Salton Sea Evening

Stephanie and I spent the night at Mecca Beach on the Salton Sea over Thanksgiving weekend. I was there to photograph birds, but after the light for birds was spent, couldn't help making a starscape across the waters of the sea.

A Night on the Mesa

Standing on Hunt's Mesa late one autumn night, looking down on Monument Valley. The Milky way is bewitching out there.

The Colorado Plateau

We just returned from an epic journey across Northern Arizona and Southern Utah. We saw some amazing places and met some wonderful people! Here are some highlights. On a computer, the captions and explanations show. On a phone, not so much. Either way, enjoy!

The Great Wheel

We are just back from a grand adventure on the Colorado Plateau and I'll be showing a lot of great images from the trip here on the blog in the next several days. Until then, enjoy this time lapse I made over 8 hours the other night on Hunt's Mesa, Navajo Nation, Arizona.

The Stalwart Joshua Tree

If you see a Joshua Tree, you are in the Mojave Desert. They don't grow in any other desert. In remote places, they can grow to impressive sizes.

Desert Timelapse

We spent an evening at Saddleback Butte in the Mojave Desert. The weather was beautiful, so I took about 600 pictures and strung them together into a high-definition time lapse movie. It's a short one, though it compresses a half a day into only 30 seconds. I hope you enjoy it! (Be sure to change the resolution to 720p or 1080p if you want to see it in HD! It's at the bottom of the video in a little slide up control bar.)

Accidental Photography at Point Mugu

An observation I made very early in life: the closer you live to the beach, the less likely you are to want to visit it. Of course it's not always true for everyone, but I have noticed that visitors from inland places are always keen to visit the ocean, while I and my friends and family, growing up four miles from Los Angeles' Venice Beach, rarely bothered to go.

I think this was a mistake. The shore is bursting with poetry, drama, and beauty. It often very rewarding for photography and for the spirit as a whole. It certainly was last weekend, when my wife and I took an impromptu camping trip to Point Mugu State Park, where after a rousing thunder storm, I managed to capture some of the ocean's drama and poetry in a couple of images at sunset as the storm began to clear. It had been storming for hours and I didn't expect to get any pictures at all that day. But traveling back to our camp site after eating dinner out, I happened to have my Canon 6D and 17-40mm f/4L with me--just in case. (I'm very glad I brought it!)