Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images

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 [...]

Photos: Storm over Half Dome from Sentinel Rock, Yosemite National Park, California
Yesterday, I made a post critical of the mediocre quality of photos used by Travel & Leisure in their online feature, Best US National Park Views. I said a couple were decent at best, a couple were “OK”, and the rest were, well… just [...]

Picture: Alpenglow on clouds in evening above Half Dome and Tenaya Canyon from Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, California.

A few weeks ago, I was contacted by an editorial intern at Travel & Leisure (Online) requesting permission to use an image of mine of Yosemite National Park for a feature they were planning on running called, [...]

Picture: Photographers lined up at sunset to photograph Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California

Every so often when I see other photographers in the field, I’ll ask, “are you a Pro?” I do this mainly because I pay attention to photography credit lines, and I wonder if they are someone whose name I might recognize. In [...]

Picture: Overlooking the rugged hills of the Santa Ynez Mountains, near Santa Barbara, California

Now that I’ve uploaded images for my book project, I’m getting the chance to go back through some of the new material I created over this last year. One location that impressed me more than many was this view I came across [...]