Weddings in Tahoe: Chris Werner Photography is a Lake Tahoe wedding photogapher.
Surely we’ve all closed our eyes at some point and imagined a place we’d rather be. Somewhere warm. Somewhere sunny. A place where the sun warms your back, the wind rustles the leaves of palm trees and nine to five means nothing. When things get crazy, I remember our time on the island. When things...
One of Lake Tahoe’s local bears knows a good BBQ when he smells one. During the Sierra Nevada’s recent barrage of Spring snowstorms, a High Sierra black bear turned up at a street-side party. Despite initial reactions of caution, Tahoe locals attending the event were quick to step aside and share sizzling hot dogs, summer...
When I was 6, we had a subscription to National Geographic. There are three things I haven’t forgotten about that yellow magazine: 1. Its mass. Holding a single issue, the glossy cover image was framed by sharp edges and crisp corners. It was heavy, the pages thick and shiny as I turned them. 2. The...
There is a paradox about islands that seems to speak not only to our own mixed feelings about far off places, but to the experience of spending extended periods of time with ourselves. Robinson Crusoe. Prospero and Miranda. Ralph, Piggy and Jack from Lord of the Flies. Tom Hanks and Wilson. Gilligan and the Swiss...
Zanzibar. Few places in the world conjure up such exotic images of white sand beaches, turquoise water and a melange of eastern cultures as ancient as the spice trade itself. Officially a semi-autonomous region of Tanzania, this small archipelago off the eastern coast of Africa is an experience unlike any other. Having just spent the...