Category: photojournalism
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High Snow Levels, Powerful Winds, Heavy Rain at the Start of the Current Atmospheric River Event
The wind and rain has been impressive, but snow levels remain high, as has been the case during many of our storms so far this winter. This image of the Upper Truckee River was taken today, at approximately 6,500 ft. The river rose from 15 cfs to about 250 cfs during the current atmospheric river…
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Tahoe Quarterly: Through the Lens
Through the lens feature in the Fall 2024 issue of Tahoe Quarterly. “IN NATURE, art is infinite, from its most obvious forms—Lake Tahoe’s shimmering blue surface, for example—to its most unlikely sources. Like dead trees. Whether gnarled from the elements, blackened by wildfire or waterlogged on a rocky shoreline, the wood of any given dead…
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Unseasonably Cool Weather Moves through the Sierra Nevada Mountains
It’s still August, but it felt more like late October this past weekend as an unseasonably cool weather system moved through the Sierra Nevada mountains. I took this image at about 8,000 ft during a hike just south of the Lake Tahoe basin. While we didn’t experience any snow on this hike (only rain), temperatures…
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Park Fire Images
While on an unrelated trip we found ourselves driving through Chico, CA as the massive and destructive Park Fire blew up. Here are some of the images that I took from vantage points around the fire on the afternoon of July 25, 2024. The pyrocumulus cloud was visible from well over 100 miles to the…
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South Lake Tahoe Digs out After “Leap Year Blizzard”
The city of South Lake Tahoe digs out as the “Leap Year Blizzard” comes to an end. South Lake Tahoe, CA. 3.4.24 Please direct media/licensing inquiries to info@davidnbraun.com or direct message me here.
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Low Fire Danger Summer, Controlled Burns
After the massive winter of 2022-2023 we had the luxury of not worrying much about fire in the Sierra Nevada mountains and conditions were ideal for more extensive controlled burning throughout the summer and into the fall. View from an overlook above Mono Lake with a controlled burn near highway 395 in the distance. Now…
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Highway 1 North Coast — Car Flies off Road in Rain and Fog
After shooting a race in Sonoma County I drove along the coast to find opportunities for landscape photography, but there was no break in the weather … Highway 1 on the north coast (California) is not to be taken lightly in heavy rain and dense fog. Fortunately, those in this vehicle were able to hike…
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Nevada Magazine: Road Trips — Free Range Art Highway
Images published in the most recent issue of Nevada Magazine in a road trip story on the “Free-Range Art Highway.” The stretch of highway (US-95) from Reno to Vegas is known for it’s ghost towns and eccentric characteristics, with plenty of unique roadside attractions. Image 1: Wild burro standing alone outside of Beatty just before…
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Tahoe Daily Tribune: “Standing Rock Supporters Celebrate DAPL Decision”
Coverage of a Lake Tahoe gathering to benefit the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline.
David N. Braun Photography 