"Tempestuous" is the sixth photo in my #PaintingWithLight series, which won an Honorable Mention in the Landscape Category at the 2025 @monovisions Photo awards, and is the photo for today. To see all of the images, go to my story, or go to the website: monovisionsawards.com/winners-gall...

"Mobius Arch and Moon" is the fifth photo in my #PaintingWithLight series, which won an Honorable Mention in the Landscape Category at the 2025 @monovisions Photo awards, and is the photo for today. To see all of the images, go to the website: monovisionsawards.com/winners-gall...

My fourth photo “Lone Tree” in my #PaintingWithLight series, which won an Honorable Mention in the Landscape Category at the 2025 @monovisions Photo awards, is the photo for today. To see all of the images, go to my story, or go to the website: monovisionsawards.com/winners-gall...

I am honored to say that my series, #PaintingWithLight (third photo, “Timeless”), won an Honorable Mention at the 2025 @monovisions Photography Awards - Landscape Category. "Timeless" - The moon setting behind Lone Pine Peak & Tumanguya (Mt. Whitney) at the Alabama Hills on the Eastern Sierra.

“Peaceful Serenity” is my second photo in my #PaintingWithLight series that just won an Honorable Mention in the Landscape category at the 2025 @Monovisions Photography Awards. It is such an honor. monovisionsawards.com/winners-gall... Photo info in comment ⬇️

I am so excited and honored to announce that my black and white photo series "Painting with Light" has won an Honorary Mention at the 2025 @monovisions Photography Awards in the Landscape Category. “Pristine” is the first photo in the series of 8, which I will show over the next week. Link ⬇️

Did you know that July is #ParkAndRecreationMonth? And this year marks their 40th anniversary! This year's theme is #BuildTogetherPlayTogether. How can we build stronger communities through our parks? How can we make people of all backgrounds feel more welcome and inclusive? Photo info ⬇️

I am so grateful for everyone who voted for my series #Otherworldly in the reFocus B&W Photo Awards in their Professional Landscape Division. I didn't win the #PeoplesVoteAward - but I did win the Judge's SILVER medal, which is an exceptional honor! I'm very grateful!

Tomorrow is the last day to vote for my #Otherworldly series in the @refocus.awards #PeoplesVoteAward in the Black and White Professional Landscape Category. These are the last three photos in my series. refocus-awards.com/people-vote-.... Thank you to all who have been voting for me!

Today, I am sharing my second photo in my series #Otherworldly in the @refocus.awards #BlackAndWhite #PeoplesVoteAwards in their Professional Landscape Category. Please vote for me!!!!! The link is refocus-awards.com/people-vote-... Photo info in comment ⬇️

I am honored & excited to share that my black and white series "Otherworldly" has been nominated for the #PeoplesVoteAward in the reFocus Awards #BlackAndWhite Professional Landscape Category. I would love it if you all would support & vote for me here: refocus-awards.com/people-vote-... Thank you!

It’s been 6 months today since my beloved dog Bart passed. I will always miss him. Grateful for the 9.5 years I had him in my life.

My 3rd photo in the #NaturalistGalleryLandscapeCollection is "Kissed by Snow" - A light dusting on the foothill section of the #EasternSierra just above the #Buttermilks, CA. Nüümü Witü, Newe Sogobia, & Nüümü Ancestral Homeland. Nov 2022. See collection here: naturalist.gallery/collections/...

My second photo in the #NaturalistGalleryLandscapeCollection - naturalist.gallery/collections/.... Photo: "Peering at Squaretop" - Looking out the door of an old cabin at #GreenRiverLakes at #SquaretopMt., #WindRiverRange, WY. Shoshone & Arapaho Ancestral Homeland. July 2019.

