NATIONAL PARKS
Brahma Temple
Sitting front and center with cocktails in hand, my husband and I watched sunset illuminate the Brahma Temple at the Grand Canyon Lodge, delivering an awesome light show after a full day’s adventure.
Zoroaster Temple
Heaven and earth unite here. The Grand Canyon is everything that is good in the world, and generously shares its splendors, for all who dare to explore.
Bright Angel Point
Hiking to Bright Angel Point at the Grand Canyon’s north rim can test one’s resolve, but to those who can manage, Nature reveals its treasured surprise. Silent awe is the only response.
Cape Royal
The millennia it took the Colorado River to carve out this masterpiece boggles the mind. So it’s better just to gaze and marvel.
Cap Rock
Cap Rock is the perfect foreground for the best light show on the planet – which is actually off the planet – the Milky Way.
Swirling Stars
A crowd favorite, this time lapse traces the rotation of the starlight with the camera focused like a compass point on the north star. It’s really the earth that swirling- ok I’m dizzy now!
Red Dog Buzzed
Can you find the fly?
Buffalo at Dusk
As the sun gave way to the moon on Lake Yellowstone water’s edge, a lone buffalo grazed, silhouetted against Spring’s ice puzzle.
You Woke Me Up for This?
If my guide hadn’t pointed out the owls nesting, I might have walked right past this family camouflaged in their tree.
Grotto Geyser
Looking though the viewfinder to this capture was like stepping into the middle ages. And it probably looks exactly the same as it did back then. Whoa!!!
Lulu and Baby Belle
What tugs the heartstrings more than seeing a mommy adoring her baby? ‘nuf said.
Yellowstone Lake
Beneath this pristine setting, geysers and lava flows shape the lake floor with deep canyons and 11,000 year old spires.
The northern half of the lake is inside the 640,000-year- old Yellowstone Caldera, whereas the southern half of the lake lies outside the caldera and has been shaped by glacial and other processes.
In Town for the Holiday
Being this close to these massive and iconic buffalo almost made me genuflect. As it strolled past our nation’s flag, it reminded me of the relationship between the U.S. military and these creatures. The military massacred them almost to the point of extinction to rid the Native Americans of their sacred food source. Truly, a dark chapter of our history. But it’s better to use this capture to say something then it is to remain silent.
The Senate, Sequoia National Park
Giant sequoias are the largest trees in the world and a feast for the senses. They live up to 3400 years and their bark typically protects them from periodic fire. Now, with humans changing both the climate and the landscape surrounding the trees, these giants face dangers they might not survive. In 2020, the Castle Fire burned through the Sierra Nevada, fueled by hot, dry conditions and overgrown forests. Based on early estimates, as many as 10,600 sequoias were killed— up to 14% of the entire population.
Green Fluff Rock
King’s Canyon holds tiny grandeur throughout its details.
The Grand Teton
Tall and proud, the Tetons rise dramatically from the grasslands, cutting through blue skies and bright sunrises. Snowcapped in the winter and stark gray saddled with glaciers in summer, these granite masterpieces are home to all seeking serenity.
Oxbow Bend
An iconic spot where wildlife live and humankind pause. Mount Moran, is named for Thomas Moran, an American landscape artist. Jackson Lake is named for William Henry Jackson who was an American photographer, Civil War veteran, painter, and an explorer famous for his images of the American West.