Thanks to methodical planning, good luck with the weather, and helpful guides my photography group was able to photograph the ancient town of Cordes-sur-Ciel from across the valley at sunset.…
Yesterday I went exploring with fellow-photographer QT Luong, the creator of Our National Monuments. Of course, we brought our cameras, and spent the afternoon through sunset along the beautiful San…
Riding in a bus is not always exalted or exalting, but it does leave one time for conversation and for looking out the window. In my case, on my recent…
There's something about the wild and stark landscapes of Iceland that compel me towards monochrome. Oh, there's plenty of color in Iceland, depending on the time and place (as examples…
It is bittersweet to say farewell to a destination as lovely and memorable as Iceland. But it is good to be home, and I have many images from our time…
An unusual feature of the famous and spectacular Gullfoss waterfall is that the water flow makes an almost immediate 90 degree turn to the left at the bottom of the…
Godafoss---"Waterfall of the Gods"---is one of the largest and most visited waterfalls in Iceland. It is shown here at sunset (maybe midnight at this time of year!) from above. The…
Happy to recently process this Study in Blue, photographed a while ago at Crater Lake, Oregon. This early morning image gives me a feeling of peace and serenity.
These are newly-processed images from travels in the inter-mountain American West in early 2020 just before the pandemic struck and we began sheltering in place. As vaccinations proceed apace, I…
In some ways, layers define the landscape at large. When a landscape consists of layers stretching out to the distant horizon, the details become abstracted, and we can imagine ourselves…
The other day I went for a long walk in nearby Tilden Park, which lies about a mile from my home, on the farther side of the initial crest of…
In mid-February of this year, I photographed at the massive Tower Arch in the back country of Arches National Park, in Utah. Time was short because the winter day was…
In his cryptic and chaotic first novel V, Thomas Pynchon describes the work of a painter named Slab: Slab and Esther, uncomfortable with each other, stood in front of an…
Sometimes an image is simply about a point, or a line. In this high-key image across the Bay on an overcast day, I created an image of a train bridge…
It's easily possible to get lost in the folds of the earth viewed from Zabriskie Point: visually with a camera, and practically as well if one wanders in the valleys.…
Here are a few images from my recent trip to Canyonlands National Park. Canyonlands is divided in three sections by the conjunction of the Green and Colorado Rivers. The central…
There are few more beautiful landscapes on this good earth than Death Valley. Here are a few images from my recent visit, with the photographs emphasizing patterns and folds in…
Thinking about the upcoming photography conference in Yosemite led me to browse through some of my archives of work of Yosemite in winter's past. Digital means never having to say…