Bill Stevenson Photography

Bill Stevenson Photography Helping interior designers, professional offices, and art collectors by providing exceptional fine art photographic prints for interior spaces.

Bill also conducts photography tours and workshops and accepts commercial assignments

I'm living down in the Bay Area these days and there's no shortage of beautiful oak trees to photograph.
06/16/2026

I'm living down in the Bay Area these days and there's no shortage of beautiful oak trees to photograph.

05/07/2026

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED.....?

Have you ever wondered about where your life’s headed and about what makes it worthwhile? Then perhaps you can relate to the following.
After a lifetime spent in the mountains climbing, skiing, and taking photographs, now at age 70, I’ve been wrestling with questions I never used to ask myself. Questions about purpose. About aging. About whether I still have the energy to keep doing the things that once defined me.
And honestly, part of me wondered, if I wrote about this in a Facebook post, would anyone even care. But I took a chance and hit the Post button.
What surprised me wasn’t the number of responses. It was the honesty in them. Friends I haven’t heard from in years opened up in ways I didn’t expect. And people I’ve never met did so as well.
Here’s just one comment. A woman wrote:
“Hey Bill
I can relate to so much that you just said. There are moments when I also question what it is I’m doing and whether I want to continue to make art for other people. I also need meaning and a reason to be alive. I have also been fighting some health issues and hopefully I’m slowly getting them solved so I can relate to that as well. Good for you for finding meaning in the mountains. I miss Truckee so much because of the mountains and the lakes and the beauty and the people.
I hope this message finds you well.

Several days later I’m still touched by her words and those of the others who commented. Not because they were dramatic. But because they came from the heart.
I think many of us reach a certain age and quietly carry these thoughts around without saying them out loud. We wonder what happens when the identity we built over decades starts shifting beneath our feet. We wonder what still matters. We wonder if other people feel this too.
Apparently they do.
I was moved by the connection that was made.
This was a real moment for me.

For over a decade I lived in the Pacific Northwest not far from Panther Creek Falls. This time I was just passing throug...
05/05/2026

For over a decade I lived in the Pacific Northwest not far from Panther Creek Falls. This time I was just passing through, however, making images of waterfalls after 40 years away, and re-visiting places from another life.
We drove past my old home in Parkdale on the flanks of Mount Hood, and I thought of my best friend, Bear the dog, who lived across the street. Then we drove up to Timberline Lodge on the south side of the mountain, and at one point I thought I just might cry looking up at the peak that I’d climbed many times in the far away past. I’d had many amazing days climbing and skiing on the slopes of Hood. It was those experiences that moulded me and set me off on my life’s path.
By the time we reached Panther Creek Falls to photograph, I was carrying all of that with me.
The falls are easy to reach, just a short walk from the road. But once you’re there you feel enclosed by the dense forest of tall evergreen trees. A cold mist from the pounding water was hanging in the air. The light was breaking through the forest at just the right angle, catching the spray and creating a small rainbow. The moss around the rocks was a deep, vivid green. Everything felt perfect.
I stayed for about an hour, mostly working on the photographs, looking for the right framing and balance. It’s a place that almost arranges itself, composition-wise. You don’t have to force much. But underneath that, I was aware of something else. A kind of serene melancholy upon returning to somewhere familiar combined with the awareness of how much time had passed.
Eventually the cold got into me and I had to leave.
Panther Creek Falls was a place that held two things at once for me - both beautiful artwork, and also, memories of things that came before.

An image from last fall of El Capitan and the Merced River.
02/18/2026

An image from last fall of El Capitan and the Merced River.

The beautiful Mount Ama Dablam near Everest. On this evening clouds were moving up the valley to the base of the peak li...
02/13/2026

The beautiful Mount Ama Dablam near Everest. On this evening clouds were moving up the valley to the base of the peak like waves.

This is a photo from last fall in Yosemite. It's called Cloud Forest for obvious reasons.
02/12/2026

This is a photo from last fall in Yosemite. It's called Cloud Forest for obvious reasons.

A winter sunrise looking across Lake Tahoe towards Mount Tallac
02/12/2026

A winter sunrise looking across Lake Tahoe towards Mount Tallac

A sweet sunset at Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz.
02/05/2026

A sweet sunset at Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz.

This is a recent photo of Pidgeon Point lighthouse on the California coast south of Half Moon Bay. The name of the image...
01/26/2026

This is a recent photo of Pidgeon Point lighthouse on the California coast south of Half Moon Bay. The name of the image is Solder.

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