Sunrise from the rim of Reflection Canyon after an overnight hike off Hole-in-the-Rock Road near Escalante, Utah.
Sunrise from the south rim of the Grand Canyon in February, when the storm clouds show up and the whole sky lights.
Turret Arch in the Windows section of Arches National Park, shot into the setting sun and converted to black and white.
A steel arch bridge over the Colorado River in a remote stretch of southern Utah, shot in black and white as a storm rolled through.
A sunset panorama from Green River Overlook in Canyonlands National Park, and making peace with the sky you're given after years of returning.
The alien eggs at Bisti Badlands, a mile and a half out into BLM land in the middle of Navajo country south of Farmington, New Mexico.
Foto Friday: Tsé Bitʼaʼí, the Navajo 'rock with wings,' at dawn outside Shiprock, New Mexico.
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.
A February rainstorm, a field near Ridgway, and two photographers waiting for light that almost never came. Chimney Rock, Colorado.
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