Notes from the Field
Moose Meadows and the Canadian Rockies in Winter!
If you ever feel the urge to stand between two incredible major North American mountain ranges in the Canadian Rockies in the most beautiful light in the middle of winter, this is the best spot: Moose Meadows in Banff National Park. This valley of the Bow River is...
At First Light – Banff’s Cascade Mountain
Finally! My first image of Banff's Cascade Mountain. Nearly three weeks after I attended the International Landscape Photographers’ Association Summit in Banff, Alberta last week, I'm finally getting a chance to start work on the images from my trip north of the...
The Enchanted Forest
Last week I was in Banff, Alberta where I had been attending the AMAZING Second Annual International Landscape Photographers’ Association Summit. On the way home headed westward back to Seattle, I took a curve on a mountain highway near Revelstoke, British...
Desert Bighorn Sheep Galore!!!!
I was hiking through the hills in Southern Utah in April when in the early evening I came upon a large band of about thirty individual desert bighorn sheep, including other rams, ewes, and lambs. It took me many hours of stalking and staying put to get this close for...
Pacific Madrone (also known as the Manzanita)
Easily one of the most beautiful of all of the hardwoods on the Pacific Coast, the Pacific madrone is a member of the heath family and closely related to rhododendrons, and is the most northerly broadleaf evergreen trees on the continent. Early Spanish settlers in...
Northwestern Garter Snake (Thamnphis ordinoides)
Unusual but not unheard of, this northwestern garter snake (Thamnophis ordinoides) was unexpectedly found actively hunting in the grass near the beach on a rare February sunny day on the Oregon Coast in Oswald West State Park. One of the smallest of garter snakes in...
Tiny Dancer – The Sierra Madre Dancer Damselfly
This beautifully blue male Sierra Madre dancer (Argia lacrimans) was found and photographed on a rock sticking out of Sonoita Creek in Patagonia, Arizona on a mild spring morning. Like all damselflies in the dancer family (named so because of their jerky, erratic and...
Thimbleberries… Hiker’s Candy!
I'm right in the middle of my busy portrait and wedding season, I thought I'd share some of the images I've taken from the Cascade Mountains to the Rocky Mountains of one of my favorite finds while hiking the beautiful Pacific Northwest - thimbleberries! If you have a...
Saskatoons! One of the Best and Tastiest Wild Mountain Berries!
WARNING! ALL DELICIOUS, RIPE BERRIES WERE DEFINITELY HARMED AND EATEN AFTER PHOTOGRAPHING THESE IMAGES Saskatoons, also known as western serviceberries are apple-like fruits (or “pomes” in botanical terms) that look very similar to salal berries and are one of my...
Paurotis Palm: A Florida Native!
My favorite palm! The paurotis palm is a wonderfully beautiful palm that I have a personal connection to. As I was starting to build my photography business back when I was still living back home in Southwest Florida, I worked in a plant nursery and planted many...
Oregon’s Cannon Beach and an Incredible Sky and Sunset!
Timing is everything! This is just a quick post showing just how fast the sky can change in 14 minutes! I was at Cannon Beach in Oregon photographing one of the world's biggest sea stacks on the most amazing coastline in the world at the perfect moment of low tide,...
Marbled Godwits in Los Angeles!
Large for a sandpiper, and of the four species of godwits in the world, marbled godwits are the biggest. This beautiful cinnamon-mottled shorebird breeds in the central North America's Great Plains (Alberta, the Dakotas, Montana, Minnesota and Nebraska) and travels to...