Rick Bernagozzi Productions

"Eins, Zwei, Drei, Vier...Roll out the barrel, it's OktoberFest time...in South Lake Tahoe's Camp Richardson...If you were here in either 2016 or 2018, check out this video because you may see yourself...this video includes footage from both years...Thanks to a band called "West Coast Prost" from whom I borrowed their version of "Beer Barrel Polka"

Three days and a crew of 7, this episode of Tahoe LumberJacks covers the thinning of the forest around the Tahoe Senior Plaza in late September 2023...Since this was happening right outside my place I decided to grab some shots...special thanks to Jakob "Kwavo" Koiva for the use of some great treetop POV shots from his GoPro AND to Red Rider for the use of their song "Lunatic Fringe"...and thanks to the pinecones for allowing me to take some batting practice!

The Las Vegas Lockdown 2020 series continues. I have a handful of videos to finish up the series and this is the first of the last 3 or 4 to go. The date is May 28, 2020 (Day #70 of the shutdown), I have only 3 days to go until I leave for Lake Tahoe. The Las Vegas strip looks surreal with almost no human activity other than a few scattered road crews. But that is about to change. Only 24 hrs later the "Summer of Love" will commence, complete with "mostly peaceful protests". I went there 2 more times and to be fair, the protests I witnessed actually WERE pretty non-violent compared to other cities. to be continued....

When you've got an army of evergreen trees like the Lake Tahoe basin has, you've also got a need for trimming and even removal of some of the "soldiers" (think of it as an "honorary discharge"). In 2014, a pair of 'Lumberjacks' were brought in to perform a sort of surgery by removing a few trees among many other trees and residences. I grabbed my now-antiquated camera and shot some clips in 720p and then forgot about them...I recently found these clips and threw together a 2-minute video which also serves as a lesson in physics and gravity...Thanks to the Mony Python troupe for their number "I'm a Lumberjack and I'm O.K." (from the movie "And Now for Something Completely Different") used over the ending

The 15th Annual Gunbarrel 25 at Heavenly resort in Lake Tahoe.... A record number of 200 were on the face at 10am to compete in 2 main themes: fastest to finish 25 laps and most laps completed in 6 hours. If you were in this event, it's almost a guarantee that you'll see yourself in this video (though you might have to watch a few times to see)...while filming, I rode the chair with Cam Steinmetz (Bib #99) a 13-year old who won the Ironboy with 47 laps!

The snow is piling up as I drive through a storm along Hwy 50 from the "Y" traversing the town of South Lake Tahoe...it is early evening in this 2nd part of the series which takes us as far as the Marcus Ashley Art Gallery and it's collection of spinning mobiles looking surreal in the fresh snow and a full moon beginning to peek through the clouds

The first in a series of "Lake Tahoe Winter" videos, take a ride along Emerald Bay Road to Camp Richardson during a snowstorm in late afternoon. The snow is really piling up displaying a winter wonderland...

Let's take a holiday season train ride on the Los Angeles MetroRail Gold Line from the Del Mar station in Pasadena to Union Station in Downtown L.A....Then we'll go on a little walking tour of some of the sights at Christmas time including Union Station, Olvera Street, Phillippe's (for a french-dip sandwich), City Hall, Grand Park, The Mark Taper Forum, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Walt Disney Concert Hall (home to the L.A. Philharmonic). At the very end, I include a flashback clip of the ice skating rink at the L.A. Live entertainment complex near Staples Center in 2013...

James "Jimmy" Graff was well-known to regulars at San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics home games. For decades he was slinging "tube steaks" (hot dogs) at both stadiums in the Bay area...but on Christmas Day 2019 he was found dead in his apartment. I happened to shoot several short video clips of him over the course of games I went to at AT&T Park (now known as Oracle Park). When I recently heard of his passing I decided to create a short little tribute to this character who was a fixture for so long...Goodbye Jimmy, you ARE missed! This is a "revised" version of an earlier video-I found an additional shot that I just had to include

Oracle Park, home to the San Francisco Giants, is a beautiful stadium that can be accessed in a variety of ways and I've experienced several of them with a good friend who has season tickets behind home plate...I'll be sharing some of these in a new video series I call "Going to the Ballpark-San Francisco-style"...These will include land and sea routes and also involve bicycles, skateboards and water taxis...In Part 1, we saw a fast-motion drive into the city. Here, in Part 2, Mark and I ride a bike and skateboard to the stadium's bike valet...

Oracle Park, home to the San Francisco Giants, is a beautiful stadium that can be accessed in a variety of ways and I've experienced several of them with a good friend who has season tickets behind home plate...I'll be sharing some of these in a new video series I call "Going to the Ballpark-San Francisco-style"...These will include land and sea routes and also involve bicycles, skateboards and water taxis...This is part 1 and is a hyperlapse video of the drive from Marin County down over the Golden Gate Bridge, through the city to a parking lot and will lead to a bike and skateboard ride to the stadium in part 2

Weather can change quickly in the mountains and the Lake Tahoe basin shows us an example...These timelapses were shot from a condo at the top of Kingsbury grade over a few days in June 2020 when we were treated to a sudden snowfall...and a quick hyperlapse of a warm sunny bike ride a few days later...

