I have always loved capturing the architecture of the Southwest. This image was made at the famous "La Quinta Hotel" near Palm Springs, CA. It was done with my Canon Mark2 with a 24mm Shift/Tilt lens,…
My wife Margaret and I keep a small bucket list of ongoing Sierra trip ideas. Some are new, but many are returns to memorable places from years ago. Last week we enjoyed a nine-day journey in Ki…
I had a chance to reminisce during last weekend's Labor Day Show here in Mammoth. It has been forty years since Galen Rowell picked out my very first Nikon camera at a camera swap in Berkeley. This wa…
This is another image made long in New Mexico. I was recovering from the first of my brain tumor treatments that October of 2004. Margaret and I had our children with close friends for a long weekend,…
I had the first thoughts about "pre-visualizing" this image in the right-side of my brain, while scouting for a workshop last September. I checked my trusty star-chart and my compass, and became aware…
That day, long ago in the summer of 2001, promised to be unbearably hot. Dylan and I quietly entered Pueblo Bonito at dawn. No other visitors that morning. Who had been here over one thousand years ag…
We looked back through old images this past winter, and Margaret and I were both impresses by this old 4x5 capture of an Agave in clearing fog, from La Jolla, CA. As I have mentioned be…
We have been on a family trip to central Oregon, and have
had the pleasure of traveling with our daughter, Sabrina this year. Our plan
was to start near where we stopped last year and continue up th…
This is an older image from back in 1996. In those days I used a "viewing card," an old Ansel Adams technique. When setting up a 4x5 camera, one has to know exactly the composition. The camera ca…
