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This blog offers a window into our journey as we chase light, wanders through wild landscapes, and find meaning in the quiet moments we encounter. Join us for stories from our travels, lessons learned in the field, and the small joys that come with a life spent outdoors. Some posts explore the practical side of photography while others focus on the wonder of seeing the world through a lens. Whether you’re a fellow photographer or simply enjoy a good story, we invite you to join behind the scenes and along the road.

Random Road Trip Discoveries

  When driving between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, you may notice three incredibly bright towers on the north side of the highway. These gigantic contraptions are known as Concentrated Solar Power or CSP. By directing immense amounts of light off of mirrors to a single source, heat energy is generated and then creates steam to power turbines. At this time though, the future of CSP is in danger. There are large arrays in Spain, the Middle East and still a couple more planned for production, but the average plant is either loosing money or producing far under the expected outputs. With the price of photo voltaic cells (standard solar panels) coming down, the cost per mega watt isn’t really panning out. Regardless of their future viability as an energy production means, they still make for some great photographic subject matter!

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Night in Death Valley – A Reflection

Last week I wrapped up my annual Death Valley workshop. Even though this workshop mostly deals with night photography, we do still get out for a bit during the daylight. This year we were lucky enough to have the workshop fall on the tail end of one of the largest super blooms in a century at Death Valley. Despite being one of the driest places on the planet, when rains come through at the right time in the late winter it can trigger dormant wildflower seeds to start to germinate. Regardless of the year, you can almost always find a random wildflower on the valley floor during spring. This year the whole floor was carpeted with blooms. Whether the park is carpeted in flowers or not, Death Valley is still one of my favorite national parks. I have been traveling there for 7 years now in the spring and still

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Coffee Cup

A Coffee By Any Other Name…

As a resident of the beautiful Pacific Northwest, and namely Seattle, it is mandatory to keep a blood/coffee level over .08%. For my chosen career path I end up on the road quite often, and when traveling the highways and byways of this vast country it never ceases to amaze me how culturally different we are from one corner to another. When it comes to something like coffee, a beverage that is loved, shared and coveted all over the world, this is no less the case. My normal morning brew is a 12oz drip coffee with a shot of espresso poured in it. Add a couple raw sugars and some cream and you have a happy traveler! Where I live if you take out my additives this drink is known as a Shot in the Dark. Seems logical to me and still like an appealing beverage. As you venture more

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Milk Way over Canyonlands National Park

Long Time No See!

It’s been almost a year since I’ve written anything on here, and I apologize to anyone that was following regularly. A lot has been going on behind the scenes over here as the recent change of Facebook and Instagram names may have hinted. Soon I’ll be able to let you in on a few of the projects I’ve been working on. During my hiatus from writing here I’ve been lucky enough to roam a few regions in Mexico, along with driving through 20 states and visiting 15 national parks. The image above was taken in Arches National Park during an annual workshop that I lead in the Moab, UT area. As many people that know me have probably assumed, I love to use the light of the moon or the stars to often illuminate my landscape images. Even when I was younger I was quite a bit of a night

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Dalhi Lama during a press conference. Taken during 50th anniversary of his exile.

Story Behind the Shot: The Dalai Lama’s 50th Anniversary of Exhile from Tibet

This is a very special Story Behind the Shot for me. I have a knack when I’m traveling of finding myself in unique or fantastic situations, and this one may top them all for me. Six years ago I spent a little over three months roaming around Nepal and India. Towards the end of my trip I was planning on heading into the Himalayas to Dharamsala, the town in which the Dalai Lama lives. I read he would be leading a teaching during my visit, and was excited to be there to see him speak at his home. I just finished riding camels around the desert along the boarder of Pakistan and India for a few days and was looking forward to getting out of the 110 degree (44c) heat and into the mountains (my natural habitat). I ended up going to Dharamsala a few days before I originally planned

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The Story Behind the Shot: Pumas in Patagonia

Anyone that knows me or my photography knows I love photographing animals in the wild. All of the wildlife images on my website have been captured in the wild and that is something very important to me. Part of it is capturing the actual image, but seeing how animals act in there natural environment is an experience I relish. I have been lucky enough to have traveled all over this great big world, and have seen quite a variety of fauna. Until a few weeks ago, pumas (cougars) were high on the list of animals I wanted to encounter and photograph. I just returned from Chile scouting locations to take a photo workshop in 2016. A little more than half of the trip will take place in Torres del Paine in southern Chile. This park is quintessential Patagonia. Windswept landscapes, rugged mountains and a host of wildlife you won’t see

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