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Description: A slightly different take on the photo from the other day with Half Dome in Yosemite National Park at sunrise. Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA, North America Photograph Copyright Continue Reading →
Description: As luck would have it, I snagged a last minute campsite in Yosemite Valley for Wednesday. That lead to a LOT of video taping, some more VR180 footage composing and Continue Reading →
Description: Lehman Cave is likely a place you haven’t heard of. It’s also possible Great Basin National Park also isn’t on your radar. But if you have the time to drive Continue Reading →
Description: This used to be an almost weekly view for me, or at least the chance to see it (clouds willing). While I love living in California, I do miss the Continue Reading →
Description: We called him Machermo because that’s the village where he started following our group. For about four days this wonderful dog hung out with us while we took photos and Continue Reading →
Description: When the sun is shining and the clouds are poofy, there is no place like Bryce Canyon National Park for enjoying the splendor of Utah. Plus, it’s often not as Continue Reading →
Tight on the heels of the last still frame post of Fern Canyon comes the sequel: Fern Canyon the Video! It’s four minutes of relaxing views inside the canyon with Continue Reading →
Description: It’s easy to see why Fern Canyon in Redwoods National & State Parks is a favorite for so many people. Too many, actually…they had to institute a permit system and Continue Reading →
Description: I am freshly returned from a trip to the Redwoods of California and what an enjoyable great trip it was. Because you can’t fly a drone from a National Park Continue Reading →
Description: A lot of the One-horned Rhinos we spotted in Nepal’s Chitwan National Park have decent but ‘realistic’ horns. What do I mean? I mean this example below is not normal. Continue Reading →
Description: There is so much to visit in Yosemite and yes, one day, I’ll go backcountry camping as I used to in Washington. But until then, I am more than delighted Continue Reading →
Description: Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve is by far one of my favorite parks. It’s so massive and mostly untouched because the vast majority of visitors come in on a Continue Reading →
Description: Sunlight in Glacier Bay National Park. Location: Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, North America Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. Image Available For Commercial Licensing (email) Learn photography and explore Continue Reading →
Description: It’s so fuzzy! But don’t get too close to cholla cactus, they are vicious. Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA, North America Camera: Canon 7D Mark Photograph Copyright Peter West Continue Reading →
Description: Fall in Yosemite is a great time of year but always chancy. You never know if the snows will show up of if the valley will be covered in fog. Continue Reading →
Description: Check it out: clouds Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA, North America Camera: Canon 7D Mark II + 28-300mm L Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. Image Available For Commercial Licensing (email) Continue Reading →
Description: While the ‘standard’ view of the beautiful cliffs from Tunnel View is what most people associate with Yosemite Valley, I rather enjoy the view from the road to Tioga Pass Continue Reading →
Description: Not all the views in Yosemite are large vistas of towering cliffs. It’s the little things, the details, that make it all so very interesting. Location: Yosemite National Park, California, Continue Reading →
Description: If you take the road to Tioga Pass in Yosemite National Park from the bottom of the valley, stop right after tunnel and look back for your last view of Continue Reading →
Description: Just north of Great Basin National Park in Nevada is a wilderness area that comes alive with patterns when the sun sinks low. Location: Great Basin National Park, Nevada, Continue Reading →
Description: Bristlecone Pines in Great Basin National Park are thousands of years old and their forest doesn’t resemble what we think of as a ‘traditional’ forest. They are sparse trees and Continue Reading →
Description: It was a chilly morning but the presence of low clouds will enhance any mountain photo. Location: Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, California, USA, North America Camera: Canon R5 + 24-105mm Continue Reading →
Description: One of the joys of visiting US National Parks is the chance to see larger-than-us animals. In the case, moose munching at the river in Rocky Mountain National Park. Location: Continue Reading →
Description: …for photogreaphy. I have to admit, hiking and climbing in the clouds might not be as nice, but for photos of the mountains from the lakeshore, give me clouds and Continue Reading →
Description: When you visit Grand Teton National Park it’s almost imperative to get up super early to see the sunrise colors blanket the snowy mountains. Location: Olympia, Washington, USA, North America Camera: Canon Continue Reading →
Description: Who doesn’t love a plump, little marmot? Location: Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA, North America Camera: Canon R5 + 100-500mm L lens Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. Image Available For Continue Reading →
Description: The weather has improved after a solid rainstorm in the night in Grand Teton National Park. So much so that we had a classic sunset. But, as you may know Continue Reading →
Description: I got lucky and scored the last spot on a tour of the Grand Palace of Lehman Cave in Great Basin National Park. And boy, was it worth it. The Continue Reading →
Description: No, this isn’t a political post. It’s the path across the salt flats in Death Valley National Park. Location: Death Valley National Park, California, USA, North America Camera: Canon 7D & 28-300mm Continue Reading →
Description: If you’re wracking your mind thinking, “Where in the US Springbrook National Park?“, take a breath. It’s in Australia where their National Parks are as numerous as our state parks, Continue Reading →
Description: Sunsets at the Grand Canyon bring the rocks to life in a way you don’t get at midday. Location: Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, USA, North America Camera: Canon 7D & Continue Reading →
Description: I love bears. From a distance. And what safer place to be than on the water, but within telephoto range of this mama and her cubs along the shore of Continue Reading →
Description: It’s a good time of year right now to visit Death Valley National Park, before the temperatures likely set new high records this summer. The colors and patterns all around Continue Reading →
Description: A road leads to the summit crater of Haleakala, the major peak of the island of Maui, and also a National Park. Across the channel you can see Mauna Kea Continue Reading →
Description: So far this week has been all wet, so let’s dry off in a high and dry location: Bryce Canyon National Park The hoodoos you see here have been sculpted Continue Reading →