A setting looking to the southwest while taking in views across canyons, gullies and colorful slickrock from a roadside pullout along Utah Scenic Byway 12. This is in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. I decided to take advantage of some nearby shrubbery and old trees present to create a look beyond. I also closed down on the aperture so that more of the entire image would be in focus.

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Oct 27-30, 2007

The Great Smoky Mountain

A very beautiful place to shoot

Cades Cove is a lush valley surrounded by mountains and one of the most popular destinations in the Great Smokies. Deer are almost always sighted in the fields, and observations of other wildlife, including bear, Wild Turkey, and fox are possible. Please use pullouts when viewing wildlife and never approach or feed animals.

A wide array of historic buildings dating back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries is scattered through-out the cove. These include a grist mill, a variety of barns, three churches, and a marvelous collection of log homes and outbuildings.

An 11-mile one-way loop road takes you around the cove. Traffic will be heavy during the tourist season in summer and fall and on weekends year-round.

A visitor center (open daily), restrooms, and the Cable Mill historic area are located half-way around the loop road.

Numerous trails originate in the cove, including the five-mile roundtrip trail to Abrams Falls and the short Cades Cove Nature Trail. Longer hikes to Thunderhead Mountain and Rocky Top (made famous by the popular song) also begin in the cove.

Several designated backcountry campsites (camping by permit only) are located along trails.

Only bicycle and foot traffic are allowed on the loop road from sunrise until 10:00 a.m. every Saturday and Wednesday morning from early May until late September

A setting looking to the southwest while taking in views of ridges and peaks with Storm Mountain while at a roadside pullout along the Banff-Windermere Highway. This is in Banff National Park.

The caption used is from a poem. Over the Land Is April by Robert Louis Stevenson

While at a roadside pullout along the Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park. The view is looking to the southwest to the ridges and peaks of Mount Amery and the Lyell Group. As I didn’t have that complete unobstructed view with the nearby evergreens, I liked how they added a foreground interest and layer for a look beyond to the North Saskatchewan River and mountains.

In Joshua Tree National Park at a roadside pullout looking to the northwest and across a snowy landscape with Joshua Tree and other desert plant-life.

A setting looking to the northwest while taking in views across the Mojave Desert setting at a roadside pullout along California State Route 127. Nopah Peak and the Nopah Range are off in the distance.

It is my first trip to Yosemite. It is to relax and enjoy the wondrous of the natural and spend time with family. I have no plan to make any particular photo shoot.

As I had done taken sunset photo at the tunnel view point. I left and headed home with my family. As I turned the corner, I saw the color and immediately parked the car at a small pullout area. I jumped out of the car and took the picture. It is my favor photo of this trip from a unknown place in Yosemite.

In progress set/pieces for new stop motion film project. Gross broke bachelor studio apartment. :)

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My Wife and I drove up to Tahoe for the presidents day weekend to ski, was a nice drive as we avoided most of the traffic near Sacramento but as we got closer to Tahoe I realized that it was winter and the sunset time is early so I hurried us to our hotel checked in and I darted to bonsai rock. Last time I was here was couple of years back so I had a little sense of direction but when i got closer i mistakenly parked at a pullout about 3/4 south of the trailhead, I looked around to find the trail head but what looked like a trail was not really a trail (which i realized later) as i descended down the path towards the lake its a steep 100 ft -150 ft descent I ended with big boulders blocking my view of the lake I tried climbing through them to get a view and after some struggle, scratches and a cut on my palm (some rocks are sharp even though they dont look the part) I could see Bonsai rock to north of me so I hiked across many boulders ,shrubs snow to get to this spot right in time for sunset.

quickly took out my brand spanking new D800E and scrambled to get a composition.

I shot this with a B+W polarizer

3 stop HS Singh Ray ND filter

2 stop Rev Grad Singh Ray ND Filter

Camera NIKON D800E

Lens Nikon 16-35

Focal Length 16mm

Shutter Speed 20 sec

Aperture f/18

ISO/Film 80

Tripod: Really Right Stuff with RRS Ball-head and L Bracket

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A setting looking to the northwest while taking in views across mountain desert setting in this part of Joshua Tree National Park. This was at a roadside pullout along the main part road.

A setting looking to the southwest while taking in views of Bertha Peak and Mount Crandell. This is in Waterton Lakes National Park. While overcast, I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 6 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

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I recently returned from close to two weeks of travel which took me to 3 days in the beautiful seaside town of Charleson, SC and a week at the ocean along the Outerbanks of NC where I still think Duck is one of the more attractive areas there. I managed to take a number of shots at both locations and will be posting soon.

