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Unto These Hills - Great Smoky Mountains National Park Scenic Landscape Cherokee NC
The last light of a spring day fades away over the distant mountain ridges near Cherokee and Bryson City North Carolina. I shot this image about this time of the year last spring, and it seemed like a good time to develop and upload it since there won't be any new images from there this year with Great Smoky Mountains National Park currently closed because of all this craziness going on now. Hope y'all are doing good and staying safe, and hopefully we'll all be able to get back out there to enjoy these sights again sometime soon! Enjoy the view y'all!
Single exposure, Nikon D800 and 24-70mm f/2.8
© 2020 Dave Allen Photography, All Rights Reserved. This image may NOT be used for anything without my explicit permission.
Brilliant fall colors spreading across North Cascades National Park's Heather Maple Pass Loop.
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Some trips you take everything just goes right. More often than not, they go wrong. But from August 30th-September 7th. Everything seemed to go right. After photographing amazing sunrises, sunsets, and mountain peaks. Our final stop in Utah left us in awe as we watched an incredible, and electrified monsoon roll over the mountains.
The dynamic diversity found in Everglades National Park is driven by the the sheer dynamism of the weather found in this environment- tropical and rainy, the Everglades can often be gloomy, grey, and wet. On the day that I took this picture, a blanket of clouds covered the entire park and boxed in the scenery. But then, as the sun began to sink towards the horizon and break through the clouds, a magic show began.
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In @evergladesnps, you are on Seminole and Tequesta land. #FindYourPark
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- shot on a #sonya7riv, #shotwithhoya’s polarizer with a 70-300 mm lens. ISO 100, f22, 1/100 secs. Edited in #Lightroom.
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Colletes aestivalis. Rare? or Not Rare? This is a Heuchera specialist. Heuchera is planted everywhere, why is the species not seen and seen by some as a potential species of concern. A few things pilgrim. First most of the Heuchera out there are part of a hybrid Heuchera swarm (I like the ring of that phrase, but, sadly, it will not often come up in casual conversation). OK, so C. aestivalis is not interested in these hybrids. Also, wild Heuchera is hard to find and its little brown be hard to see. We now know of several populations some from areas where H. americana have been planted. So, 2 lessons. 1. Plant H. americana. 2. Look for bees on H. americana and maybe our friend will be there. Brooke Goggins took the picture and the specimen was found in Virginia, but I can't recall which group!
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All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish.
Photography Information:
Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML
Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
Millions of stars pass by as we transition from night to day.. and to think, El Capitan and the other mountains here were formed millions of years ago.. It just makes you wonder.. Enjoy!
Happy #NationalWildlifeDay! Celebrated on September 4th, National Wildlife Day is about we can do to protect endangered species and their habitats. This bear encounter in @sequoiakingsnps was one of the best wildlife encounters I’ve ever had and perfectly exemplifies how habitats and species are intertwined. The bear might not be overtly threatened but Sequoias and their environments are under constant threats from wildfires and global warming. We have to protect one to save the other. Getting to see this bear was a sublime experience; he paid no attention to us and was content to hunt for roots and berries in the middle of the meadow, about 100 yards from the trail. This gave me ample time and security to set up my tripod and document his work as the sun began to set lighting up the trees around us. It was a perfect moment. Swipe through the gallery to see the sunset, too. A bear and a sunset amongst Sequoias! Time stood still. It was a wonderful moment that’ll be with me for a long time.
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🌐 - In @sequoiakingsnps, you are on Western Mono land. #FindYourPark
- shot on a #sonya7riv, #shotwithhoya’s polarizer with a 70-300 mm lens. Edited in #Lightroom.
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Zion is known as “Yosemite in red” and that’s never more apparent than in Kolob Canyons where the sharp spires of rock give way to alpine green, lit by glowing sun and sky.
In Zion, you are on Pueblos and Southern Paiute land. Zion’s native name is Mukuntuweap. Zion is the name given to the canyon by American explorers.
A warm summer day in Alaska, but not along Turnagain Arm where it always seems to have a cool, strong wind to remind you that Winter is Coming!
