on a shelf on our last night.
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Awesome :)
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