Landscape
Landscape photography was my first love and it’s still foundational for me. I appreciate how a wide lens can help pull the eye into a place and oftentimes, tell a big story.
Most of my images depict Western North America, especially the Northern California coast, Salish Sea, and the inland Pacific Northwest and the Yellowstone to Yukon region.
Around mile 700 of a nearly 800 mile sports car rally, the welcoming deciduous forests of the Pacific Northwest were intoxicating.
Morning light on Drakes Beach during winter is rare. Even more rare is seeing a haul-out of Elephant Seals that are almost silent.
Hiking the high elevation passes in the Canadian Rockies can seem other-worldly, as cloud formations, the sun & rock collaborate to make magic.
The Olympic National Forest located just south of Lake Crescent in the Olympic National Park, looks tranquil and still.
This is where the Druid Peak Pack formed when wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1996.
A low gentle tide on Drakes Bay in the Pt. Reyes National Seashore encourages a raccoon to visit the intertidal zone for a brief moment in time.
Mt. Hardisty is the peak northeast of Athabasca Glacier in Jasper National Park, and on this day it was basked in high altitude sunlight.
The Immense landscape of the Canadian Rockies dwarfs humans walking over a stream of snowmelt from the quickly melting glaciers.
Spring and the Teton Range means changeable weather, dramatic cloud formations and lots of places to lose yourself.
The Athabasca River flows out of the Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park and travels north, eventually into the Arctic Ocean.
The east side of the Rockies are a special transition zone where the vast prairie grasslands meet the longest mountain range in North America.
Listening for wolves in the Mt. Washburn area of Yellowstone National Park yields no wolves but an outrageous sunrise.
Sometimes all it takes is getting out of bed and opening your eyes, which is what happened with this shot at a cabin on the Campbell River.
Looking east at first light in late November 2015, provides an unneeded reminder that California is on fire, as are many places in our beloved Western U.S.
From the vantage of Bainbridge Island, WA, an early winter storm blows through the Olympic National Park, leaving Alpenglow in its wake.
The barren talus slopes of peaks in Jasper National Park brings surprises at every turn. If you ever find yourself lost in the wild, stop & turn around.
Nearly 100 miles into a 500-mile road rally, sunrise occurs in the clear skies of the Sierra Nevada foothills...my kind of day!
On a cold winter day, a fly fisherman casts a fly into the Hoh River on the Olympic Peninsula. The fisherman and his line are frozen in time.
This image may be disorienting and may require an explanation: everything is moving - the subjects (man and train) and the photographer (me).
The Pacific Northwest does not give up the light as readily as a location closer to the equator, but when it does, it does in a spectacular form.
Travel north from the Idaho's Teton Valley during spring and be prepared for winter's last gasp, yielding a new crop of snow.
Big wall climbers make their way up the side of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. “
— Dorothea Lange