Enchanted Forest
Taken in Yosemite Valley on May 18th, 2012 I love fresh maple leaves in the Spring. They have a vibrancy of color that has always appealed to me. And when these young leaves are backlit, they glow with their own magic light. This shot was two years in the making. In 2010 I snapped a […]
Day After Day
The Sierra high country is timeless. These granite mountains, these meadows, and even this tree sentinel have been here longer than I’ve been alive and will be here much longer after I am gone. They stand day after day, month after month, year after year. Not waiting for anything, not expecting anything. No deadlines, no […]
Monolith
Taken in Yosemite Valley on December 29th, 2011 At the very end of 2011 I found myself camped in Yosemite Valley. One morning I forced myself out of my warm sleeping bag only to see a lovely pink glow already filling the sky. The color quickly faded, but the sky remained full of wispy clouds. […]
Global Warming
Taken on Tenaya Lake in Yosemite on December 27th, 2011 It all started before Christmas when I saw a video of people ice skating on a frozen Tenaya Lake in Yosemite’s high country. Wow, that’s cool, that doesn’t happen very often, I thought. Then, about halfway through the video, the filmer unwittingly showed something that […]
Tuolumne Tundra
Taken in Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park on November 27th, 2011 Just when I thought Tioga Pass was closed for the season, a magical thing happened: some late season warm weather melted the ice from the road and highway 120 reopened. How fortunate then that I was visiting my family a mere 1.5 hours from […]
Yosemite Thunder
Taken at Olmsted Point in Yosemite National Park on September 12, 2011 I was in Yosemite to help my mom celebrate her 61st birthday by hiking to the top of Half Dome. Because of the new permit system, the date of your hike is not changeable. So we started to worry a bit when the […]
Split Rock at Sunrise
Taken at Tioga Lake, Yosemite National Park, on October 29th, 2010 I generally try to take a zen-like approach to my photography where I calmly survey the scene before me, take my time to find a composition, and then wait for the good light to hit. That was absolutely not the case on this cold […]
Oaks and Cedars, Yosemite Fall Color
On a “Boot Camp” style photography trip with some friends in the Fall of 2010, we hit location after location after location in Yosemite National Park. One of the stops we made was the iconic Valley View. After spending a few minutes getting the classic shot, I turned my attention to the gorgeous hues of […]
Lovely Light = Lovin’ Life
Taken from Columbia Rock in Yosemite National Park on May 14th, 2010 I once heard that 85% of visitors to Yosemite never get more then a quarter-mile from their vehicles. Incredible, I know, but it means that even with just a little bit of extra effort you can get to places that not that many […]
Room with a View
Read The Story Buy A Print The Story Behind This Photograph: Taken from above the Upper Yosemite Falls trail in Yosemite, on May 14th, 2010 Finding a unique viewpoint in Yosemite Valley to photograph is like finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. Nevertheless, that’s what I set out to do this evening in May. […]
In the Presence of Giants
Taken near Olmstead Point, Yosemite National Park on August 31st, 2009 Slightly less visited, but no less dramatic than Yosemite Valley, Tenaya Lake is a classic high Sierra lake: tranquil blue waters surrounded my massive granite monoliths. After a short backpacking trip to Cathedral Lakes, I was headed home along highway 120 when the smoky, […]
Cathedral Peak
Read The Story Buy A Print The Story Behind This Photograph: Taken at Upper Cathedral Lake, Yosemite National Park on August 30th, 2009 Living and working at sea level makes life tricky in the high country. Even though this was my second day of backpacking at the Cathedral Lakes, and should have been somewhat acclimated […]