Stories From the Field

Here you can find a collection of stories and trip reports from my nature and landscape photography adventures, ranging from my annual fall color photography trips in Colorado to adventures in Utah, including Canyonlands National Park.

Antarctica, Falkland Islands, and the Weddell Sea - 2023

This expansive collection of color and black & white photographs are from my three-week expedition as an instructor for Muench Workshops in 2023. On this trip, my first responsibility was to ensure our workshop attendees had a wonderful time...

Colorado Autumn & Fall Colors - 2023

As is tradition since 2016, I embarked on my annual photography trip to capture the magic of autumn and fall in Colorado. This year, I was forced to break my trip into parts due to some work obligations teaching for Muench Workshops, which actually offered me a way to see Colorado fall color in two distinct phases of transition...

Asturias Spain

Asturias, Spain is one of the most amazing places in Europe for landscape and nature photography. It is comprised of rugged coastline featuring Flysch formations of sedimentary rock that are both bewildering and fascinating from a visual and photographic perspective...

Durango Colorado Winter Nature Photography
January 17, 2023  |  Durango, Colorado

Durango, Colorado is an amazing place to live as a nature photographer. I have access to some of the most incredible mountains in the world just minutes away (the San Juan Mountains), access to incredible desert scenery in Utah and Arizona, and in the winter, we get a healthy amount of snow, which provides an excellent subject for photography...

The Best Photographs of 2022
December 21, 2022  |  Durango, Colorado

It has become an incredibly fun yet challenging tradition to look back on my photography for the year to identify what I think are my best or favorite photographs of the year. This year will be especially difficult since I was probably more prolific this year than any year of my lifetime as a photographer...

Colorado Autumn And Fall Colors - 2022

My favorite subject to photograph is Colorado mountains in autumn and fall. There is something magical about the experiences that I have had while exploring Colorado when the golden yellow aspen trees begin to turn and snow kisses the mountain tops of my favorite 14ers...

Fine Art Utah Photography in Spring

Utah is one of my favorite locations to make photographs. It has everything a landscape photographer could ever wish for, ranging from mountains, deserts, sandstone cliffs, canyons, and more. In 2022, I spent twelve days wandering the state, seeking out locations and compositions that were new to me, including scenes from around Hanksville, Escalante, and more...

A Passion for Colorado Mountain Photography
Colorado Mountains

It is not very hard to see how someone could enjoy making photographs of the beautiful mountains of Colorado. With 53 mountains rising above 14,000 feet in elevation and 584 additional peaks rising above 13,000 feet, Colorado is an absolute mountain treasure-trove with photographic opportunities in all directions...

Colorado Autumn and Fall Colors - 2021
High Quality Wall Art from Colorado in Autumn

Nearly every year since I started as a photographer, I have embarked on a multi-day journey to photograph one of my favorite subjects here in Colorado - autumn and fall colors...

My Favorite Colorado Fall Photographs - 2020
October 25, 2020  |  Colorado

Nearly every year for the past nine years, I have embarked on a multi-day journey to photograph one of my favorite subjects here in Colorado - autumn and fall colors. Each trip holds a special place in my memory...

Colorado Autumn and Fall Colors - 2020
Fine Art Photography | Colorado Fall Color

Nearly every year since I started as a photographer, I have embarked on a multi-day journey to photograph one of my favorite subjects here in Colorado - autumn and fall colors...

American Southwest Fine Art Photography
March 22, 2020  |  Grand Canyon National Park

Right before the start of the Covid-19 outbreak, I made plans to go on a week-long landscape photography trip to Arizona with my friends Kane Engelbert and Shane McDermott. We had grandeur plans of spending time in Grand Canyon National Park and other secluded locations in the desert southwest...

Yosemite National Park Fine Art Prints
February 29, 2020  |  Yosemite National Park

I recently returned from teaching at the Out of Yosemite conference through the great group Out of Chicago. This was the very first time I have had the opportunity to photography in Yosemite National Park and it was a really great experience...

Canyonlands National Park Fine Art Photography
January 28, 2020  |  Canyonlands National Park

It is a bit silly to think that I have been seriously engaged in landscape photography for over a decade and up until this month I had never been to Canyonlands National Park in Utah, which is a short 3...

My Favorite Photos of the decade - 2010 - 2019
December 31, 2019

In the spirit of showcasing my best photos of 2019, I thought it might be fun to look back on a decade of my photography (I got serious about photography in 2010, so the timing is perfect) to show you my favorite photo from each year I have been a photographer...

Colorado Autumn Photography Trip - 2019
October 29, 2019  |  Colorado

Nearly every year for the past eight years, I have embarked on a multi-day journey to photograph one of my favorite subjects here in Colorado - autumn and fall colors. Each trip holds a special place in my memory...

Colorado Autumn and Fall Colors - 2019
Unique Nature Photography Prints | Colorado Fall

Nearly every year since I started as a photographer, I have embarked on a multi-day journey to photograph one of my favorite subjects here in Colorado - autumn and fall colors...

Colorado Autumn and Fall Colors - 2018
San Juan Mountains Fall Colors | Fine Art Prints

Nearly every year as a photographer I have embarked on a multi-day journey to photograph one of my favorite subjects here in Colorado - autumn and fall colors...

Autumn & Fall Grand Landscape Fine Art
Nearly every year since I started as a photographer, I have embarked on a multi-day journey to photograph one of my favorite subjects in Colorado - autumn and fall colors. Each trip holds a special place in my memory...