, I am honored to announce that 5 of my photographs are in the #NaturalistGalleryLandscapeCollection, & I will be showcasing them individually over the next 5 days, starting with Vallée de Yosemite. To see the entire collection, please visit naturalist.gallery/collections/.... Photo info ⬇️

7 years ago today, I embarked on this incredible journey of my photography business. The story behind the photo where I realized this is what I wanted to do for a living: I noticed the moon setting over Winuba (Mt. Tom) during sunrise the day before. So the following day, (continued below)

"In this world there is room for everyone, & the good earth is rich & can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed." - Charlie Chaplin.

"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence." — Ansel Adams. Happy belated Art Day! Do you have a favorite artist? I have too many favorites to choose just one! Photo: "Timeless" - 3rd photo in my award winning serie

Happy Pi Mai Lao or Songkran (#LaoNewYear)!!!! I am using my second photo ("Peaceful Serenity) in my "Painting with Light" photo series that just won the Bronze Medal at the 11th Annual Fine Art Photo Awards (@fineartphotoawards) in their Professional Panoramic section to celebrate today.

I am so excited and honored to announce that my "Painting with Light" series just won the Bronze Award (Third Place) in the Professional Category at the 11th Annual Fine Art Photography Awards (@fineartphotoawards)!!!! So, for the next 5 days, I will share each photo in the awarded series.

“Without education, wisdom was lost; without wisdom, morals were lost; without morals, development was lost; without development, wealth was lost; without wealth, the Shudras were ruined; so much has happened through lack of education.” — Jyotirao Phule. Photo: "Little Lakes Valley Panorama" - ⬇️

"Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted, picked, or harvested by a farm worker. Why is it that the people who do the most sacred work in our nation are the most oppressed, the most exploited?" — Dolores Huerta.

"We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness." — Booker T. Washington. Photo: "Snowy Range" - The beautiful #SnowyRange in #wyoming lived up to its name in June 2019 as a thunderstorm moved in. I enjoyed being up at this beautiful place. #cloudscapes

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away." ― Maya Angelou. Photo: "Stormy Oregon Coast Panorama" - An impressive storm over #OswaldWestStatePark & #CapeFalconMarineReserve from #NehalemBayStatePark along the #OregonCoast. Oct 2021.

“She did not stand alone, but what stood behind her, the most potent moral force in her life, was the love of her father.” — Harper Lee. My dad passed away one month before his birthday, April 3. He would have been turning 74 today. He taught me so much. Continued ⬇️

"Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own - (continued ⬇️)― Wangarĩ Maathai.

“I dream my painting, and I paint my dream.” ― Vincent Van Gogh. Photo: “Golden Leaves” - Autumn was in full force near Bishop, CA, when I was there for my birthday weekend in November 2022, which always makes me happy. I saw this beautiful tree glistening in the sun right before sunset. #Stunday

"What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork." — Pearl Bailey. Photo: “Abraza a tus seres queridos” April 2020, CA, #nikond850, #tamron90macro, Yokut Ancestral Homeland. #NikonNoFilter #TamronAmericas. #MacroPhotography #FlowerPhotography #FlowerPower #Raw_Flowers #Splendid_Flowers

“Certain forms float up in my mind’s eye. Aromas, a blowing breeze, A rain drenched gust of wind, The air in motion, My heart in motion. I try to capture these vague, Evanescent images of the instant And put them into vivid form.” — Toko Shinoda. Photo: "Evanescent" - photo info in comment ⬇️

“I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches, and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.” — Edward Steichen. Photo: "Spanish Moss" - #SpanishMoss growing in a beautiful tree at #JugHandleSP CA.

"We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace."-- William Ellery Channing. Photo: "Stillness" - A beaver pond in Lundy Canyon, Eastern Sierra (Pamidü Toiyabe), CA. Kootzaduka'a, Me-Wuk, & Nüümü Ancestral Homeland.

“The woman wanderer goes forth to seek the Land of Freedom. ‘How am I to get there?’ Reason answers: ‘Here is one way, and one only. Down the banks of Labour, though the water of suffering. There is no other.’ — Olive Schreiner quote and photo info continued ⬇️

"No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and they would put an end to it." ― Akira Kurosawa. Photo info ⬇️

"If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society..." - Bayard Rustin quote continued ⬇️

“The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.” — Lillian Wald. Photo: "Sand Heart" - A heart drawn in the sand out at #FortStevensStatePark while a couple was walking on the beach on a cloudy day. Oct 2021.

