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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! – John Muir El Capitan, 3000 feet of vertical rock, is a sight to see. Even more amazing is that if you look closer while visiting the park you will often see rock climbers scaling the face or sleeping the night before resuming their climb on El Capitan, as was the case on my last visit this past weekend (full image for scale – see the bottom left of th

This Weeks Friday Freebie iPad Wallpaper: Two Medicine Lake, Glacier National Park Friday Freebie features an image to liven up your iPad display with images from my travels… all for free. Two Medicine Lake isn’t as well known as Swiftcurrent Lake in Glacier National Park, but it is equally beautiful. Waiting for sunrise to light up Mount Sinopah the blue hour set in and I was blown away by the serene bea

During my most recent trip to Yosemite I was struck by how many people I came across had a camera. Virtually everyone had a camera in fact. Some were enjoying themselves, some were strangely aggravated as they worked, some were rushing and many were curiously sizing up the person next to them getting the exact same photo. There was not one location I traveled to that did not have a group of photographers staked out p

This Weeks Friday Freebie iPad Wallpaper: Mesquite Sand Dunes, Death Valley Friday Freebie features an image to liven up your iPad display with images from my travels… all for free. You wouldn’t think that order and chaos would ever blend together, yet sand dunes seem to portray both. Sand dunes possess order in the patterns at a micro and macro level, while their formation is chaotic and random from the

This Weeks Friday Freebie iPad Wallpaper: Foggy Field Friday Freebie features an image to liven up your iPad display with images from my travels… all for free. I’ve always found it fascinating that nature can be so complex, yet so simple. Fog has a magical way of making this observation come to life. The rolling coastal hills of California provide a great space to explore on cold foggy mornings. Seemingly

This past week I enjoyed some time in Yosemite National Park just after the first wave of a large winter storm swept through.  Conditions on the ground were perfect for winter photography, but a bit cold for the average Californian I think. The outlook from Tunnel View is often photographed, but the view is so beautiful it is really difficult to avoid taking a photo here. Yosemite is really a magical place in the win

If you ever want to see the desert come alive just spend some time there at night. This is true in relation to wildlife activity and finding a new take on landscape subjects.  We are diurnal by nature so it is very easy to look past what unique lighting can be found at night. The desert offers so many great subjects rich textures, wildlife, expansive landscapes, unique plant life, etc. and all of it looks completely

Stormy sunsets on the coast never cease to amaze. I consider myself quite lucky to live so close to amazing coastal scenery.  As I gaze out to such dramatic scenes I can’t help but think of artists before me who defined the west coast tradition of photography. With such huge footprints to follow in I always think to the following quote: …to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a r