A rainbow drops through storm light over Point Imperial on the Grand Canyon's North Rim, from one of my first trips to the canyon in 2019.
At Park Avenue in Arches National Park, everyone was shooting the canyon walls. The photo I kept was behind me: a thin sliver of moon, converted to black and white.
A 2019 sunset from the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, and the atmospheric haze that gives the canyon its depth.
My first photography workshop, my first trip to Grand Canyon, and a sunrise that taught me what seven years of craft looks like in reverse.
Sunset over the Grand Canyon from my first photography workshop, 2019. Went out solo the night before the conference and the sky put on a show.
Long exposure at Arches National Park as the park empties out at sunset — car light trails, stars coming in, and the canyon going quiet.
Corona Arch sits just outside Moab's national parks — a mile-and-a-half hike through slickrock, a ladder bolted to the canyon wall, and a smoky evening that turned into a better shot than planned.
Factory Butte from the opposite side — a strenuous hike to a vantage point nobody uses, red sandstone foreground, and the last pink light of the evening.
A lone tree at Crater Lake National Park, converted to black and white after wildfire smoke killed the sunset — and the lesson about being too locked in on one plan.
Factory Butte near Hanksville, Utah, framed through a tiny natural rock window at sunrise — a composition most people walk right past.
A sunrise that didn't deliver much sky color led to 30 minutes of wandering the Moonscape Overlook near Hanksville, Utah — and a photo I keep coming back to.
Like what you're reading?
Get new issues delivered to your inbox. One idea per issue, no spam.