Fourth Times a Charm...

I make a lot of test prints, and I mean A LOT! Why? Let me try to explain...

Being stuck under low-hanging clouds for three days in the Eastern Sierras was bringing me down when inspiration struck...

It occurred to me while reflecting on the growth of this website over the last few months that only a very small percentage of my current visitors knows anything at all about me. Let me rectify that...

Death Valley National Park is well known for the areas that are well below sea level, but many areas of the park are way up in the mountains we well...

This is not your typical photograph of a pile of rocks...

Ansel Adams is famously quoted as saying "Bad weather makes for good photography" but I will admit to having little motivation for going out in it...

A cloudy, but bright, afternoon near Sedona, Arizona provided the opportunity to practice a very complex photography technique...

Fog has many personalities and you never know which one you're going to meet...

All evidence and research showed that the sunrise color would be over the mountains to the west. It was only off by 180 degrees...

Sometimes, the hardest part of being an artist is knowing when to say "done" ...

A 6-hour round trip gamble on the sunset paid off. This is the story behind "Badwater Sunset..."

Four years after learning of the existence of a magical landscape, I was finally able to capture its beauty...

I had not intended to start my second trip photographing the Eastern Sierras by revisiting Mt. Tom, but a series of compromises and last-second decisions forced my hand...

Fog along the James River in the time around sunrise can sometimes be so thick as to conceal everything, sometimes so thin as to be barely there at all, and, sometimes, it can even take on a pastel blue tone...

What is a landscape photographer to do in one of the most beautiful locations on earth when the weather doesn't cooperate?

"Impermanence" is an image I created one stormy evening on the beach as an allegory to the temporary impact of man on nature...

This is the story of how I got really lucky with a surprising sunset while capturing what was, at the time, the highest-resolution image I'd ever tried to create...

Exploring a park near my home on a cold winter day led to the surprising discovery of a riot of colors reflected in an ice-covered pool along the banks of a creek...

This is the story of a cold, dangerous, journey in the middle of the night to be in position to photograph at the James River on the slight chance that the sunrise would be spectacular...

"Lone Pine and Cottonwoods" was created from a "Plan B" location after having to bail on my intended vantage point. But the sunrise on Lone Pine Mountain was what I was after...

It was one year ago today that I was able to capture an image I had been planning for over three years. I had to wait for just the right kind of snowstorm, and we got just that on January 13th, 2019...

"Misty Morning" is the story of how patience and perseverance can sometimes pay off in remarkable ways...

"Always Look Behind You" is advice many advanced photographers give to those just starting out. This is the story of why that's a good idea...

This is the story of how an image, and a question, touched a family in ways I could never have predicted...

Did you hear that the Pantone Corporation named the Color of the Year for 2020 as "Classic Blue?" I like to think it was because they saw my image "Moonset Over the Eastern Sierra!"

On my most recent trip out west, I had not originally planned to revisit Mount Tom as I already had a pretty decent image of the mountain at sunrise. However, I arrived in Bishop, California a bit later than I had intended (about 9:00 PM) and didn’t have sunlight left with which to scout prospective locations for the next morning’s sunrise. So, I needed a location I knew well enough to be able to arrive before sunrise and get set up in the dark. Based on the various sunrise-quality prediction apps I use, the best bet was for a location that looked southwest-ish. Mount Tom, from near Highway 395, fit the bill.