GoldenStateImages.com

Natural History Photography of California
The Stock Photography Resource for California Marine Wildlife & Coastal Scenic Images
 
 

Providing Signature California Images for
Corporate, Advertising, Editorial and General Stock Use

Golden State Images is a digital stock agency specializing in California natural history photography. From the finest of California's scenic locations to its spectacular marine wildlife, our online library contains a diverse range of California specific material. From coastal scenics to city scapes, mountains, valleys and deserts, to whales, dolphin and sharks, you will find it here.

Whether it's for corporate, advertising, editorial or general stock use, our goals are to provide professional service and the finest quality images available which capture the beauty and diversity which is California.

Search our image library or Browse by Subject Categories

The Photographer

"My passion in photography is striving to capture the critical instant in each opportunity. That unique moment when all the elements of an image come together."


Brigitte Patel (C) 2008


In addition to being an avid wildlife and scenic photographer, Randy Morse is the IT Director for a Civil Engineering Company based in San Diego. He has been capturing images in California, both above and beneath the oceans surface for well over twenty years. Widely published in books, magazines and other media, his images have been recognized with numerous awards, including being a past winner of Nikon's International Photographic Championships.

In addition to stock material, we offer
Assignment Photographic Services

 


Client List - Examples Include:
NBC Universal Harcourt Publishing Time Life
REI Wells Fargo Monterey Bay Aquarium
California Bank & Trust Allianz Global Investors University of San Diego
REMAX Real Estate CNN Westways Magazine
National Geographic Outdoor Photographer Magazine Mc Graw-Hill Publishing
Nature Conservancy World Wildlife Fund  

About the Images

The wildlife images represented on this site are of wild animals photographed in their natural enviornments.

No images have been digitally manipulated or altered in anyway, other than to adjust sharpness, brightness and contrast for appropriate display on a computer monitor. With few exceptions, all are displayed full frame as originally shot. Information on deliverable file formats

With the exception of the Beyond California section, all wildlife and scenic images displayed on this site represent species and locations found in California. In some cases images of indigenous species are included which were photographed outside the borders of California.

See Order Info for complete details on placing requests, deliverable image files, resolutions, file formats, etc.

About GSI

August 2007 - Added a Nikon 200-400mm F4 AF-S VR to the kit.

September 2006 - Completed code for By Species Stock List

June 2006 - With the addition of a Nikon D200 and Nexus Underwater Housing our transition to a pure digital capture workflow has been completed. Likely my last roll of 35mm transparency film was taken underwater on June 7, 2006 photographing Sea Stars in a tidepool north of Prince Rupert British Columbia. All future material whether on land or underwater will be captured using digital cameras exclusively.

April 2006 - Completed code for A - Z Stock List auto generated from our current image database.

December 2005 - Fully indexed Searchable image database added.

November 2005 - GSI moved to a new hosting provider, due to increased visitor traffic and server limitations.

April 2005 - After much research and effort, we completed our transition to a digital capture workflow. All future land based material will be produced using top of the line digital cameras. Starting with a Nikon D2X 12.4mp camera. For more information on how we use the D2X see our Digital Workflow notes.

January 2005 - In January 2005 we started what proved to be a three month project to completely revamp and upgrade our site. Over three thousand transparencies were re-scannned using the latest in 35mm scanning technology. We instituted a new numbering system to better organize our digital library and replaced all online thumbnail images with larger re-samples of the new scans. Every image on GSI can now be clicked on to open an enlarged display of the selected image. Subject Category pages were expanded with additional material and many new category pages were added. GSI now contains over three thousand images, searchable online.

November 1999 - Our initial digital library was setup and GSI went online in November of 1999. About two hundred fifty images were included on the original website.

References used for location and species identification:

Afoot and Afield in San Diego County, Jerry Schad, Wilderness Press 1996
Audubon Society Deserts
, James MacMahon, Chanticleer Press 1990
The Audubon Society Familiar Marine Mammals Of North America,
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1990
The Amber Forest
, Ronald H. McPeak, Dale A. Glantz & Carole R. Shaw, Watersport Publishing 1988
Fodor's California
, Editor Daniel Mangin, Fodor's Travel Publications 1996
Guide To The Coastal Marine Fishes Of California
, Department of Fish and Game, Publication 4065
Guide To Marine Invertebrates Alaska to Baja California
, Daniel Gotshall, Sea Challengers 1994
Marine Biology An Ecological Approach, James W. Nybakken, Harper & Row 1982
Pacific Coast Inshore Fishes 3rd Edition, Daniel Gotshall, Sea Challengers 1989
Pacific Coast Pelagic Invertebrates, David Wrobel & Claudia Mills, Sea Challengers 1998
Pacific Coast Subtidal Marine Invertebrates, Daniel Gotshall & Laurence Laurent, Sea Challengers 1979
Pacific Coast Nudibranchs, David Behrens, Sea Challengers 1991
Pacific Coast Crabs and Shrimp, Gregory Jensen, Sea Challengers 1995
Probably More Than You Want To Know About The Fishes Of The Pacific Coast, Milton Love, Really Big Press 1996



| Algae | American Flag | Anemones | Antelope Valley Poppies | Balboa Park | Barracuda | Beaches | Belmont Park | Big Sur | Birds | Black Sea Bass | Blue Shark | Blue Whale |
| Boating | British Columbia | Cabezon | Ca Flag | California | Cardinal Fish | Childrens Pool | Coastal | Convention Center | Coronado Bridge | Desert | Desert Flowers |
| Desert Palms | Dolphin | Dorado | Elephant Seals | Endangered | Fin Whale | Fish | Fur Seal | Garibaldi | Gas Price | Gorgonians | Great White Shark | Harbor Seals | High Sierra |
| High Sierra Eastern | High Sierra Gardiner Basin | High Sierra Southern | Horn Shark | Hotel Del | Hydrocoral | Inland | Jellyfish | Jack Mackerel | Junipero Mission | Kelp Forest |
| Krill | La Jolla | Late Light | Lighthouses | Lobster | Loggerhead | Mako Shark | Marine Mammals | Mission Bay | Missions | Mojave Rattlesnake | Mola-Sunfish | Morro Bay |
| Momyer | Mountain | Moray | Museum of Man | Nudibranchs | Oaks | Octopus | Open Ocean | Osprey | Otters | Painted Lady Butterfly | Pelicans | People | Petco | Plankton |
| Pollution | Poppies | Rays | Redwoods | Reef Life | Rockfish | San Diego Arch | San Diego Mission | San Diego Night | San Diego Panoramic | San Diego Scenic |
| San Diego Skyline | Santa Fe Depot | San Onofre | Scuba Diving | Sea Lions | Seals | Seaport Village | Sharks | Soledad Cross | Squid | Starfish | Star of India | State Capital |
| Stock | Swell Shark | Scythe Butterfly | Tidepools | Torpedo Ray | Torrey Pines | Trolley | Vivian | Warners | Waves | Whales | White Pelican | White-Sided | Wolf Eel |
| Workflow | Yellowtail | Yosemite |


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Updated: March 17, 2008