Back to the Tetons of Jackson Hole, WY.... a number of miles north of Jackson Hole, WY, past the Snake River Pullout, you'll find this scene not too far from the Triangle-X Ranch.

I thought I'd try the b-w version and I kinda liked it so I decided to post it.

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After spending a week in Moab, Utah this year jeeping with friends, I drove up to Wyoming to visit my son. Along the way, I passed by Bridal Veil Falls near Provo, Utah. The falls are 607 feet high.

Taken from the touristy pullout spot along the road.

This bear was spotted roadside on my last day in Glacier NP. No pullout but traffic was light so I had about 15 minutes before another car came and forced me to move on. The bear was so busy eating his berries that he paid no attention to the gathering crowd.

Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and loved ones.

I pullout this photo from an autumn past. The fall is such a beautiful time of the year for me . . . my favorite season.

Its very rare to have a full moon along with an Northern Light event intense enough to over power the full Moon.

This was shot in Denali Nat. Park In Alaska, some web sights recommend it as a destination for excellent Northern Lights viewing which it is the bad news is everything is closed for the winter the closest town is Healy 11 miles north. The n. Lights are visible during late August early Sept. late in the tourist season.

Winter time the weather is cold, Snowy and windy.

After wintering in Denali Park for two winters this area requires a lot of effort to get to some the best vantage points, Extreme winter skills are required to venture more the a few hundred feet of the highway, There are maintained roadside pullouts that offer a good view if your not prepared. don't not pull off the side of the road to photograph anything if you can help it this is a two lane highway and is the main supply route for Fairbanks and there are trucks traveling this road and stopping on the side of the road isn't a safe option.

One other to keep in mind this shot required a snowmobile and snow shoes to reach this vantage point and this is the test shot and the event subsided shortly after.

A setting looking to the south while taking in views across ridges and peaks of the Northern Blue Ridge while at a roadside pullout along the Blue Ridge Parkway. This is located at the Pine Tree Overlook. I took advantage of the higher ground I was located on and angled my Nikon Z8 Mirrorless Camera slightly downward to create more of a sweeping view across this Virginia landscape. I liked how it brought the horizon higher into the image and seemed to created more of a sense of grandeur, looking down into the valley and with the ridges and peaks I'll send the distance.

Ustevatn is a lake in Norway. In August 2002 my Norwegian cousin took me on a driving tour of the fjords.

We drove by the lake while on our way to the fjords. Norwegian National Road 7 runs along the north side of the lake.

The photo was taken on a pullout along the road.

Overlook pullout somewhere on the central Oregon coast.

Inner vision

The Walker Camp Prong along the U.S. 441 Scenic outside of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

In Joshua Tree National Park while walking around a roadside pullout around the Ryan Mountain Trailhead with a view looking to the west-northwest to Joshua Trees and more distant ridges and peaks of the Joshua Tree Ranges. That desert mountain landscape is what I wanted to capture with the same image, but I was also drawn to the snowcapped peaks off in the distance of the San Bernardino Mountains that I identified with the Peak Visor app as likely being Onyx Peak and Tip Top Mountain.

This pond is visible from a pullout on East Entrance Road in Yellowstone. It's in a depression that is invariably lush and green, making the area very attractive habitat for wildlife. I always hope to see grizzlies there, there are a couple known to use the territory, but so far all I've seen is the sky and trees (lodgepole pines), both alive and well and only skeletal from forest fires, reflected in the water. It's also a great spot for wildflowers.

This bear was spotted roadside on my last day in Glacier NP. No pullout but traffic was light so I had about 15 minutes before another car came and forced me to move on. The bear was so busy eating his berries that he paid no attention to the gathering crowd.

When I planned to visit the Columbia River area, Panther Creek Falls on the Washington side of the river was the number one waterfall I wanted to see. A lot of the pictures of this fall look so amazing and the size in the photos don't really put this waterfall into perspective. When you first arrive at the pullout, you walk down a short trail to a viewing platform and the size of the fall is much larger than I had imagined. After viewing the falls from the platform, we scramble our way down the steep challenging slopes and finally make it down to the foot of the falls. The most challenging thing about shooting this watefall was it's so misty. This was the mistiest waterfall I photographed on my Summer trip. The water was some of the coldest waters I waded into, and for my shot of Pather Creek Falls, I ended up picking this shot that didn't require walking into the waters.

