Tonight at the BRILL Gallery in downtown Phoenix, the Monsoon Show opens! Proud to say that I’ll have two photos on display. I’ll be there for both opening nights (tonight and tomorrow night) and the closing night on October 18th.

Hate, deceit, and violence seem to rearing their ugly faces more than ever. The world needs our art more than ever. #PhotographersUnited

This crested caracara distracted me from my storm chasing mission last week as it stood atop this saguaro scanning the desert floor for prey. #Arizona #WildlifePhotography

Hey friends, I’m stoked to announce that I’ll have two photography pieces on display in the Monsoon Show at Phoenix’s BRILL Gallery later this month! I’m not telling which photos though, it’s a surprise. If you’d like to attend the opening or closing nights, be sure to RSVP, link in comments!

The outflow that spawned thunderstorm after thunderstorm damn near to Wickenburg tonight. #azwx #monsoon2025

Last night’s fiery sunset over the Dome Rock Mountains near Quartzite, Arizona.

I can’t even believe I got this photo. I wasn’t supposed to chase that day. I ran out to the edge of the desert at the last minute. I happened across this scene, but this cell wasn’t producing much lightning. Still, I set up the cameras & waited. Finally, it let loose this beastly double bolt. #azwx

This is the most unique angle I got of Monday’s haboob, taken from Highway 347 near Maricopa, Arizona. #azwx #monsoon2025 #stormchasing

Monday’s ominous haboob rolling through Casa Grande, Arizona. Photos do not do justice to how massive it was, but I try. #azwx #monsoon2025 #stormchasing

A color and a black & white of the little haboob yesterday evening near Florence, Arizona. Spent most of the time driving through the dust instead of photographing it 😂 #azwx #arizonamonsoon #monsoon2025

God Rays 🙌🏼 lighting up the horizon over Munds Mountain and Lee Mountain on August 15th. #azwx #landscapephotography

Happy #WorldPhotographyDay! In celebration, a few lightning photos I made the other day. #azwx #stormchasing

Ermahgerd, it’s Monochrome Monday! #ClassicMonochrome

My favorite bolts from last night, taken on the north side of Peoria. I don’t love the foregrounds on the first 2 but I was under the edge of another storm behind me & had to shoot from in the car. The second 2 came after hiking to the top of a butte once the storms were a safe distance away. #azwx

Sunset bolts last night near Red Rock, Arizona. Stoked that I finally got some good lightning! My friends Tina & Kevin kindly let me tag along on their chase. #azwx #stormchasing #arizonamonsoon

Black & White vs Color

The Walker Fire burning on the Santa Rita Mountains last night, viewed from Empire Ranch near Sonoita, Arizona. #azwx #wildfires

Cataract Falls, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. #Waterfalls #NationalParks

Young elk, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. #WildlifePhotography #NationalParks

Ferns, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. #PhotographersUnited #NationalsPark

Highway 441, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. #PhotographersUnited #NationalParks

Kuwohi Trail, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. #PhotographersUnited #NationalParks

What a bunch of vegan hippies. So typical of the National Park crowd. #PhotographersUnited #NationalParks

Newfound Gap, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. #PhotographersUnited #NationalParks

The smallest hiker on the Kuwohi Trail. #PhotographersUnited #MacroPhotography

Mingus Mill, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. #PhotographersUnited #NationalParks

The Great Smoky Mountains looking “smoky”. #PhotographersUnited #NationalParks

I spent just a bit of time at the magical Shunkawauken Falls. This is my favorite image I made there. #PhotographersUnited #Waterfalls

Cabin nights. #PhotographersUnited #Astrophotography

This is my first blue hour / Milky Way composite. I set up the tripod at the scene I wanted, took one exposure for the landscape after sunset at about 8pm, and then another for the sky at about 10pm. I blended the two images in Photoshop, and darkened the landscape to feel more nightish. 1/2

Wide view of the July 13th haboob rolling over the Whetstone Mountains in Southeastern Arizona. #azwx

A “gustnado” type dust devil on the leading edge of the haboob that blew through Benson, Arizona yesterday afternoon. #azwx

Fuck. The lodge at the Grand Canyon North Rim was lost to a wildfire.

Have I ever said that this is my favorite mountain?

Night lights at Walnut Canyon Bridge, part II

Night lights at the historic Walnut Canyon Bridge in Winona, Arizona.

My first lightning bolt of 2025. Squint and you might see it. #azwx

Check out the latest episode of The Nerdy Photographer Podcast where @jakecasephoto.bsky.social and I talk preservation, gatekeeping, and mental wellness lnk.to/preservation #naturephototgraphy #landscapephotography #podcast #PhotographersUnited #mentalhealth #photography

Ready for the Milky Way to appear 🤙🏼 #PhotographersUnited

Casey graciously had me on The Nerdy Photographer Podcast! I’d be honored if you gave it a listen. #PhotographersUnited lnk.to/preservation

NO KINGS

A flower because it is Friday! I found this Rocky Mountain Iris in the Coconino National Forest last weekend. #PhotographersUnited #FlowerFriday

I love this mountain 🥹

A waterfall because it’s Wednesday! I haven’t legitimately photograph a waterfall in a LONG time, I need to rectify that. #PhotographersUnited #WaterfallWednesday

I set up this timelapse just to document the sunset, then was stunned to see a sunset-lit virga moving over The Peaks. Virga is the term for a rain shaft that evaporates before reaching the ground. The little dots in the sky are from a swarm of tiny insects hanging around. #azwx

I sure love photographing prickly pear cacti. But it’s all fun and games until you get a hand full of glochids 😭 #PhotographersUnited

Current photo of the Basin Fire burning northeast of Kendrick Peak. Sparked by a lightning strike on June 9, the fire is now being managed to clean out 9,000 acres of forest as a prescribed burn. #azwx

Climate Prediction Center is calling for a major shift in the weather pattern for AZ. The precip outlook for the next month has us 60-70% above climate norms. Could be looking at an early kickoff to monsoon season with some deep tropical moisture before July hits. #azwx

Monochrome because it is Monday. #PhotographersUnited #ClassicMonochrome

Sometimes you can’t see the path ahead but you must continue forward. Comparing life to the beauty of this slot canyon is pretty unfair though.