The Long View Of Death Valley
From 6300′ up on Aguereberry Point in Death Valley is a pretty great view looking South down the length of the park. Badwater Basin and more spreads far, far away.
Category: National Park
Pagoda Buckwheat
Ever take pictures of things you don’t know and then forget to look them up? Sure you do! Agree with me to make me feel better! This is the Pagoda Continue Reading →
Shifting Sands
The amount of images you can bring home from White Sands National Park changes daily with the shifting winds and sands.
Zion Rock Patterns
Not all the rock in Zion National Park is red sandstone.
Zion Morning Sun
From the campground in Zion National Park. Pretty easy to enjoy this park without having to hike a hundred miles.
Lake Manly Panorama
It’s a bummer panoramas can’t be properly appreciated on most of our screen, especially if you are reading this on a phone. But I still love taking them and working Continue Reading →
Racetrack Grandstand Mirage
If you don’t like your car too much, take a drive down to the Racetrack in Death Valley National Park. It’s a dry lakebed that sometimes has mysterious rocks roving Continue Reading →
White Ibis Giving Me A Stare-down
Here in LA we don’t have a lot of ibises so I enjoy them when travels, birding or work or vacation, take me to where they live. In this case, Continue Reading →
Through The Open Tunnel
Way out at Dry Tortugas National Park, a set of keys 70 miles from Key West, there is a fort that never saw battle. Sometimes it was a prison and Continue Reading →
Teton Peaks Above The Clouds
A break from the birds, Enjoy!
Happiness In The Sierra
This location has become one of my favorite spots to camp with just one trip. It’s not so easy to get to (11,000′ pass) and requires a permit that has Continue Reading →
Mountain Pride
If you looked at yesterday’s panorama of Columbine Lake, it may have looked like a desolate landscape, barren of all life except the backpackers. At nearly 11,000′, not a lot Continue Reading →
Columbine Lake and Sawtooth Peak
One of the best four day hikes I’ve ever done, last summer saw me and two friends hike a 27 mile (or so, we all had different stats) loop in Continue Reading →
Zion Hillside
To be honest, I’m only 86% sure this is actually in Zion National Park. There is a little section of the road that actually pops out of he park before Continue Reading →
Favorite Photos From 2025
It’s time to scroll through the highlights from 2025 and pick favorites. I gave up on the Top 10 list a while ago because life’s short, more photos. This year Continue Reading →
Just Before Angels Landing
Truth be known, I didn’t finish the climb up to Angels Landing, the hill on the right side of this panorama from Zion National Park. It felt too sketchy to Continue Reading →
Exploring Zion’s Empty Western Road
As mentioned in yesterday’s post, the road along the west side of Zion National Park doesn’t get nearly the same traffic as the valley. Some same it is just 10% Continue Reading →
Last Light On Zion National Park’s Less Visited Highlands
One day of stellar light in Zion fills my soul for a week. I was lucky enough to spend two nights up there recently and while the weather was a Continue Reading →
Capitol Reef National Park Aerial
I love exploring the Southwest from a plane. The colors and patterns offer a way different view than from on land. It took me a while to realize exactly where Continue Reading →
Emerging From The Winds
Patagonia sure doesn’t mess around with the wind. The clouds over the mountains were in constant motion give different glimpses of their peaks minute by minute.
Andean Condor Soaring
We are fresh back from a trip to Patagonia that has been on my mind for decades. Back then I wasn’t as into birding as I am these days, but Continue Reading →
Fall Foliage In The Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains
I’m just back from two days attempting to climb Mount Whitney, the tallest peak in the lower 48 United States. It’s an odd distinction, for sure, but it’s also a Continue Reading →
Small Start Amongst Giants
A small fern nestles against the base of a towering tree.
Into The Sequoia Forest
It’s hard to find a Giant Sequoia without some kind of burn scar. Something we think of as a negative is just a way of life for a tree that Continue Reading →
The Most Beautiful Of Days in White Sands National Park
It’s that time of year/season/computer getting full when I go through an clean out folders. You might see more of this past year’s trips for the next couple of weeks. Continue Reading →
Same Arch, Different Angle
Same as yesterday’s Gateway Arch photo, but from a few minutes later and lower.
Gloom And The Gateway Arch
This is part of what I love about photography: bending reality. This day at the Gateway Arch National Park in the Spring was actually a nice day. But a set Continue Reading →
Kearsarge Lakes Before The Kearsarge Pinnacles
The nest time I camp at this little set of lakes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, I’m picking a location close to this spot. Just a little bit of outflow Continue Reading →
Giant Cone, Little Cone; Which Is From A Sequoia?
Next to a fallen sugar pine tree in Sequoia National Park is this huge sugar pine cone. In the foreground is the cone for the park’s namesake, the Sequoia.
The Bright Dead Tree In The Forest
Weathering has taken a toll on this tree. High up the Sierra Nevada mounts, by a hidden lake called Pinto.