Wagons, Ho!
Visited the Railroad Museum in Laws, CA on Saturday. Lots of memorabilia from the old movie-westerns, and lots of fun! Details galore. As I walked around the site, I imagined life during those times....
View ArticleDawn over Death Valley
We began our instructional tour on Sunday night, and this was our first morning photo session. Zabriskie Point, classic view, iconic rock and mud formations, but you never know what the light will...
View ArticleThe Racetrack in Death Valley
I’ll bet you were expecting one of those infamous rocks that moves across the playa. Well, we found those, too, although it’s increasingly difficult to pick out the real ones versus the ones people...
View ArticleTHANK YOU for 2012!!
Why is is that when it comes to the holidays, so many pictures are about snow?? Here in northern California, there’s never been a ‘white christmas’ that I know of. We still have Fall color hanging on...
View ArticleCelebrating The Storm
As the rain pounds the flat roof over my office, and the winds whip up the leaves through the trees outside, I am sitting snug and warm in front of my computer editing images – a perfect thing for a...
View ArticleDune Detail, Namibia
Here’s another image from the massive dunes that line the road in Sossusvlei National Park, Namibia. The dunes were very high, and some great compositions were above the desert floor, but here, I...
View ArticleSurprise Light in Zion Nat’l Park
When I hear the words ‘storm’s a-brewin’ I get excited, because that means the potential for dramatic light and CLOUDS! I love love love clouds. They make those blank shapes of sky work within your...
View ArticleYosemite: Mirrorless and Moonlight
Cabin fever got the better of me this past weekend, and I took off for a very quick trip up into the Merced River canyon and Yosemite. I was in search of redbud, having heard they were popping into...
View ArticleWinter Beauty in Tahoe
This past weekend we drove back from DRY Death Valley, up 395 on the eastern side of the Sierra. We were on our way to visit a friend at his cabin on highway 50, but things changed, so we continued...
View ArticleWintry Wonderland in Yosemite
When it comes to outdoor photography, timing is everything. So it was great to finally get it ‘right’ for winter snow in Yosemite! I have attempted winter scenes there for a few years, but either we...
View ArticleWinter Transfigures the Land
When I went to Yosemite, it was to find snow, to be productive in my photography, to create fresh images, and I did all those things. But to be honest, it was also a reason for me to get out into...
View ArticleWhen Seasons Meet
Autumn leaves on some trees just seem to hang on forever. Whereas aspens and birches drop at a slight wind, oaks hang on, some all the way through winter, in fact, only to be pushed off when spring...
View ArticleDeath Valley Spring
By many accounts this is a super bloom year in Death Valley. And in my opinion, it was super no matter whether the media/park service called it that or not! It was spectacular to witness the landscape...
View ArticleStories in Death Valley
Did you know that billions of seeds lie in wait (for years) in the desert for enough rain to germinate and grow? And of those billions, not all will get that chance. Wind, bird/animal droppings all...
View ArticleSometimes, just a pretty picture
So often we hope for dramatic weather and skies, but sometimes, it’s simply a really nice day, and the scenery is so lovely, that it’s worth a photograph just for that. After all, the point of making...
View ArticleStorm Light in Utah’s Desert Lands
Mid-April provided some very interesting light and clouds in central Utah this year. I had been to speak at the Moab Photography Symposium, and had to drive to Salt Lake to leave my car and fly to...
View ArticleClassic Views in Canyonlands
I had gone to the overlook with the hopes of capturing a great sunset over the Goosenecks area, but storms had been building up all afternoon and the sky was very cloudy. Still, I thought that I might...
View ArticleAmidst Ups and Downs, two photographs
Hi, all! I just returned from a quick road trip to the Northwest, to teach at Pacific Northwest Arts School, and took a week to drive back. The trip was fraught with ‘photo-misses’. I arrived at Mt....
View ArticleTaking a Low Point of View
So here I was, driving through the Willamette valley in September, on my eventual way home, looking for an apple stand, when I saw this huge dust cloud from a distance. I could see the tractor at one...
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Celebrating the Overlooked Photos
Bare trees dapple the golden light falling on Bridalveil Creek in Yosemite Valley. The past several months I’ve been finalizing text and selecting images to illustrate my upcoming book Expressive...
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