Galleries
Galleries
These are collections of my favorite images. Are you in a brick-and-mortar gallery studying framed prints hung on a wall? Or are you on a guided adventure in the outdoors? You decide how to think of this virtual experience.
**To see the bottom part of a portrait-orientation image in the slideshow, hold the mouse over it and let go.
Arid Southwest
The Great Basin, Mojave, Chihuahuan, and Sonoran deserts, the Colorado Plateau, and inland parts of southern California make up an immense and diverse region of open plains, deep canyons, rolling hills, mesas, rocky plateaus, and mountain ranges, large parts of which have escaped development. The landscapes are breathtaking, expansive, and evocative. Take a peek and feel transported!
Monochrome Landscapes
In the tradition of Ansel Adams, these images capture the grandeur of the wide-open country and big skies of the western U.S.
Plants and Flowers
Images ranging from close-up macro-lens shots of flower parts to fields of exuberant color.
Birds, Insects, and Wildlife
Birds, butterflies, beetles, snails, lizards, snakes, frogs, toads, salamaders, mammals, and more.
In the Mountains
Mountains are special places for light and drama. These images depict scenes in the Sierra Nevada and adjacent ranges, the White Mountains, the Warner Mountains, The Klamath Ranges, the Rocky Mountains, and ranges in the desert southwest.
Night Sky
Night-time landscapes featuring the Milky Way, the moon, or simply a starry sky. Made with long exposures and a wide-angle lens. Some are single images, others composites.
Ancient Cultural Sites
The distant ancestors of indigenous people living today in North America (the "Old Ones") left many signs and traces of their existence, especially in the arid southwest. These images of their homes, sacred spaces, art, and utilitarian objects give us some impression of how they lived in a landscape of canyons, cliffs, mesas, and often scarce water.
Edge of the Continent
Where the land meets the sea, the atmosphere and light are dynamic, the tides bring cyclical changes, and waves provide constant motion. Photography can be challenging but rewarding.
Places of Water
Bodies of water—Rivers, streams, waterfalls, lakes, ponds, and wetlands—have special meaning to humans as well as to plants and animals.
Historical West
The mad scramble to wrest mineral resources from the earth in the western states during the late 1800s and early 1900s required the construction of towns, mills, tramways, railways, headframes, roads, kilns, canals, pipelines, dams, and more. Some of that infrastructure still exists, evidence of environmental (and cultural) destruction on a grand scale but picturesque nonetheless.
The Built Environment
Many urban spaces, buildings, and other things constructed by humans are designed to be beautiful. Others—commonplace and unimaginative—are accidentally beautiful when seen certain ways.
Intentional Camera Movement
Images made by moving the camera while the shutter is open. Some are single exposures, others in-camera multiples. Impressionistic by design.
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