Thomas Kelsey Photography

09/20/2025

Fun day at the office today. Won ‘Best in Class’. Great seeing Great Race friends Zane & Valerie and their beautiful ‘35 Buick that they drove across the USA Six Times! Thank you Cornerstone Car Show in Wildomar with 200+ cars. Drifters Car Club

09/05/2025

https://exposureoneawards.com/people-vote-award/sharkfin-mt-whitney-and-moon

Photographer of the Year Contest People's Vote Awards by Exposure One Awards is Now Open

03/12/2025

One last image from my last adventure..After a three-day winter storm, snow blankets the Eastern Sierra at sunrise as the moon sets in the Alabama Hills National Scenic Area. In the background are lone Pine Peak and Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in the lower 48. A sight to behold.

08/03/2024

𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒑𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒍 𝑨𝒅𝒂𝒎𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑷𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐𝒋𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒔 𝑲𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒆𝒚 as he leads you to five different locations where Adams captured iconic images in the heart of the Eastern Sierra. Adams took some of his most important images in the Owens Valley and was particularly fond of the Alabama Hills. He returned there many times spanning a 50-year period. Listen to stories about the Master Photographer from Kelsey, who was a student of Adams at the Ansel Adams Workshops in Yosemite National Park. (Photo of Ansel Adams courtesy of Thomas Kelsey)
Tour and Festival information at
www.LonePineFilmFestival.org

06/22/2024

Ticket sales for the Lone Pine Film Festival will go on sale July 1st at lonepinefilmfestival.org

12/01/2023

Just in time for the Holidays, this years “Images of the West” calendar celebrates Thomas Kelsey’s 50 Years of Photography and includes new landscapes from 2023. The calendar includes the Rocky Mountains, Yellowstone National Park, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Central California Coast, the Alabama Hills in Lone Pine, California & the Grand Canyon National Park..
This calendar comes ready to hang and is printed on double thick pages. The cost is $20 with PayPal and includes shipping..For information on purchasing prints, message me from here or on thomaskelsey.com . Link to purchase is in the Bio or contact me personally. 🎄

11/03/2023

‘Lone Pine Peak & Gene Autry Rock’ The beauty and starkness of the Alabama Hills photographed three weeks ago creates a contrast with the image I made a week earlier in the ‘Ozark Woods’. ©Thomas Kelsey

10/20/2023

Nice to see the Inyo Register publish a photo taken by Richard Bellomy highlighting my Ansel Adams tours and my 4x5 View Camera at the Lone Pine Film Festival 📸

10/16/2023

Fall in the Eastern Sierra last week in the June Lake Loop, framed by sunrise in the Alabama Hills🍁

08/03/2023

Get you tickets before the Ansel Adams tours sell out. Join Thomas Kelsey at the Lone Pine Film Festival and hear about the images Adams made in the Alabama Hills and why he came back for over a half century.