“The color has faded out of the sky. It is grey, becoming darker as the world turns herself round a little more. The clouds are long and black and ragged, like the wings of stormbattered dragons.” — Keri Hulme. Photo: "Stormbattered Dragons" - Ominous clouds over the #EasternSierra in July 2018.

Happy International Women’s Day everyone! Here is a photo I took back in July 2019 of the awesome Emilie Pellerin in Ten Sleep, Wyoming on a hard route (5.13d/8b) showcasing how fierce women are!

“If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.” — Shane Koyczan. My dad passed away from very recently diagnosed Multiple Myeloma on March 3. If you or anyone you know has anemia, high calcium in their blood tests, intense bone pain, please go see your doctor! Photo: “Moody Elk Lake”

Happy #WorldWildlifeDay! Do you have a favorite wild animal? #bluesky_wildlife #protectourplanet

Happy #QuietDay!!! Today is a day to focus on finding quiet time. "Quiet Sunset" - A wonderful sunset at the #GrayLodgeWildlifeRefuge looking south towards the #SutterButtes. Maidu & Wintun Ancestral Homeland. Sutter Buttes' name in Maidu is "Esto Yamani" & in Wintun is "Onolai-tol."

“A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers.” — #Zitkála-Šá. Photo: #Ranunculus - April 2020.

"Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America" -- #JohnLewis. Photo: #GoodTrouble - #ZabriskiePoint always has intricate and amazing textures and shapes in the rock formations and landscape, so my eyes never get bored. #DeathValley. February 2024.

“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.” — Ansel Adams. Happy birthday to the great Ansel Adams! One of my photography heroes! Photos: A grouping of some of my photographs I took in #YosemiteNationalPark back in May 2023. #bw_landscapes #SaveOurParks

“I sure did live in this world.’ ‘Really? What have you got to show for it?’ ‘Show? To who? I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me.’ ‘Lonely, ain’t it?’ ‘Yes. But my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else’s. Made by somebody else and handed to you.” ―Toni Morrison

“if the ocean can calm itself, so can you. we are both salt water mixed with air.” ― Nayyirah Waheed. Today is #WorldHumanSpiritDay, and it’s all about #meditation and how meditation can heal - physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Photo: “Blue Ocean” - #MacKerricherStatePark

Happy #ValentinesDay everyone! And also #HappySinglesAwarenessDay! Photo: “Red El Capitan/Tutocanula” - Feb 2021. It was very cool to see a red El Cap from the #FireFalls from a different angle, even if the falls weren’t showing off much of a show. #YosemiteNationalPark

“To quench my longing, I bent me low By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow In that magical wood in the land of sleep.” – Sarojini Naidu, Song of A Dream. Happy #WomensDay in India - to commemorate the birthday of the great Sarojini Naidu. Photo: “Magical Woods” - Hyalite creek, MT.

“It’s not about you, or me, but it’s about what we can give to this world.” — Olivia Hooker. Photo: "Last Light" -- One of my favorite places - taken on the road to the #Buttermilks, looking at #MtHumphreys (on the right) with the surrounding #PamiduToiyabe #EasternSierra mountains. November 2022.

Today is #InternationalEpilepsyDay, and my beloved dog Bart suffered from Epilepsy for ~4.5 years until he finally passed last November from complications from his seizures the day before. Several of my amazing friends have Epilepsy as well, so this condition is near & dear to my heart.

“Fighting for what is right makes life worth living.” — Aletta Jacobs. Photos: "Fight for Your Right series" - The beautiful Heather Weidner (IG: @heatherlweidner) making the clean redpoint on “Chi Chi Get the Yayo” (5.14a), Crag 6, Ten Sleep, WY.