Category: New Photos

Autumn Narrows

Taken in The Narrows, Zion National Park on November 16th, 2011 Zion National Park in Southern Utah is pretty darn beautiful. The towering rock walls remind me of a red Yosemite. The first time I visited the park in January 2010, ice and snow blanketed the ground and many of the hikes were inaccessible or […]

Dune Avalanche

Taken in the Mesquite Sand Dunes in Death Valley on November 10th, 2011 Walking along the sharp ridge line of a dune in the Mesquite Sand dunes in the desert of Death Valley I noticed these fascinating chutes formed by small avalanches of sand. I loved the textures and shapes.

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 […]

Picture Peak

Taken at Moonlight Lake in the Sabrina Basin, Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains, on August 22nd 2011 “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 […]

Shooting Stars by Moonlight

Taken at Moonlight Lake in the Sabrina Basin, Eastern Sierra, California on August 22nd, 2011 Forget coffee, forget Redbull. Nothing gets me zipping along first thing in the morning like some high Sierra backpacking. On my last morning of a trip to the wondrous Sabrina Basin near Bishop, California I rolled out of my tent […]

Racing Stripes

Taken in Zebra Canyon near the town of Escalante, Utah, on May 31st, 2011 The slot canyons of southern Utah come in a wide variety of shapes, colors, and textures. It is amazing how each canyon can be so different from the next, despite being separated by fairly small distances. While on a camping trip […]

Hoodoo Maze

Taken at Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon National Park on May 31st, 2011 Bryce Canyon is a beautiful and surreal place: 18 miles of orange hoodoo sentinels standing watch over the plateau below. And perhaps nowhere provides a better view of the park’s fascinating geology than Inspiration Point, where you can look out into the Bryce […]

Coyote Falls, Coyote Gulch

Read The Story Buy A Print The Story Behind This Photograph: Taken in Coyote Gulch, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument on May 28th, 2011 Call me impulsive, but sometimes I plan trips based only on a single photo of a place. The first time I did this I visited L’ile de la Reunion in the middle […]

Temple of the Sun

Taken in Cathedral Valley, Capitol Reef National Park on May 27th, 2011 An absolute undiscovered gem of a park, Captiol Reef in central Utah houses some of the most breathtaking and unique scenery of the Waterpocket Fold, a massive wrinkle in the Earth’s surface. Towering cathedrals, slot canyons, never-ending vistas, volcanic remnants: this park has […]

Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Taken at Three Mile Beach in Wilder Ranch State Park on May 15th, 2011 This bridge is possibly my favorite feature along the Santa Cruz coast. At high tide the crashing waves flow right under the bridge. And in rough seas the pounding of the ocean can actually be felt through the bridge, providing a […]

Field of Dreams

Taken in the Carrizo Plain National Monument on April 9th, 2011 I love Spring for a number of reasons, not least of which is the annual wildflower hunt. As blooms spread throughout California photographers share tips, locations, and gas as they race around the state trying to find the best displays. The Carrizo Plain is […]

Fury

Taken at Panther Beach near Santa Cruz on March 25th, 2011 Nature photographers can tread a fine line between dangerous and dramatic. On the day I took this shot I originally had planned to teach a photography workshop. But the other instructor and I decided to reschedule because of the risk of rain, hail, and […]