John, your photos are amazingly beautiful. God has most assuredly blessed you with the gift of vision and insight into the human soul. Because you've embraced that gift and have shared it with us, I am truly blessed. Thank you.

Me too! I'm excitedly looking forward to seeing your pictures from the convention this fall. And in the meantime - more like you have shown us - portraits, cityscenes, landscapes.

Riverside Mission Inn, CA

My dad, pastor, church school teacher, administrator, author, founding principal of Orangewood Adventist Academy, and one of the first teachers to serve at San Pasqual. Now 93 years young.

Author of The Urgent Voice, a biography of William Miller

I remember it was not far from the Loreley
Photographed with my first camera, a primitive Instamatic 110.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loreley

Germany-- formerly "West Germany"

I served in the US Army as a field medic, being stationed for about 6 months near Worms where Martin Luther was asked to recant his writings and teachings.

Wish we had police stations like this building. It was built in the early 1700s.

Gosenheim is a suburb of Mainz, Germany.

Mother and Grandmother, both resting now in the blessed hope of the resurrection.

Joshua Tree National Park

Near Fifth St. and Los Angeles Ave.

At Grandmother's during Christmas visit

Restaurant in Paris, France, made famous by Ernest Hemingway as a place where he wrote and enjoyed meals with James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Ford Maddox Ford, Morley Callaghan, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Figures prominently in A Movable Feast.

Gosenheim is a suburb of Mainz, Germany

Eastern edge of Oak Valley, Riverside Co.

Paris, France

That young man looks alot like Buddy Holly.

You know, you're right. I hadn't thought of that. I assume that's kind of a complement.

Loma Linda, CA
This sculpture was made by Alan Colins but was vandalized twice and eventually had to be replaced by a bronze sculpture.

Sadly, the Good Samaritan's head was broken off two times, and it appears it may have been racially motivated because as you can see, Colins portrayed the Samaritan as a black man.

The original sculpture sat between the university library and the University Medical Center and was intended to represent the mission of the hospital and the university.

Close up of the Good Samaritan and the Jew.
Sculpture no longer exists.

Well-known and highly regarded Adventist editor, author, evangelist, theologian, and teacher.

Taken in his home in Loma Linda about a year before his death.

Aaron James Patrick, 3 years old.

This building appeared in the film, American Quilt, and is located only a few blocks from where I live.

Part of series on California trailer courts. Polaroid.

Riverside Co., CA

Taken at the Denver Botanic Gardens

Part of working project on street-life in LA.

On Navaho Reservation in Northwestern Arizona. Polaroid.

Lake has been privatized so public can no longer fish in its waters.

In a "hobo jungle" near the Southern Pacific train yards. The professional hobo and their camps are a thing of the past.

Property on which the museum sits once belonged to Henry Huntington, who brought the Southern Pacific rails to California.

A place John Steinbeck knew well and wrote about in his books, Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat.

Riverside County, CA

Polaroid.

I went to see the 1st Alien movie at that theatre.

I've never been inside it. I imagine it's pretty nice. When were you there?

Downtown Arcata has some interesting architecture. Also, the people I met there-- I was in grad school at the university and had lots of time to take in the town-- reminded me of what people were like in the late 60s. Seemed like a town stuck in a time groove.

Bodie is in northern California, near the Nevada border. To reach it one must travel about 60 miles over rough, dirt road. But well worth it to any who enjoy a true ghost town and are interested in the history of the West.

This was my first photograph in a project of photographing trailer courts throughout Southern California. I was at first skeptical of its potential but I soon found that it is a gold-mine of wonderful images.

I simply walk through trailer parks with my camera and photograph anything that seems to me to best reflect my sense of the character of the place and of the people living there. I find that even after 9/11, people are friendly and welcome a good conversation on their porches and even in their trailers. Soon I plan to include photographs of the denizens in their homes and later I will also record their voices telling about their lives there.

Pasadena Art Center, College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Stock Car Races, National Orange Show Grounds.

Old Garage, Gas Station, Store.
No longer exists.