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  • Petrified by a Hard Place

    Petrified by a Hard Place

    Bobbysox trees on a hillside at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone, WY. FEB 2013 Awarded: Honorable Mention: Magnum Opus Show, Sacramento Fine Arts Center. JUL 2013. Honorable Mention, Sacramento County Fair 2013

  • Forest and Hot Spring in Winter

    Forest and Hot Spring in Winter

    Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone, FEB 2013

  • Reawakening

    Reawakening

    American River Canyon, Auburn, CA, FEB 2015

  • Clouds, Sun and Rain

    Clouds, Sun and Rain

    Crepuscular Rays Intersected with Rain, Highway 95 North of Beatty, NV; OCT 2015

  • Joshua Tree Forest

    Joshua Tree Forest

    Back Road to Area 51, NV; OCT 2015 Area 51, Groom Lake, lies just over this ridgetop.

  • Path to a Distant Storm

    Path to a Distant Storm

    Craters of the Moon National Park, ID; MAY 2019

  • Primera Lúz

    Primera Lúz

    First light over Yosemite, July 2014 Awarded: Chosen as a contender for publicity of the Outdoor Photographer Vistas 2014 competition.

  • North Dome at Sunrise

    North Dome at Sunrise

    The early morning sun highlights the face of North Dome as it rises over Yosemite Valley. Yosemite National Park, CA; MAY 2017

  • Sunset over Half Dome

    Sunset over Half Dome

    Yosemite National Park, CA; MAY 2017

  • Cove on Crystal Bay

    Cove on Crystal Bay

    Sand Harbour State Park, Lake Tahoe, NV - Perspective 3

  • Golden Tranquility

    Golden Tranquility

    Mono Lake, AUG 2014 Awarded: Special Recognition, Light, Space and Time Online Gallery Landscape Competition, April 2015 Traveling along the west side of the Mono Lake, on Highway 395, you pass Picnic Grounds Road. This road takes you to a parking lot which is the trailhead for the Mono Lake Trail – a trail that takes you to the Visitor Center atop the hill. As you look across the lake, you can see some Tufa. But at lakeside, you see mounds of rock that look much like tufa. These rocks that dot the shoreline are actually pumice boulders. They were set aloft by the nearby volcanoes and found a spot in the lake. Pumice is volcanic rock mixed with a lot of air. In fact, so much air that pumice will float. So these boulders probably floated around for a while until they got water logged, sank and became embedded in the mud. As summer reaches its peak, many of the grasses and wildflowers reach the peak of their color. I decided to explore the pumice fields at the Picnic Grounds Road area just to see what it may look like at sunrise. As I was exploring, I came across this patch of grass among the pumice with tufa and mountains in the background. I could see where the sun would rise. So, I set up my composition, and waited for the sunrise. I was not disappointed.

  • Solar Alchemy on New Years Day

    Solar Alchemy on New Years Day

    Sunrise at Mono Lake on New Yeras Day, JAN 2014

  • Saguaro Cacti

    Saguaro Cacti

    Apache Trail, AZ; APR 2018

  • Sonoran Desert Vegetation

    Sonoran Desert Vegetation

    Saguaro, Ocotillo, Prickly Pear and Others. Apache Trail, AZ; APR 2018

  • Desert Landscape with Cactus

    Desert Landscape with Cactus

    Apache Trail, AZ; APR 2018

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