Lower Yosemite Falls Between The Trees

Description: You might have seen this view as you drove past along the Northside Drive of Yosemite. At least a lot of cars stopped in the middle of the road Continue Reading →

Slumbering Silhouettes

Description: With Winter’s cold knocking all the leafs off the trees, there are ample opportunities to photograph their silhouettes against the stone cold rock of El Capitan. Location: Yosemite National Continue Reading →

See Things Flying Past El Capitan

Description: It’s possible you don’t know the pain of trying to get a ‘clean’ 30 second photo of El Capitan in the mid-evening. It’s not easy with Yosemite being near Continue Reading →

Big And Bold El Capitan

Description: Pulling back from yesterday’s photo of the X under the bridge over the Merced River in Yosemite, I give you the full view of El Capitan. There hasn’t been Continue Reading →

X Marks The Spot

Description: The happy serendipity of serendipitiness. While hanging out in Yosemite National Park last week, wandering aimlessly at points, I came across this set of reflections and shadows under the Continue Reading →

Sunrise Reflections On The White Rim Trail

Description: From a fun and memorable trip back in October with a couple of photographer friends to the White Rim Trail in Utah’s Canyonlands National Park. Location: Canyonlands National Park, Continue Reading →

Vernal Falls Black And White With A Low Flow

Description: I kind of felt bad that this was one of my brothers’ first view of Vernal Falls and the Mist Trail. No mist and not a lot of falling Continue Reading →

Sunlight And Clouds

Descriptions: Ever have one of those days where a snappy title just doesn’t come to mind? Location: Death Valley National Park, California, USA, North America Photograph copyright Peter West Carey. Continue Reading →

Just Getting Started

Description: There’s a nice spot in Yosemite Valley by El Capitan where you can pull off the road and sit in a meadow and, with the help of binoculars, laze Continue Reading →

Muscleman Arch In Canyonlands National Park

Description: Lately WordPress, or more accurately, Jetpack, has been telling me my post titles are dull. It gives them a low score, like the one above only rating 40 on Continue Reading →

Blazing Sunrise In Utah’s Canyon Country

Description: Utah has a thing for their Canyon Country. It’s some of the most artful land in this broad country. The red rock that makes up most of Canyonlands National Continue Reading →

Eureka Dunes Patterns

Description: Eureka Dunes, in the Northern reaches of Death Valley National Park, is a place I plan to return to in cool months and camp. There’s space, there’s sand (piled Continue Reading →

Gooseneck Panorama

Description: One of the first stops on the White Rim Trail is a little place often seen on the meandering Colorado River: a gooseneck bend. On this one just below Continue Reading →

Classic Half Dome And Clouds Rest In Black And White

Description: Half Dome in Yosemite National Park on a perfect, blue-sky day this Fall. Location: Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, California, USA, North America Photograph copyright Peter West Carey. All Continue Reading →

Evening Light In Yosemite Valley

Description: Fall light coming through Yosemite Valley at sunset. A bit harsh from the clouds but any day with a sunset in Yosemite is a great day. Location: Yosemite National Continue Reading →

Impatient Long Exposure Mess-up

Description: I’m not sure why I like this mess-up. I was taking a vertical photo, or maybe it was a horizontal, and wanted to move the camera to the other Continue Reading →

Filling In The Cracks

Description: Now we get to the part of the White Rim Trail trip where the sun is up! This white cap stone is seen in the foreground but look at Continue Reading →

Evening In Canyonlands National Park

Description: Sitting on a bench down from the main Island In The Sky area of Canyonlands National Park is the white sandstone that gives the White Rim Trail its name. Continue Reading →