Panther Creek Falls

Columbia River Gorge, Washington

This is a Yellowstone NP bison foraging in belly deep snow. For those familiar with the park, he was in the meadow across from the Barronette Peak pullout. Over a 48 hour period he had moved approximately 50 yards. They expend as little energy as possible.

... I'm going to explore the area around this formation more; to look for a new and different angle from which to photograph it. I've driven a little closer on a dirt road, but usually settle for a shot like this, taken from a pullout off US Route 163. This part of the drive is like Monument Valley to me... I'm always passing through, in a hurry to reach another destination, no matter which direction of travel I'm driving.

This is Mexican Hat, named for the tiny Utah town about five miles away... or was the town named for the formation? Anyway, I must have really been in a hurry this time because I only took three photos. I chose to display the widest-angle view for this album, because I thought the grasses in the foreground provided a nice contrast to the rugged country beyond... although I'm sure walking through those grasses wouldn't exactly be like a walk in the park.

I've seen and photographed climbers on Mexican Hat, and there are roads that go to or perhaps beyond it. I'm really curious about the view from "the other side".

By the way... According to Wikipedia,

"The name 'Mexican Hat' comes from a curiously sombrero-shaped, 60-foot (18 m) wide by 12-foot (3.7 m) thick, rock outcropping on the northeast edge of town.

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While at a roadside pullout along U.S. Route 163 with a view looking to the east-southeast to the Big Indian sandstone formation in Monument Valley. In composing this image, I decided to zoom in with the vocal length and have much of the formation fill the image center. I wanted those to include some foreground to add some interest to the image, as well as using the blue skies above as a backstop to highlight the formation too. The rest was later making adjustments with control points in DxO PhotoLab 7 to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

The caption used is from a poem by W.B. Yeats, That Man who dreamed of Faeryland

Seems to me that it used to be easier to get good photos of coyotes in Yellowstone. At one time they weren't as shy and skittish as now. This may just reflect their more highly tuned danger-radar as the wolf population thrives. Or, since they are too easily rewarded for begging for food, the fact is that rangers often have disincentivized begging behavior in the coyotes, since wildlife-feeding behavior in humans is much harder to extinguish.

This thin but healthy-looking individual was running down the middle of the road, as its kind is like to do in winter where the snow isn't so deep. I and one other car slowly followed it until it found the spot where it wanted to leave the road and check out the landscape under the trees. A couple of times Coyote stopped and sniffed, then looked back at the assembled 2-car paparazzi before heading off to the wilds.

Yellowstone National Park.

* Code for hazing, that is, shooting bean-bags or just something scary and loud, to encourage wildlife to relocate, in the case of coyotes, usually that means away from picnic areas and pullouts where people get out of their cars and fall prey to the sad, hungry expressions coyotes manage almost as well as domestic dogs do.

Noct-Nikkor

Taken from a pullout along WA-291 in Stevens County in eastern Washington State near the community of Tum Tum.

A glorious day for a walk in downtown Reykjavik! The weather was super and great for an outing with Gramma and baby! Here we encountered the swans trying to run towards us on the ice and were doing a funky dance in the meantime :)

Sorry, no bread to give you as its not good for your bellies! A first time outing for both my side-kicks who really seemed to enjoy the show; even if one slept right through it!

Never pass up moments where you can enjoy the little things in life, as they are gone so quickly, never to return!! :)

Lesson of the Day: Stroller doubles as a tripod holder and duck poop collector (and of course a cozy pullout for Mr. Peepers)!!

Anyone that has been to Yellowstone knows what a Bear jam is, but maybe you've never heard of a Grouse jam.

Well let me tell you how this went down. Mid day and the Bears were not to be found, probably laying down taking a nap. The Rangers also take this time of day to take a little break. This past May there were Bears everywhere, especially mornings and late afternoons and this kept the Rangers very busy keeping the people and Bears at a safe distance from each other. We were just hanging out at a pullout and Linda spotted a Grouse and called me and Graham over to see and photograph it. We both had the big lenses and within a few minutes there were cars and people everywhere, Then ranger Ed showed up to see what all the commotion was about and he asked me what it was and I told him it was a Grouse. He had this confused look on his face and I ask him if he had ever been to a Grouse jam and he said nope, shook his head and he left. We probably didn't create the first Grouse jam is Yellowstone but we did get Ranger Ed to his first Grouse jam..;-)

Yellowstone National Park

Dusky Grouse

At the pullout for Scott Gomer Creek Falls. Above this hill is the flat expanse of Geneva Park in a broad U-shaped valley, which is used for pasturing horses. Below here, where the glacier never reached, the valley is narrow and V-shaped. The linked brochure says the stream drops 300 feet in a run of about a thousand feet.

www.codot.gov/travel/colorado-byways/north-central/guanel...

