Tag: Landscape Photography
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Autumn’s Arrival: Beachfront September Sunset
This sunset image was taken two weeks ago from a south shore beach as cooler and wetter weather made it’s way into the Lake Tahoe basin. We are now back in a warm and dry September pattern, but the rain was nice while it lasted and this sunset did not disappoint. Lake Tahoe Basin. September…
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Tahoe Quarterly: Through the Lens
Through the lens feature in the Fall 2024 issue of Tahoe Quarterly. “IN NATURE, art is infinite, from its most obvious forms—Lake Tahoe’s shimmering blue surface, for example—to its most unlikely sources. Like dead trees. Whether gnarled from the elements, blackened by wildfire or waterlogged on a rocky shoreline, the wood of any given dead…
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Winter Clouds Gather During Golden Hour as a Storm Approaches
Three image panorama taken last winter, prior to a storm system moving into the Lake Tahoe basin. This image was was made possible by standing on a public pier along the west shore. Lake Tahoe Basin. February 2024.
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Unseasonably Cool Weather Moves through the Sierra Nevada Mountains
It’s still August, but it felt more like late October this past weekend as an unseasonably cool weather system moved through the Sierra Nevada mountains. I took this image at about 8,000 ft during a hike just south of the Lake Tahoe basin. While we didn’t experience any snow on this hike (only rain), temperatures…
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Golden Hour View in the Central Nevada Desert
The Nevada desert is a special environment to find yourself in this time of day, as shadows move across a vast landscape, temperatures drop rapidly, the vegetation glows in the low angle sun, and great contrast can be seen in the topography. This was a great road trip where we were able to soak in…
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After the Rains: Feeding the Wallowa
Many of the images taken during river trips are of dramatic scenes that come and go quickly, usually because the light is changing fast or because I am shooting from the raft as we float downstream. Then, there are moments like this, where I have plenty of time to study what I am shooting, experiment…
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Wild and Scenic 2 Minute Meditation: Along the Wallowa and Grande Ronde
Wild and scenic sights and sounds from a multi day river trip on the Wallowa and Grande Ronde River in northeastern Oregon. Clips at 20 sec intervals. Film in 4K with the Sony A7RIV.
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Wallowa and Grande Ronde River — Minam, OR to Boggan’s Oasis, WA
Another wild and scenic Oregon river in the books. 68 miles on the Wallowa and Grande Ronde. We couldn’t get the band back together from last year and I’ll miss the August trip they have planned, but you’ve gotta go when you have a chance and when the flows are good. The first image is…
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Summit View, Clouds Rolling In
Black and white summit view late in the day with the next set of clouds rolling in and another storm on the way. It truly feels like spring now, but winter stuck around in the Sierra into spring. “Miracle March” was exactly what our snowpack needed and it provided some great riding/skiing conditions throughout the…
