I spent nearly two weeks traveling through Nevada and California. Coming home to my little desert town of Torrey always feels wonderful, no matter where I’ve been, and this time is no exception. The large cottonwoods along Main Street greeted me with a warm golden glow. The tourists are mostly gone and despite the sunny [...]
While working on my upcoming eBook: Intimate Portraits of the Colorado Plateau, I came across this blog post by photographer Quang-Tuan Luong whose National Parks exhibit was criticized by Boston Globe critic Mark Feeney who took issue with the images lacking in human presence. As my own work often seeks to exclude the effects of [...]
It’s hard to imagine many of my readers are not already familiar with Canadian photographer Darwin Wiggett. His work had been an inspiration to me for almost as long as I’ve been a photographer myself. Darwin’s name is almost synonymous with spectacular imagery of the Canadian Rockies, where he lives, works, and teaches. Still, before [...]
This book is probably not what you expect it to be. When a photographer publishes a book about a road leading to seven National Parks, one might expect a tribute to the scenic beauty and natural history of the place, and indeed the book doesn’t disappoint. But, this book is about so much more than [...]
It almost seems like I’m the only nature photographer not to have co-opted Ken Burns’ National Parks series for some self promotion. There are two reasons for that: I don’t watch TV, and I don’t feel quite comfortable taking a free ride on someone else’s hard work. For those who haven’t heard me say it [...]
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