Alaska Glacier Seafood Processing, Auke Bay, Alaska.

While at a roadside pullout along the Avenue of the Giants (California 254) with a view looking up and to the north-northwest at nearby coast redwoods in Humboldt Redwoods State Park.

Morning cloud cover hovers over Stevens Canyon, Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington, USA. I was driving to the eastern part of the national park when I saw this scene developing in the sky. Trouble was I was on a narrow two lane with no shoulders and a very steep drop-off. I prayed for a spot in the road just wide enough to allow me to park my Jeep just off the pavement so I wouldn't be a hazard to anyone else traveling the road at that early morning hour. My prayers were answered. I think the wheels on the passenger side of the Jeep were barely in contact with the ground on this narrow pullout on the shoulder. I managed to fire off several shots as the mist and cloud cover boiled and transformed dramatically before my eyes. Very quickly, the sun broke through and made the scene unmanageable due to the brightness of the sky. Happily, I came away with this shot before that happened.

A setting looking to the southeast while taking in views through a forested landscape. This is at a roadside pullout along the Blue Ridge Parkway at the PunchBowl Mountain Overlook.

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Here is a crop of the Grand Teton from a little half way down the long asphalt pullout just below the 2nd parking lot for Oxbow Bend.

I'll be arriving in JH at 930a on Sept 28...and it appears the fall colors will be working with me on my timing again this year.

This will be my last post until after I return from my fall color photo shoot in Jackson Hole on Oct. 5.

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A setting looking to the southeast while taking in views across a mountain valley with evergreen trees present in this part of the San Juan National Forest. This was at a roadside pullout along US Route 550 (San Juan Skyway Scenic and Historic Byway) in southeastern Colorado. Off in the distance are the ridges and peaks of Twilight Peak of Pigeon Peak that part of the San Juan and Needle Mountains.

It was a wonderful feeling to see the Sun and feel its warmness, while you are trekking in mountains in wet, chill, snow and blowing icy wind.

It was windy and extremly cold, nearly exhausted with tough trekking. Suddenly our helpers stopped and lead us into a warm tent, sit around us protectively and offered piping hot Tea. When we come out of the tent, we were struck with Awe with this Sunrise scenery.

Wonderful Experience, somhow I managed to pullout the Camera and make this shot

While at a roadside pullout along the Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway (California State Route 89) in Lassen National Forest. The setting is with a view to the north-northeast to a nearby hillside with evergreens. Having only flown into Sacramento earlier that morning and made the drive after that, it was a delight to see these tall trees all around!

A little fireweed was contributing to the bouquet-like floral growth next to and below the pullout with the pond view where I stood. Fireweed is one of the first plants to take root and bloom in burned-over soil. This is indeed an area that suffered significant burns in the past. Evidently fireweed contains a lot of vitamin C and bears, which I'm always looking for in the area where I took the photo, find fireweed to be good eating.

Besides all that, its blooms are lovely.

East Entrance Road, Yellowstone National Park

Here are two more photos from long long ago with my very first digital camera, a little pocket sized Canon point and shoot affair. This was my first visit to Skagway and the legendary gold rush railroad that calls that port town home. In addition to riding the length of the in service mainline to Carcross I also spent part of a Saturday photographing some trains. While most of the railroad is fabulously remote and inaccessible there are a few shots to be had from the roadsides. This view looking down from a pullout along the South Klondike Highway is one of the best.

I stayed at this same spot to capture the Saturday Fraser Meadows Steam excursion next. 1908 Baldwin built 2-8-0 69 leads the four car train through the rugged terrain beside the Tutahi River near MP 25.5 on the Canadian Sub just under two miles from the depot, water tank and balloon loop at Fraser across from the Canadian Customs station rugged terrain beside the Tutshi River. The squat little steamer sadly hasn't operated since 2013 and I'm grateful I got to see her under steam twice.

