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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. https://www.alex-kunz.com https://mas.to/@alexskunz

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Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 12h

Thundering Yosemite Falls in spring, seen from the Mist Trail in Yosemite National Park, California; May 2024.

#WaterfallWednesday #Yosemite #Waterfall #LandscapePhotography #NationalParks #California #Photography #Landscape

Color landscape photo showing a mountain scene with a waterfall. The waterfall's lower part is obscured by a ridge of granitic rock in the front. Small trees and shrubs are growing amidst the rocks. The distant waterfall appears in a blue haze. No sky is visible in the photo.

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Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 2d

Looks so natural

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Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 2d

"Baker Blues" for #MountainMonday

Photo from September 2022 when we met @mrussellphoto.bsky.social & Alan Majchrowicz for a hike. The blue haze was induced by relatively distant wildfires.

#Mountains #Hiking #LandscapePhotography #Washington #MountBaker

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A color landscape photo showing a grouping of mountains and ridges receding into blue, wildfire-induced haze under a clear sky. The landscape is sparsely vegetated with low-growing shrubs and a few groups of coniferous trees.

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Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 3d

#SilentSunday

A long exposure seascape photo showing a coastal rock formation under soft, cloud filtered light, and breaking waves behind the rocks rendered into a smooth blur. The location of the photo is Solana Beach in San Diego County, California.

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Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 5d

Thank you! 😁

Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 5d

San Diego's new "water year" has begun on Oct 1st, and we're hoping for a wetter winter than the last one! Here's an old photo from 2011, after a particularly wet winter.

A few more in my blog: www.alex-kunz.com/happy-new-wa...

#SanDiego #Photography #LandscapePhotography #Water #IntimateLandscape

An intimate landscape photo showing a creek flowing between rocks. The scene is backlit and a small sycamore tree grows amidst the rocks, its foliage glowing bright.

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Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 8d

On the blog, as usual for the end of the month, my End Notes — September 2025 edition!

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#PhotoBlog #Photography #BlogPost #Weblog #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #EndNotes

September 2025 End Notes

Much to everyone’s surprise, another month is coming to an end, and as usual, I’m looking back at this month’s activities, with observations of the weather and from the trail…

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Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 11d

With "photo" as a sketch you mean what initially comes out of the camera? I agree.

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Pete Tellone @petertellone.bsky.social · 11d

Alabama Hills, California
#BlueSkyArtShow #TheRoad

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Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 11d

New blog post: Why We Edit Our Photos

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#PhotoBlog #Photography #BlogPost #Why

Why We Edit Our Photos

Recently, I received an email with a seemingly simple question: why do we edit our photos? The email was a little more elaborate, actually, and I thought the questions were really good: What are the…

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Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 12d

For #FlowerFriday here are some Purple Chinese Houses (Collinsia heterophyllia), photographed in spring. I particularly like how the color pattern repeats in the out of focus areas behind the flower. :)

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#Flowers #BloomScrolling #CloseUp #SanDiego #Spring

Vertical close-up photo of Collinsia heterophylla (Purple Chinese Houses), a white and purple wildflower with multiple flowers on a single inflorescence stalk.

Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 13d

You're officially a train spotter now, Pete.

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Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 13d

"Ents"

#ThrowbackThursday to September 2010 when I went for an evening walk at a set of forest ponds that I visited often while I still lived in Germany. Fall was in the air!

More photos of the location: www.alex-kunz.com/portfolio/hu...

#IntimateLandscape #Fall #Forest #NaturePhotography #Autumn

A forest photo showing tall deciduous trees with thin trunks, growing at the edge of a forest pond with calm water. The trees reflect in the water and their foliage is beginning to turn.

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Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 15d

Thank you, Rain! Maybe German engravings are... engraved? into my subconscious German self. 😅

Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 15d

"Heart of Oak" for #TreeTuesday

Coast Live Oaks trunks appear to form the shape of a human heart with its chambers. Photographed at Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve, San Diego, California.

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#BlackAndWhite #Trees #SanDiego #CoastLiveOak #NaturePhotography

Square format black & white photo. The trunks of old oak trees form the shape of a human heart with its chambers.

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Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 16d

For #MountainMonday I have this elevated view of the Southern California desert landscape, disappearing in monsoonal haze. Seen from the Laguna Crest in San Diego County.

#LandscapePhotography #Mountains #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #LagunaMountains #SanDiego #SouthernCalifornia #MonochromeMonday

A black & white landscape photo made from an elevated viewpoint, looking across barren ridges of a desert landscape under monsoon clouds. Light breaks through the clouds here and there, painting light and shadow onto the landscape.

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Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 17d

That's great! Thundercloud & song dogs, what a combination! 😁

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Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center @anzaborrego.bsky.social · 17d

Clear view of lightning withing a thunderstorm cell that was building over Clark Dry Lake and Rabbit Peak on 9-18-25. As seen that evening from Coyote Canyon where the coyotes joined in for a howl fest for a while.

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Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 17d

#SilentSunday

A black & white seascape photo showing large, round-shaped coastal rocks surrounded by water. The water is rendered very smooth and silky with a long exposure time (slow shutter speed).

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Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 17d

I'm impressed, Pete! ;)

Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 17d

“The whole cosmos has come together in order to help the flower manifest herself.” (Thich Nhat Hanh)

#Quotes #BloomScrolling #NaturePhotography #Larkspur #Delphinium #Zen #Wildflowers #Flowers #CloseUp

Close-up photo showing a larkspur wildflower inflorescence with many individual blue flowers that have white fringes.

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Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 18d

Miau! (just like in German, haha)

Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 18d

Never say never, but this may very well be the only #Caturday contribution I'll ever be able to make. :)

Street cat in Fornalutx, Mallorca, Spain; March 2008.

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#StreetPhotography #Mallorca #Cats

Photo showing a small cat on a roof of old corrugated plastic roofing. The cat is cleaning itself, licking one paw. Under the roof is a sign on the wall "Private Toilettes".

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Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 18d

Blog post: "A Few Photo Storage Insights" (and hot takes;-)

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#Photography #PhotoBlog #Backup #Storage #BlogPost

A Few Photo Storage Insights

More or less recently, I’ve been following some conversations about photo storage, and these often have a tendency to turn into geeky discussions where nerds get to throw around all the buzzwords: NAS...

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Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 19d

The land with this beautiful waterfalls is currently for sale and the San Diego River Park Foundation is raising funds to purchase & conserve it forever.

More info is here: sandiegoriver.org/mildredfalls/

Share? Thanks!

#Conservation #Waterfall #SanDiego #LandscapePhotography #FundRaising

Photo of a rocky landscape vegetated with low growing shrubs. A waterfall flows over a cliff of light brown rocks and falls into a canyon in deep shade. The hills are illuminated by angled late afternoon light. The sky is clear and blue.

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