Author: Michael Fuchs Photography

Hills freshly green from spring rain.  This is a low altitude aerial photograph that I took north east of Santa Barbara.

I photographed these two green sea turtles along the northwest coast of Oahu, Hawaii. The two turtles had completely different personalities.  The one in the foreground was very friendly and wanted to check out the clear glass dome on the front of my camera.  However, the turtle in the background (on the left) was very aggressive to us and the other turtle.

I took this seascape at sunset along the central California coast. I’ve always liked how rough and rocky the Pacific coast is.

This is a dormant cinder cone volcano that I photographed over Canoncito Navajo Tribal land in west/central New Mexico.  It is quite a dry and barren area.  I think it almost looks like Mars.

I took this photograph near Caliente, California.  I have always liked the area for landscape and small wildlife photography.  This is open ranch land. Most of the year, the hills are the classic California tawny color, but sometimes in the spring, if the rain has been good, the hills turn a beautiful green.  On this particular day, the weather was not cooperating and the light was grey and flat, but for just a minute, a gap in the clouds opened up and let some beautiful evening light shine across the hills.  I like the way the light makes the hills look like something out of an illustrated storybook.

I always like looking up at rays of sunlight coming down through water.