2019 year in review
Photoshop and other editing tools can do amazing things, but truly great landscape images can’t be made on a budget of limited time. 2019 was spectacularly busy at my house leaving me a paucity of...
View ArticleProtecting the greater Chaco landscape
**Update: the public comment period has been extended an additional 120 days to September 25, 2020. This will give those with limited internet access due to COVID-19 time to comment. Still, submit...
View ArticleDonating to Navajo-Hopi COVID-19 relief
In mid-April, Jackson Frishman and I launched a print sale in an effort to support the Navajo and Hopi tribes during the COVID-19 pandemic. We each offered a selection of prints for sale, with the net...
View ArticleOn Landscape interview
Earlier this year, Michéla Griffith from On Landscape magazine reached out to me for an interview. If you’re not familiar, On Landscape is a UK-based landscape photography magazine founded by Tim and...
View ArticleSmall Acts
“There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it’s not really there.” – Bill McKibben The World on Fire As I write this blog post, I’m watching the West burn. Not...
View Article2020 Year in Review
This 2020 retrospective marks my eleventh year of image reviews. Since I began doing these in 2010, I–like many of you–have experiences highs and lows in creativity and image making. Some years have...
View ArticleRemembering grizzly bears
Grizzly bears have been on my mind lately. The mammal that graces California’s state flag was been extirpated from the state almost 120 years ago. However, its legacy remains ubiquitous. Today, we...
View ArticleThe fight to save California’s deserts
“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland **UPDATE: This plan has officially been scrapped by the Biden administration....
View ArticleQuarantine year in review
“We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the...
View Article(Re)discovery – A 2021 year in review
Writing this, I can hardly believe 2021 is behind us. It sounds cliché, but it feels like just yesterday I was taking a look back at 2020, and yet here I am writing a 2021 retrospective. While this...
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