Rockets! Rockets! Rockets! The first July 4th Fireworks show after the Las Vegas Covid Lockdowns...Starting at dusk, atop Whitney Mesa in Henderson, Nevada we get an expansive view of the valley and the airport traffic flying into McCarran airport while various firework displays light up the horizon...then, I packed up my bike, and my gear and rode to the Las Vegas strip to watch the multi-Casino displays go off, simultaneously, at 11 pm

This is #25 in a series of short, Mini-Clips shot during the initial shutdown of the Las Vegas strip starting on March 18, 2020...I rode my bike up there many times to record this for historical posterity and I plan on adding more of these, progressing consecutively in the order they were shot. The date is May 25, 2020, day #67 (of "2 weeks to flatten the curve") and it's part 3 of "Memorial Holiday on Wheels"...This day was a joy to be riding around the strip on any device with wheels...But changes are a-coming...The Casinos are set to reopen on June 4th and next time I come up here will be day 1 of the BLM demonstrations

This is #24 in a series of short, Mini-Clips shot during the initial shutdown of the Las Vegas strip starting on March 18, 2020...I rode my bike up there many times to record this for historical posterity and I plan on adding more of these, progressing consecutively in the order they were shot. The date is May 25, 2020, day #67 (of "2 weeks to flatten the curve") and it's part 2 of "Memorial Holiday on Wheels"...This day was a joy to be riding around the strip on any device with wheels

This is #23 in a series of short, Mini-Clips shot during the initial shutdown of the Las Vegas strip starting on March 18, 2020...I rode my bike up there many times to record this for historical posterity and I plan on adding more of these, progressing consecutively in the order they were shot. The date is May 25, 2020, day #67 (of "2 weeks to flatten the curve") and it's part 1 of "Memorial Holiday on Wheels"...This day was a joy to be riding around the strip on any device with wheels

This is #22 in a series of short, Mini-Clips shot during the initial shutdown of the Las Vegas strip starting on March 18, 2020...I rode my bike up there many times to record this for historical posterity and I plan on adding more of these, progressing consecutively in the order they were shot. The date is May 22, 2020, day #64 (of "2 weeks to flatten the curve") and in this short clip we check out the "High Roller" ferris wheel which has ceased turning

This is #21 in a series of short, Mini-Clips shot during the initial shutdown of the Las Vegas strip starting on March 18, 2020...I rode my bike up there many times to record this for historical posterity and I plan on adding more of these, progressing consecutively in the order they were shot. The date is May 22, 2020, day #64 (of "2 weeks to flatten the curve") and in this short clip we cruise along with the many bike riders & skateboarders taking advantage of the fairly open road and sidewalks

This is #20 in a series of short, Mini-Clips shot during the initial shutdown of the Las Vegas strip starting on March 18, 2020...I rode my bike up there many times to record this for historical posterity and I plan on adding more of these, progressing consecutively in the order they were shot. The date is May 19, 2020, night #61 (of "2 weeks to flatten the curve") and in this short clip we spend a minute near the New York New York Casino, Paris Casino and Caesar's Palace in early evening...the lights are on but the casinos are closed, the sidewalks are mostly empty and there's almost as many bikes as cars on the strip

This is the #17 in a series of short, Mini-Clips shot during the initial shutdown of the Las Vegas strip starting on March 18, 2020...I rode my bike up there many times to record this for historical posterity and I plan on adding more of these, progressing consecutively in the order they were shot. This was shot on May 17th 2020, marking the end of the second month (of "2 weeks to slow the spread"), and the Sphinx at the Luxor is pretty quiet

This is #18 in a series of short, Mini-Clips shot during the initial shutdown of the Las Vegas strip starting on March 18, 2020...I rode my bike up there many times to record this for historical posterity and I plan on adding more of these, progressing consecutively in the order they were shot. The date is May 19, 2020, Day #61 (of "2 weeks to flatten the curve") and in this short clip we spend a minute near the New York New York Casino at magic hour and Lady Liberty is bathed in twilight sun

This is #18 in a series of short, Mini-Clips shot during the initial shutdown of the Las Vegas strip starting on March 18, 2020...I rode my bike up there many times to record this for historical posterity and I plan on adding more of these, progressing consecutively in the order they were shot. The date is May 19, 2020, Day #61 (of "2 weeks to flatten the curve") and we find some photographers taking advantage of the deserted strip, including Lord Vader!

This is the #16 in a series of short, Mini-Clips shot during the initial shutdown of the Las Vegas strip starting on March 18, 2020...I rode my bike up there many times to record this for historical posterity and I plan on adding more of these, progressing consecutively in the order they were shot. This was shot on May 17th 2020, marking the end of the second month (of "2 weeks to slow the spread"), and gives a look at the shuttered Mandalay Bay and what it looks like when it's empty and regular maintenance has been suspended. Next up: The Luxor...

This is the 15th in a series of short, Mini-Clips shot during the initial shutdown of the Las Vegas strip starting on March 18, 2020...I rode my bike up there many times to record this for historical posterity and I plan on adding more of these, progressing consecutively in the order they were shot. This is from late afternoon/early evening on May 15th and we are now on Day #57 (of "2 weeks to flatten the curve"), the casinos and virtually all of the strip are still closed...BUT...they are still doing drive-thru weddings at the Little White Chapel just north of the Strip and I happened upon a wedding in progress...and notice people's faces showing!

This is the 14th in a series of short, Mini-Clips shot during the initial shutdown of the Las Vegas strip starting on March 18, 2020...I rode my bike up there many times to record this for historical posterity and I plan on adding more of these, progressing consecutively in the order they were shot. This is from the night of May 10th 2020 (Night #52 for those keeping score) and I encountered a fan tribute to Mr. Roy Horn (of Siegfried & Roy fame) who had just died 2 days earlier...R.I.P. Roy Horn