The White Pass and Yukon Route is America’s busiest tourist railroad and an engineering marvel of any era. Regular tourist trains operate for the four month cruise ship season of mid-May to mid-Sept with the WP&Y largely dormant the remaining 8 months of the year. In days of old it was a 110 mile freight hauler supporting the Yukon mining industry and before that a major WWII supply conduit during the building of the Alaska Hwy. Like the town it calls home, the WP&Y was born during the heady days of the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush and experienced booms and busts through the years but has persevered, and today is the most popular excursion for the hundreds of thousands of tourists who visit Alaska each summer.

Construction began in May 1898 and on July 21, 1898, an excursion train hauled passengers for 4 miles out of Skagway, the first train to ever operate in the territory of Alaska. By February of the following year the rails reached 20 miles to the 2885 ft. White Pass Summit and on July 6, 1899 they reached the shote of Lake Bennett, thei approximate half way point to the road's planned terminus on the Yukon River in Whitehorse. It would be another year before the last spike was driven at Carcross on July 29, 1900 completing the railroad.

The 3 ft gauge pike would soldier through boom and bust periods for the next 82 years until the Faro lead/zinc mine which was its major source of revenue in later years closed in 1982. The railroad itself went dormant shortly thereafter but was revived six years later as strictly a passenger hauling tourist operation. While the vast majority of passengers only travel the 20 spectacular mountain climbing miles from tidewater to the international border at White Pass Summit the railroad ultimately reopened 67.5 miles to Carcross, Yukon leaving only the northern 40 miles bereft of trains for the past four decades (excepting one special that traveled all the way to the north end of the line in 1897 for the city's Centennial celebration).

To learn more about this amazing 107 mile long railroad check out the WP&Y's web site for more history and maps and other facts: wpyr.com/history/wpyr-facts/

Fraser, British Columbia

Saturday July 5, 2008

Rudbeckia californica, in Crane Flat, Yosemite. The upper end of this meadow is a great floral display in early summer, and there's a big pullout right by it.

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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! - John Muir

Often, when looking to properly express the emotions I feel having been to the mountains, I find that Muir has said it best. I had the good fortune of taking my camera around the Yosemite valley a bit this past weekend and will have many a photograph to share as time goes on. For now, I will leave with you this one, simple frame I made from a favorite spot and an anecdote (after the photo). Scroll all the way to the end of this post to read about the workshops!

Live (and photograph) in the now.

Photography is a strange brew of pre-visualizing the photograph to be made and then reacting to the curve-balls that nature throws our way. When I first began taking photographs - I would try so hard to visualize exactly what the image would look like and then would focus on making that mental image a real one. As I have gotten better, I've realized that this attempt is rarely, if ever, successful. Instead, the best photographs are the result of matching a preconceived photographic concept with the constraints of reality.

For example, I decided the night before I made this photograph that, the rising sun being somewhat north in the sky this time of year and the view from the Tunnel View pullout almost due east, I could get a great frame of the sun peering around the massive, granite cathedral walls of Yosemite. I didn't know exactly where the sun would peek out and I wasn't sure the concept would work at all - but I headed along the Wawona road prior to sunrise, idea in head, ready to react. The reality of sunrise from Tunnel View did not exactly match the image in my head - but the main elements were all there. Importantly, however, the best light was just before the sun popped out from behind El Capitan, something I didn't expect. The valley was a little foggy and the chilly, early morning mist made for incredible, diffuse light. Amber rays streamed along the length of the valley and illuminated the dewy pine needles and the face of Half Dome. Those little moments where you see something so awesome yet unexpected are what make the journey (not to mention the dragging-your-ass-out-of-bed-before-the-sun) of photography so worth it!

While I was making this image and basking in the splendor of it - a few other photographers were experiencing it in their own way. One very nice fellow had been there since well before the sun had come up - and another, like me, arrived right before the show began. At some point, like-minded and like-interested people get around to talking shop. I gathered that the other late-arrival had some experience as a photographer. He began telling his neighbor that, "Well, this is a good spot for photographs and the sunrise was nice, but I really prefer there to be clouds in the sky."

