This image is part of my long term study of the Lake Tahoe region. More of my Tahoe work can be found at Lake Tahoe photography. For information on my best-selling monograph, visit Lake Tahoe: A Fragile Beauty (Chronicle Books).
This image is part of my long term study of the Lake Tahoe region. More of my Tahoe work can be found at Lake Tahoe photography. For information on my best-selling monograph, visit Lake Tahoe: A Fragile Beauty (Chronicle Books).
Stormy Sunset. Sugar Pine Point State Park. Lake Tahoe.
This image is part of my long term study of the Lake Tahoe region. More of my Tahoe work can be found at Lake Tahoe photography. For information on my best-selling monograph, visit Lake Tahoe: A Fragile Beauty (Chronicle Books).
Only one more month for this outstanding show on the Tahoe / Donner region at the Nevada Museum of Art. Two of my prints are featured in the contemporary photography gallery.
Emerald Bay by Ansel Adams 1940.Three Seconds on the Fourth of July. Emerald Bay. Thomas Bachand 2003. Tahoe: A Visual History. Nevada Museum of Art. 2015.
Laundromat. Tahoma, California. Tahoe: A Visual History. Nevada Museum of Art. 2015.
This work is part of my long term study of the Lake Tahoe region. More of my Tahoe work can be found at Lake Tahoe photography. For information on my best-selling monograph, visit Lake Tahoe: A Fragile Beauty (Chronicle Books).
Streambank. General Creek Watershed. Sugar Pine Point State Park. Lake Tahoe.
This work is part of my long term study of the Lake Tahoe region. More of my Tahoe work can be found at Lake Tahoe photography. For information on my best-selling monograph, visit Lake Tahoe: A Fragile Beauty (Chronicle Books).
This image is part of the Nevada Museum of Art’s current exhibit Tahoe: A Visual History. It is a very comprehensive show covering everything from Washoe basketry and 19th C. paintings to contemporary photography and maps. Not to be missed.
The Nevada Museum of Art is currently showing Tahoe: A Visual History, the most comprehensive exhibit on Tahoe, ever. Curator Ann Wolf has covered it all: Washoe basketry, 19th C. paintings, sculpture, historic and contemporary photography, maps, modern art, and more. This show is not to be missed.
Toujours Magazine: Interiors. Lifestyle. Attainable Beauty.
Kudos to Toujours Magazine on their Color Issue – just in time to lift our winter greys. This one is a bit closer to my heart as it features Tahoe Blues, an 11-page spread of my Tahoe writing and photography (pages 84 – 95). Check it out. Insightful. Interesting. Inspiring.
Three Seconds on the Fourth of July, Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, California
Inhabiting the center of my book Lake Tahoe: A Fragile Beauty, both literally and figuratively, is a series of images on Emerald Bay. As Tahoe’s most recognizable landmark, this is only fitting. The first half of the book deals with open landscapes and the details within. The second half features, what I term, intersecting landscapes, those views that give us insight into our own experience vis-a-vie the land.
Emerald Bay has always been central to the Tahoe experience. For newcomers, the striking relief of Emerald Bay, overshadowed by glacier-carved granite peaks, is a mandatory stop. Many hike to the Vikingsholm at the base of the bay, and imagine a romantic past. The avalanche scar reminds of us of the unintended consequences of our own actions. To me, Emerald seemed the perfect location to illustrate our transient relationship with the landscape.
The idea of a series came to me at the local market while I was observing another photographer, one I’d never met, discussing his own book of photography on Lake Tahoe. “Another picture of Emerald Bay,” the shopkeeper said with a hint of dismay as she flipped through his book. “Ouch,” I said to myself. It was a familiar photographer’s trap: shoot first ask questions later. What did I want to say about Emerald? What does Emerald have to say about Tahoe? I knew if I could capture the power of Emerald Bay, it would translate to the whole of Tahoe. In the series, the frame stays the same while it is the lake that changes, transformed by weather, light, and time.