Turnagain Arm near Bird Point, Alaska
Monolith - Looking Glass Rock North Carolina Blue Ridge Parkway Scenic Landscape
Amazing light filtering through the clouds and settling on the valley below as a passing storm breaks up over the iconic Looking Glass Rock along the Blue Ridge Parkway in western North Carolina. Looking Glass Rock is a solid granite pluton monolith which originally formed from a large bubble of magma deep under the earths surface, which was eventually lifted up from below during the creation of the mountains. As the mountains slowly erode away, these massive pluton monoliths are harder than the surrounding terrain and are therefore left exposed.
On this particular morning, this was supposed to just be a quick stop for a shot as I was passing by on my way to find better conditions. It had been raining fairly heavily under rather boring gray skies and my plan was to drive west to find the edge of the storm, which wasn't supposed to end until hours later, and hopefully find some sweet light to work with. Things didn't turn out that way, and thank goodness I stopped here to grab a quick shot before heading further down the road. Just minutes after stopping and starting to shoot, the sky started breaking open in places and raining down this beautiful light all over the valley in front of me. It was an extremely difficult scene to shoot as I had to stand on top of my truck to get this perspective over the brightly colored sassafras in the foreground, which meant shooting handheld, in somewhat dark conditions, with a need for an extremely deep depth of field forcing shutter speeds much slower than normal, while it rained all over my lens for pretty much every shot. Almost every frame had big water droplets somewhere, but the scene was so beautifully surreal that I knew I just had to shoot it. In the fifteen minutes or so I was there, the scene changed very rapidly from gray and boring to absolutely beautiful, and then straight to crystal clear blue skies hours ahead of schedule. I never did find another shot that day as the sky was brutally clear and sunny immediately after shooting this scene. No matter how well we research weather patterns, read forecasts, and plan ahead of time, in these mountains sometimes Mother Nature has her own plan, and we are simply lucky to be there as it unfolds in unexpected ways. Hope you enjoy the view!
Single exposure, Nikon D850 w/ 24-70mm f/2.8 and Singh-Ray 3-stop GND
© 2019 Dave Allen Photography, All Rights Reserved. This image may NOT be used for anything without my explicit permission.
As I was standing on the cliff face I was in awe just watching the power of the waves crashing on the coast. It was an overcast and some times rainy morning but it was one of my favorite times this year making images. Yes I witnessed some amazing sites, but for some reason I just loved it.
After Making this image April, Bella and I walked a little closer to the ocean and got down a little closer to the water. Bella and I found this sheltered spot where she could check for chipmunks while I watched April make some images. In that moment I took out my phone and just started typing what I was thinking and later that night I opened up my notes app and read it again.... I will talk about that in another post some other time.
Happy Monday everyone
Some places and some songs just go well together:
Maybe the season /
The colors change in the valley skies /
Dear God, I've sealed my fate /
Running through Hell, Heaven can wait /
Long road to ruin there in your eyes /
Under the cold streetlights /
No tomorrow, no dead end in sight - foo fighters
️- In Death Valley National Park, you are on Shoshone land. #FindYourPark
- shot on a #sonya7riv. Edited in #Lightroom.
There are 6 families of bees in North America. The bee here Melitta melittoides is member of Melittidae. Melittidae has only 2 genera of bees in the East. Most of them are highly specialized. Our friend here is a Lyonia (maleberry) specialist. In the face shot of the female...check out the size of those mandibles. I am not sure what their use is, but it would be either in opening up flowers or some sort of nesting function. I know of no other bee that has anything close to that shape. Collected on Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Anne Arundel County Maryland.
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All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish.
Photography Information:
Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML
Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
April's Pink Moon's moonset, just before sunrise, from Everglades National Park. The moon is seen setting behind pine trees on the way to the Mahogany Hammock trail. The moon appears full but the "official" phase started four hours later.
Alaskan morning light reflected in the ever-swirling, ever-changing waters flowing from the lake.
Daves Creek near Tern Lake
Moose Pass, Alaska
When I got up here years ago a guy had already illuminated the arch (light painting is no longer allowed in Arches).. a little later in the night a group of hikers came up to the top spilling their headlamps across the foreground lighting that up for me as well.. So I can't take credit for the lighting, but luck and timing is everything.
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A recent snow in Yosemite added some wonderful winter feel in the valley. Although not enough for Firefalls this year, perhaps next year will be better.
Now, here is Augochloropsis metallica metallica. See the previous post about A. m. fulgida for contrast. Note the generally darker blue and the fringe of stiff hairs along the edge of the abdomen.Brooke Googins is the photographer. This bee was collected on Plummer's Island as part of Gene Scarpulla's bee project in the Chesapeake Bay of Maryland. ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~~~~~~~~~
All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish.