Now, this photographer was nice enough and I'm sure a stand-up guy, but this attitude is the antithesis of a successful one for photography (especially nature photography). At the very least, this attitude ensures that you will rarely, if ever, be in love with the photographs you make. The world is messy and non-uniform, and one must be flexible to react appropriately and make something beautiful photographically. I assume this photographer meant that his photographs might be better if there had been some clouds in the sky. What he might not realize, however, is that, had there been clouds, the conditions that made for those big, beautiful sheets of golden sunlight permeating the valley would not exist. The clear sky overnight meant the Earth radiated an enormous amount of heat and, as warmer, moister air settled over the valley, the ground cooled it so that misty formed. Moreover, had their been clouds, sunrise might have been behind a cloud entirely, it might have been raining, etc etc. All I can say for sure is, it wouldn't have been as it was in reality. So, what I heard when he said that was, "This amazing, beautiful, jaw-dropping and inspiring sunrise that I was privileged enough to witness, well it was okay. I mean it would have been awesome if there were clouds, but then I would probably also want there to be a black bear fighting an elk in the middle of the frame as that large tree on the right were being struck by lightning during a day-time meteor shower."

You only go around once, there's no after, no rapture - some people never see Yosemite, let alone from Tunnel View with a camera at sunrise. Reality and life's surprises are always more splendid than our paltry imaginations. And that is the heart of the matter. Do you want to react and participate photographically in reality, or are you merely after a very particular photograph, doomed to forever be disappointed by glorious nature when it doesn't line up with your expectations? Live in the now - enjoy what is and free yourself from the burden of wanting to order the world in your own way.

Photography workshops, Saturday, June 25th and Saturday, July 30th.

Last year, before I left Chicago, I ran a few photography workshops and had a blast doing so. I had about 12 participants in all and we had a wonderful time making some photographs around the city and learning about how to improve composition, exposure and processing for cityscape and landscape photography. I have managed to stay in contact with a few of those people and follow their photographic work and have remained available to answer their questions ever since that workshop. All in all, it was a really fun experience and I want to repeat that success out here in California. These workshops are going to be hosted on 6/25/2011 and 7/30/2011 in a few of my favorite spots along the San Francisco coast. We will probably head to the area along Ocean Beach, Lands End and end up somewhere where we can get a view of the Golden Gate Bridge.

I'll be sharing more and more details as we go forward, but to give you a general impression, we will focus on effective visualization and composition through a few exercises at home before the workshop and in the field during. We will then focus on getting perfect exposure and how to capture images for HDR processing. I structure these workshops so that everyone from the very novice to the experienced photographer will find them entertaining and useful. Each workshop will have an optional, additional session that will cover exactly how I process my photographs, this is really useful for those of you interested in using HDR effectively. After the workshop, we will stay in communication via a Google Group forum so that you can share experiences with one another and ask questions if you've forgotten something or want some advice.

Price is $200 for workshop, $250 with post-processing portion. Bring a friend and you'll both get $50 off (you will also get $50 for each additional friend you bring, i.e. bring three friends and they each pay $200 for both workshop and post-processing session and you pay $100). The goal is to have fun and connect and learn together, so I will aim for a group big enough to have fun and small enough that we all get to work together directly.

Register by filling out the form below or by sending me an email with your name and which date would work for you! If you are signing up with a friend - just send me a note or put that information into the "Questions/comments" section in the form below. Hope to see you in June or July!

While driving from Bryce National Park to Arches, I made sure to hit the Escalante National Monument.

It is just a playground for photographers, and you will find yourself stopping at every pullout!

A setting looking to the west while taking in views across mountain desert setting in this part of Joshua Tree National Park. This was at a roadside pullout along the main part road. In capturing this image, I decided to angle my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward to bring out more of a sweeping view across this national park landscape. The foreground had varied details with the Joshua Trees, sagebrush and creosote bushes, and leftover snow from the storm the day prior. In my mind, all those came together to bring out a non-typical landscape that most do not experience in Joshua Tree National Park

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The first part of June when the Tetons are still in their early Spring the weather may be rainy and the clouds very threatening. Driving one day along the park road, I came to a large pullout where you soon come up a switchback type walkway right down to the water.

Once I'm down by the water, I turn north and walk along the shoreline climbing over numerous fallen trees and finally arriving at a spot very few go.

So here you have a shot looking north toward Mt Moran.

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My 2017 4-5 day photography workshop schedule:

ANP, Canyonlands & Monument Valley - March 24-29

Icons of the Southwest w/Ryan Smith - April 23-28

Jackson Hole, Wyoming spring - June 21-25

Jackson Hole, Wyoming fall - September 19-23

The great part is that in 2017 I will return to Jackson Hole for the incredible wildflowers throughout the valley and the surrounding mountains.

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