Category: Mountains

Mountain Light

Read The Story Buy A Print The Story Behind This Photograph: Taken at Hooker Lake in Mt. Cook / Aoraki National Park, New Zealand on April 25th, 2012 It turns out that glacial lakes are cold, really cold. Not that I noticed right away. I was wearing hip waders so I could stand thigh-deep in […]

A Godley View

[av_heading heading=’Behind the scenes of this photo’ tag=’h3′ color=’custom-color-heading’ custom_font=’#949494′ style=’blockquote classic-quote’ size=” subheading_active=” subheading_size=’15’ padding=’0′ av_uid=’av-2mvwau’][/av_heading] Taken 6,000 feet above the Godley River delta at Lake Tekapo, South Island, New Zealand on April 24th, 2012 This photo was taken during a scenic flight around Mt. Cook and the surrounding mountains. I was sitting up […]

Tranquililty

Taken at Lake Rotoiti, Nelson Lakes National Park, New Zealand on April 21st, 2012 I first visited Nelson Lakes National Park in New Zealand in 2007 under a thunderous downpour. Outside the tropics I don’t think I’ve ever seen such power in a rainstorm. Overnight the level of Lake Rotoiti rose at least 3 feet. […]

The Light Within

Taken inside the Fox Glacier, South Island, New Zealand on April 16th, 2012 Glacierology 101: A moulin is a hole carved through a glacier by meltwater. Sometimes a moulin will grow until it becomes a cave in the ice, much like a blue slot canyon. And then, abruptly, the feeder stream will change course, allowing […]

Shades of Gray

Taken at Hooker Lake in Mt. Cook / Aoraki National Park, New Zealand on April 10th, 2012 A moody, rainy day in Mt Cook National Park made me want to go on a walk. The dramatic clouds and milky glacial runoff lent themselves beautifully to black and white photography.

Wanaka Dreaming

Read The Story Buy A Print The Story Behind This Photograph: Taken at Lake Wanaka, South Island, New Zealand on April 8th, 2012 How far would you go for a tree? I flew halfway around the world for one. If this seems crazy to you please realize that this is no ordinary tree. Nay, it’s […]

Some Views Are Worth the Itch

“The mosquitoes will eat you alive.” 2011 had been an extremely snowy year in the Sierra and the massive snowpack was keeping the meadows marshy and bugs buggy a full month later than usual. As I chugged my way up the Blue Lake trail into the Eastern Sierras’ Sabrina Basin that refrain kept ringing in […]

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 […]