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Pacific Landscapes Gallery by Steve Lefko

Powerful images of nature keeping us connected and balanced. Pacific Landscapes Gallery is located at 1512 Park Ave, Emeryville, CA 94608.

Phone is 510-999-7001. Creating images of the natural world helps shape my spiritual understanding of life, along with broadening my skills as a naturalist. The rhythms of outdoor life are primal and fundamental. I find them meditative, inspirational and rejuvenating. Hopefully, my work reflects that to you the viewer. As an artist, I strongly believe that art should be emotionally and intellectua

lly accessible to all, and not require an advanced degree to appreciate or interpret. I love creating images that need no advance preparation to appreciate (though they are often enhanced by the story behind them.) I created this site as an easy way to share images, and encourage bring one or more into a home or office. I encourage calling to discuss the work, the preparation of prints or canvases, and the availability of images not on this website.

03/24/2023

Wonder and Awe and Delight

Last night over Yellowstone, the full beauty of the night sky erupted like the geysers below. The aurora borealis and another phenomenon known as STEVE (no relation) put on a post-dinner show.

Depicted are a panorama of the northern lights, as well as several examples of STEVE. Plus, an astral portrait of .Gagliardi making his own art.

“On March 23-24, auroras spread into the United States as far south as New Mexico (+32.8N) during a severe (category G4) geomagnetic storm--the most intense in nearly 6 years. The cause of the storm is still unclear.” ~SpaceWeather.com

STEVE (Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement) looks like an aurora, but it is not. The phenomenon is caused by hot (3000°C) ribbons of gas flowing through Earth’s magnetosphere at speeds exceeding 6 km/s (13,000 mph). These ribbons appear during strong geomagnetic storms, revealing themselves by their soft purple glow.

02/25/2023

Harriers chase short eared owls for food, and owls fight back. One year ago, this short eared owl proactively chased this harrier from its turf, so that it could hunt in peace. Amazing to see the ancient raptor-on-raptor struggle play out close at hand.

February 24, 2022

01/13/2023

One of the amazing things about seeing humpback whales underwater is the sustained eye contact. My instinct as a social mammal is to see if we can maintain the connection long enough for our instinctual query - “can we be friends?”

Back in August of 2019, I got to have that experience with this young whale who swam, spy hopped and made close passes by us and engaged in deep, questioning eye contact. When it left us, it swam slowly and closely by us, close enough that it could have touched us with the tiniest twitch of its pectoral fin. The folds in its smooth skin were close enough to regard how deep they were.

We left the water as high as can be from the encounter. A personal close encounter. First contact. Pick your sci-fi metaphor, we went through the portal and lived in the alternative universe for an hour.

Paraphrasing General MacArthur when he left the South Pacific (and the Terminator) - “I’ll be back.”

August 2019

12/11/2022

Dawn of the Ocean Giants 3

Feeding, breaching, trumpeting and a convergence of ocean and airborne species. It was quite a sunset rampage of feeding humpback whales back on October 19, 2022 in Monterey Bay, California.

11/27/2022

Lights out, and the curtain rises on nature’s second act of the day. Humans glide along, often unaware how much goes on in the dark. The earth cools, and predators hunt their prey that awakens to forage. The owls come out with the stars.

And stars emerge, to highlight the nightly show of color in the sky. Along the Grand Canyon one recent evening, airglow turned the pre-dawn sky bright green.

Encyclopedia Brittanica defines airglow as “faint luminescence of Earth's upper atmosphere that is caused by air molecules' and atoms' selective absorption of solar ultraviolet and X-radiation.” (And airglow is not the Aurora borealis, an interaction between the earth’s magnetic field and solar energy that can appear as green or yellow or purple/red.)

As an atmospheric phenomena, it’s continuous. We just don’t see dayglow in the daytime because the sun is too bright.

One of nature’s many reminders that awareness and perception depend on timing and perspective.

Grand Canyon National Park
November 2022

11/22/2022

Sunrise Halo

4AM on the Alaska tundra in June: the exhale halo of a waking grizzly signals the start of another day of foraging, and attempting to meet a mate.

11/18/2022

The apex where the undersea meets air, meets sunshine from deep space. Thanks to Bill and Slater for making this once-in-a-lifetime feeding frenzy at sunset appear like a wonderful dream.

October 19, 2022

11/11/2022

A quick visit to one of the newer slot canyon sites in the Antelope Canyon area. This one is Antelope Canyon-x, a few miles down from Upper Antelope. Image here thanks to my guide Van.

10/30/2022

Front row seats to the killer whale ballet this past Friday October 28, 2022 on Monterey Bay. Their art was transcendent, woven throughout their hunting exercises and occasional feeding.

10/20/2022

Talbot-esque

When I was about 12, every mall in America sold breathtaking posters of dolphins and whales from an artist named Bob Talbot. An iconic image with a black printed frame, and “TALBOT” printed, branding each image. I immediately fell in love with a couple and put them on the wall of my room.

As I got older, I’d hear photographers mention the great nature photographers. After a certain escalation, an older person would half-whisper “Bob Talbot”, and we’d all acknowledge his OG greatness and wonder where he was now.

Turns out that Bob is only a few years older me and lives near enough that I get to see him fairly often. He’s no ghost. (He was just a very talented teenager 40 years ago.) He often points out that in addition to great animal sightings, you also need great light to make a great whale image. Sunrise or sunset light. Light rich enough to make dripping water look like orange syrup.

Slater and I talked last night about waiting around until “TALBOT time.” And we did. And this happened. Thank you Bob for codifying a rule we image makers can live by.

10/05/2022

Spirit bear portrait, Gitga’at Nation, British Columbia. September 2022

09/03/2022

Just a little solo humpback whale lunge feeding, in the midst of a “horn of plenty” (of anchovies.) Happy holiday weekend to all!

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1512 Park Avenue
Emeryville, CA
94608

Opening Hours

Thursday	4pm - 8pm
Friday	4pm - 8pm
Sunday	11am - 3pm

Telephone

+14087185136

Website

http://www.pacific-landscapes.com/

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