Every winter I anticipate the upcoming Spring and the arrival of wildflowers. This year, I was on high alert due to the amount and timing of the Fall & Winter rains in California, which hinted at excellent upcoming blooms down there. Then in late February reports started appearing of excellent blooms emerging in Death Valley. […]
Fall SW Trip
I spent the first 3 weeks of November once again exploring the Southwest. The trip’s loose goal was to shoot autumn Cottonwood tree foliage in the Zion and Canyon de Chelly canyons. But the trip was also scheduled around a “Painted Desert” drone photography workshop in mid-November. I had no previous experience with either Cottonwood […]
Eastern Sierra, Death Valley & Arizona Trip
During February & March I took a 3+ week trip in the Starr van to the southwest U.S. The trip’s impetus was a 5 day Marc Adamus photography workshop to California’s Eastern Sierra & Death Valley that I signed up for last Spring. I had attended this same workshop in 2013 and later visited the […]
Owens Valley, Death Valley, Valley of Fire, & White Pocket
I am finally getting around to posting images from a productive two week March photography outing with Bend friend, Andy. The impetus for trip was a 5 day photography workshop in eastern California, lead by Erin Babnik and Ted Gore. I have long admired both Erin and Ted’s work, and last year I enjoyed an […]
Photography Trip to California’s Eastern Sierras & Death Valley
In late February, I spent a week on the eastern side of the Sierras and in Death Valley. The core of the trip was a five day workshop long scheduled with Marc Adamus. I took another workshop with Marc two years ago on the Olympic Peninsula and Columbia River Gorge. At that time, I found […]