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: Photographer next to tracks left by mysterious moving rocks on the dried flat mud at the Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California Last fall I had my first chance to visit the Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park. While walking out on the Playa, I met a photographer I’ll simply refer to [...]

Picture: Sunset light on the Trona Pinnacles, near Ridgecrest, California Yesterday I announced through my Facebook & Twitter profiles that I’d just completed a weeks long edit of a 10 day trip I took last fall to Death Valley & the Sierra while working on my book, California; Yesterday & Today. It turned out that [...]

Picture: Mysterious moving rock on the Racetrack Playa at sunset, Death Valley National Park, California “Left Turn, Clyde.” It’s probably the only line I remember from the Clint Eastwood movie, Every Which Way But Loose. Looking at this image, I have to ask, “Do you ever feel like this rock?” I don’t mean dense or [...]

File this one under: “The universe ain’t big enough for the two of us…” Picture: Moving rock at sunrise on the Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California Twice in the last few trips I’ve taken, I’ve had my personal space invaded when all around me there was nothing but empty space. I guess that [...]

Photo: Tourist overlooking Badwater and the Panamint Mountains at sunrise, Dante’s View, Death Valley National Park, California It was a long time coming; almost eight full months. As I drove, I kept hearing that old cowboy song reverbarating over and over in my head, “Back in the Saddle Again, Yes I’m back in the Saddle [...]

Picture: Sandstone Reflection at The Wave, Coyote Buttes, Paria – Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona The current issue of Photo District News (Aug. ’09) has been sitting on my office desk for the last week, unopened and unread. That is until today, when I got an email from a different magazine editor congratulating me on having [...]

Picture: Red rocks at Kodachrome Basin State Park, Utah Today, the Kodak Company announced that it was retiring Kodachrome, its flagship slide film that it been producing for well over half a century. Take a look at any National Geographic Magazine circa the early 1990′s or earlier, and that’s all you’ll see; images shot on [...]