Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images

Picture: Panorama overlooking the Emigrant Wilderness at sunset near Sonora Pass, Tuolumne County, California

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This is another of the images taken from my recent trip to the Sonora Pass region of the Sierra Nevada. My buddy who was with me is a big [...]

Picture: Overlooking the Sierra Nevada near Sonora Pass, Tuolumne County, California

This last weekend, my friend Michael Routh, a.k.a. the SmokeChaser and I made a trip up to the Sonora Pass region of the Sierra. This was the first of several trips to the region for my new book project. In scouting the area, not only [...]

Picture: Photographer at work in the High Sierra, near Yosemite, California

Today I turned in the edited manuscript and new chapter introductions for my current… no, wait… make that previous book project.
I’m both proud and honored to announce that I have a brand new book project I’m now working on. This will be my seventh book. [...]

Picture: Sunrise light on Mount Tom and the Eastern Sierra over cattle grazing in pasture in the Round Valley, near Bishop, California

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This is another image that marks one of my first few attempts at a panoramic composition using the PhotoMerge feature in Photoshop. One [...]

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 again.” [...]

Picture: Sunset light on the peaks above Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, Yosemite National Park, California
One of my photographer friends, Guy Tal, posted on his blog, er… web journal, yesterday that he was perhaps one of the last people to ride the photographic coat tails of Ken Burns’ recent PBS documentary film series on the [...]

Picture: Sunset light on Cathedral Peak reflected in Upper Cathedral Lake, Yosemite National Park, California
Last night I was up until nearly 3:00am working. One of the long overdue items on my “to do” list was to upgrade my wordpress installation of this weblog. Lately when I’ve been talking about long overdue, it’s been [...]

From Syl Arena: Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 81–85 Even if you can only manage to read the bullet points, this is still a great post. Soak it in like a sponge. I strongly recommend taking time to read each point in it’s entirety.
From Brian Auer: Your Guide to Making Fine [...]

From Art Wolfe and Outdoor Photographer Magazine: Get into the Stock Market. In this article, famed photographer Art Wolfe shares his wisdom with aspiring outdoor & nature photographers who are starting down the path of wanting to sell their images. While he discusses many of the fragmenting and frustrating changes in the industry, he does [...]

Picture: Sunset light on the face of Half Dome, from Olmsted Point, Yosemite National Park, California.

In my last two blog posts, I reported on the mediocre quality of images used by Travel & Leisure Online for their Best Views from US National Parks feature, and the subsequent post when it was discovered that one of [...]