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.
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More and More Layers
Long time viewers of this blog, now in its 21st year, know I love layers. Okay, maybe not even the long time readers know this, but I do, I really Continue Reading →
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 →
Yak Caravan In Nepal
Trekking in Nepal is always made easier with yaks or dzokyos (cross breed cow/yak) carrying your gear. And someone to handle them.
Winding Through Bhutan
There aren’t many straight roads in Bhutan. It is a very mountainous country often times with room for only one point five cars on a road. Recent improvements for the Continue Reading →
A Light On The Hills
They finally have that new stretch of pavement down and the construction speed signs are gone along Highway 395 in Owens Valley. And from that stretch you can see clear Continue Reading →
Weird Shapes In The Alabama Hills
A quick note that if you decide to fly a drone in the Alabama Hills, you need to get a permit from the Bureau of Land Management in Bishop. The Continue Reading →
Upside Down Shimmer
This one is an odd one. The world flipped upside down and a strange coloring to the sun trying to burn through the clouds. Reflected in Diaz Lake out by Continue Reading →
Alabama Hills And The Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains
It turns out you need a permit to fly a drone in the Alabama Hills so I went through the process last year. The permit is only good for a Continue Reading →
Teton Peaks Above The Clouds
A break from the birds, Enjoy!
Surreal LAX And Downtown Los Angeles
I was out on a pelagic birding trip today, where you hop on a boat and look for birds that don’t usually come ashore, when I took this surreal, or Continue Reading →
The Line Down The Glacier
When two parts of a glacier come together from different directions, their sides that were turned dark from rubbing rocks off the sides of mountains make a single track. This Continue Reading →
Cold And Blue And Gray
Cruising through Chile’s fjords and looking up at the myriad glaciers and cliffs.
Super Moody
It’s the kind of light photographers drool over. Sun breaking through a mixed layer of clouds with a passing storm in the background. This scene is just outside of Manzanar Continue Reading →
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 →
Pia Glacier Panorama
Glaciers like Pia Glacier fascinate me. Located down in Patagonia with very few visitors each year, the glacier continues to calve off chunks of ice, filling and emptying the bay Continue Reading →
Stone Patterns, Patagonia
Amongst the ‘freshly’ scrapped rocks as a glacier in Chile’s Patagonia region, the patters of lichen mix with the rock below.
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 →
The Drama Above And Below
Flying West toward Los Angeles, I was lucky enough to catch the light before a storm came in this past Fall. I think this might have been the storm that 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.
All The Blues In Chile
Exploring fjords and glaciers in Chile was (possibly) a once in a lifetime trip for my wife and I. Patagonia has a number of ecosystems and the icy blue in Continue Reading →