Photography Information:
Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML
Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
"20 years from now, you'll be more disappointed by the things you didn't do, than by the ones you did do. Sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sail, and Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain
The connection I felt with Joshua Tree was almost immediate. Almost too immediate, honestly, because the experiences I had entering the park were sudden, chaotic, and grand. I’ve never entered a park in such a fashion. Usually, my first hours in a national park are planned out, methodical, and subdued. Not so in Joshua Tree where I entered the park at sunset, saw the 2022 lunar eclipse, and then experienced my first earthquake. It was thrilling. I love Joshua Tree for a lot of reasons- its strange beauty, its open vastness, its overwhelming quiet and the solitude of the Mojave, but, honestly? Those first moments of frantic connection and discovery set the whole tone for my relationship with what is now one of my favorite national parks.
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A recent trip to Yosemite on it's first winter storm. We arrived at the park under a heavy blizzard condition, but quite excited seeing the park coated with thick layer of snow. To our luck that as soon as we arrived at Tunnel View, the sky opened up for a good half an hour. Yosemite at it's best during winter.
Every trip to Yosemite is fantastic and unique but being snowed in last week definitely tops the list.❄️
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Took me forever to find this waterfall as there aren't any signs even promoting "Twin Sisters Falls" located in Cuyahoga National Park. But, with some help of the All Trails app I was able to finally find the general area I was supposed to be in. After making my way through a slippery, narrow trail and paralleling a small creek I found this beautiful location. About 15 minutes after shooting, I turned around to get my bag and about had the crap scared out of me as I suddenly saw two people walking up the same creek bed.
Chris (pictured in the photo) was out and about showing his friend Tainui who'm he met while doing seasonal work in Zion National Park around the area and had also heard of this waterfall. Both are fellow hikers, photographers and future van life travelers. Chris proceeded to tell me about his adventures out in Zion, Yosemetti, and Glacier National Parks and I think was equally as excited as I was to stumble across another adventurer from Ohio as they are pretty rare to come by. Heers to new friendships and embracing the beautiful Winter scenes before Spring and Summer travels come back.
Bodie Island Lighthouse with the Milky Way. June 2022.
The first night of my OBX Night Sky Workshop was here at Bodie Island Lighthouse, it has always been a favorite of mine in the OBX, but as the years have passed by, more and more photographers are here at night.
On this particular night there was about 70 photographers. I typically max my group out between 6-7 to keep numbers down and to provide enough attention to everyone while limiting our impacts on whatever areas we travel to. There was another workshop group there that night with 30+ and that is unacceptable to me for a number of reasons and nothing good ever comes out of that. Keep those groups small people!
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A young couple embraces the beauty of Death Valley last week during a spectacular sunset. I wish that I had put some effort into tracking them down so I could send them this shot, but the clouds hypnotized me and I couldn't stop shooting... you know how that goes...
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Happy 86th anniversary to Joshua Tree National Park, which was designated as a National Monument on this day by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on this day in 1936. Joshua Tree National Park really did a number on me. I’ve fallen in love with other parks upon my first visit before like Bryce, or Yellowstone, or Smoky, but Joshua Tree is so weird and surreal and captivating in a whole new way.
Joshua Tree feels like an alien world. It's not the same alien beauty of Yellowstone, which has its "traditional" wilderness beauty augmented by the bizarre sights of steam and colorful springs, where the ethereal motion of steam and water add a kinetic layer to the land. Joshua Tree isn’t the same as the alien beauty of Bryce, whose weird hoodoo shapes and forms become charming and enchanting as you make your way around or into the amphitheater. Instead, Joshua Tree’s essential strangeness comes in the downright stark and bleak beauty of sun-bleached rocks providing a backdrop to artfully the twisted and convoluted outlines of beautiful trees, each one with its own personality and a story to tell. Joshua Tree is a Dali painting come to life in stone and flora and fauna.
It's. Just. So. Different.
