Picture: Sunset over Lassen Peak, Lassen Volcanic National Park, California It is with a great amount of pride and honor that I’d like to announce I’ve learned from my publisher that my book, Photographing California; Volume 1- North, has been nominated as a Top-Three Finalist for the 2013 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award in the Regional [...]

Picture: McClures Beach at sunset, Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California A few spots still remain for a one-day photographic workshop called Panoramic Point Reyes, which I’ll be teaching in conjunction with the Point Reyes Field Institute, a non-profit educational and experiential partner of the NPS & Point Reyes National Seashore. –> Click here [...]

Picture: Fall colors on trees in the White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire. If you don’t like High Capacity Electrical Transmission Towers and Wires running through your scenic photos, or even just your view for that matter, I’d like to ask you to check out (and possibly help fund) a project started by friend and [...]

Picture: Trees at sunset, Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California I’d really love it if you’d leave a comment with your thoughts, personal preferences, or any feedback in general on the following: I’ve been struggling with my own Border War. I’m not talking between countries, and it’s not the TV Show on the NGS [...]

Picture: Sunset through clouds at the Merced National Wildlife Refuge, San Joaquin Valley, California Several weeks ago I had to ship my (nearly) brand new Nikon D800 camera off to the Nikon Repair facility in Los Angeles. During those couple weeks I had a couple shoots scheduled, and BorrowLenses.com became my go-to rescue resource. Not [...]

Picture: 360-degree view of downtown Seattle from the top of the Seattle Space Needle, Seattle, Washington State. Perhaps you’ve occasionally seen a 360-degree panoramic image on the Internet where you can virtually spin around in all directions. They’ve become hugely popular with hotels, restaurants, and other businesses. What you may not know is that these [...]

Picture: Panorama photo of the salt formations at sunrise in the Badwater Basin, (at 282 feet below sea level, it’s the lowest elevation in North America) Death Valley National Park, California. I was really delighted by the responses and conversations which arose out of my recent post, “The Trophy Shot; a nature and landscape photographers [...]

Picture: Striated sandstone reflected in seasonal pool of water at The Wave, Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona I’m delighted to announce that my photography as been included in a feature article in the current issue of Extraordinary Vision Magazine. Called the definitive outdoor digital photography magazine, this e-pub is a dedicated ipad [...]

Picture: Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, California This month I was fortunate to spend a week traveling through Death Valley as the guest of some friends who were leading a photo workshop. We arrived at Zabriskie Point on the first morning, which is one of Death Valley’s prime photographic postcard locations. Zabriskie Point is [...]

Picture: Sunrise light on coastal cliffs above Drakes Beach, Drakes Bay, Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be leading two photo workshops this spring at the Point Reyes National Seashore. Point Reyes is located on the California coast, not too far north of San Francisco, and is believed [...]