- In Joshua Tree, California, you are on Newe (Western Shoshone) and Yuhaviatam/Maarenga’yam (Serrano) land. #FindYourPark
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From July 2022:
One last day in this joyful place. I love wilderness. I love solitude. I love how these two wonderful qualities are found in abundance in National Parks. That said, sometimes, and especially in our oldest and more historic National Parks, there is a spot that everyone goes to and partakes in what I call "traditional tourist activities". That usually means seeing the most iconic or typical overview of the park they're in. Old Faithful is a great example of this. Mather Point, too. Here in Sequoia? It's the Sherman Tree. Seeing people pour into the Sequoia grove and marvel at the largest tree on Earth is joyful. There's electricity in the air. Happiness is found in spades. And there's a sense of solemn and noble purpose too; people have made the pilgrimage to this park, now it is time to act upon the place as generations before us have, too. That's usually executed in everyone gathering for a picture with the tree. But what stands out to me is the reaction immediately following or preceding the picture: pure awe that you're in the presence of something so ancient, so massive, and so pure, and so universal. Nearly everyone who has journeyed to Sequoia has done this. That sense of joy and awe and purpose is palpable. National Parks are landscapes of nature, yes, but also of emotion. This particular landscape is a landmark of joy. I'm going to miss Sequoia National Park very much. I didn't expect how much I would love it, but here we are. Joyous.
🌐- In Sequoia National Park, you are on Western Mono land. #FindYourPark
- shot on a #sonya7riv, #shotwithhoya’s polarizer with a 50 mm lens. Edited in #Lightroom.
📍 - #Sequoia #SequoiaNationalPark #California
- #Landscape
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what is your thinking on willows? Like most people, maybe not much. They make great wicker baskets. They also tolerate some pretty extreme conditions along rivers, streams, tundra, that other trees can handle. In the East they are the largest plant being that has "specialist" bees. That is bees that only use the pollen from one group of plants...in this case willow, and in Maryland...there are 8 species. Here is one. (Darn this is getting long...I better get to the point) Andrena macoupinensis, from a willow study in West Virginia by Sandy Simon. A new state record. Does that mean it is rare? Nope, probably thousands upon thousands of them in that state alone. Get some boots on the ground people. You aren't going to find anything watching Game of Thrones reruns when there is willow blooming. Picture by Brooke Goggins. Nice Lighting Brooke.
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All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish.
Photography Information:
Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML
Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
Happy anniversary to one of my favorite places in the world. John Muir's "Range of Light", Yosemite, was set aside by the federal government, on this day in history, 133 years ago. This action predates the founding of the National Park Service and even Yellowstone's incorporation as the first National Park. Yosemite came before all of that, set aside under the care of California, for all to enjoy. For me, Yosemite is the place of quiet contemplation and spiritual grandeur that really threw my love of the National Parks into overdrive. It is the best example of what 'America's best idea' is and an inspiration to the world. Happy anniversary, friend. I’m so happy I got to revisit you this summer and I can’t wait to return, again and again.
“ This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. “- John Muir
- In Yosemite, you are on Western Sierra and Miwok land.
You know the opening scenes in those epic adventure films? Where the movie fades up from black revealing these captivatingly beautiful, yet incredible daunting mountains that quite literally takes your breath away. Looking below seeing small clouds bow to the summits like giant mythical guardians and the wind singing through the valley’s like a natural orchestra. It’s something you can never truly imagine experiencing or seeing in person.
Being a small town Ohio kid, it never really crossed my mind to wonder what was truly out there to explore. When I first started traveling fully time just three years ago I found my trips turning into journeys and my journey’s turning into full scale expeditions. If you were to tell me as I sat in my desk at school that there would come a day that I would get to see and photograph these giant guardians I would have raised my eyebrow with a very confused look on my face. Getting to literally live out those opening scenes in the movies I have spent my life growing up watching is a feeling that words really can’t accurately put into perspective of what it felt like. When I look at this image, I can feel myself breathing in that mountain air. Hearing the wind sing through the valleys and see these clouds dance around the mountains.
This most recent trip to the arctic I not only feel incredibly blessed that I was able to have this opportunity, especially sharing it with my newly found good friend David. But, all of the positive feedback from these images I was able to bring home from this trip truly makes me feel like I am leaving an impacting on this planet for when my time clock is eventually up. Even if I’m not quite where I want to be yet. Seeing so many people get inspired by my work and reach out to me with messages of excitement planning an adventure they have always wanted to take, or living vicariously through these images warms my heart beyond belief and keeps me driven to stay out of my comfort zone and continue to take even bigger, and crazier adventures across this beautiful planet.