Now that 2018 has come to an end — Happy New Year! — it’s time to look back over my last year and see how I did as an artist and post my favorite photos of 2018. Looking back at my 2017 favorite photos and update seems interesting to me this year. I accomplished much…

Nebraska. Flat. Plains. Farms. Fences. And then you get to the western side and seemingly out of nowhere — because it is out of nowhere and nothing — eroded buttes and features arise from the grasses. The Oregon Trail ran through this area and the prominent features are the Courthouse and Jail Rock, Chimney Rock…

In the middle of October, I taught a photography workshop in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. After the workshop was over, I drove up the Blue Ridge Parkway with the goal of making it to Marby Mill in Virginia. I hadn’t been to Marby, yet, and wanted to see it. My first stop was…

Glacier National Park, established as a national park in 1910, is considered Crown of the Continent. Early in the park’s history, the Great Northern Railway tried to brand Glacier as the Little Switzerland of the United States. They constructed lodges and remote mountain chalets throughout the park. The Going-to-the-Sun Road, completed in 1932, is one of…

Sign the petition: https://chn.ge/2vRshPp The Fall River enters Lake Superior a few miles west of town (heading south on Highway 61). There used to be a rest area and parking lot at the location, but it was removed years ago. Before the river enters the big lake it plunges over a 25-foot waterfall. There’s a pool…

The research vessel Kiyi comes to Grand Marais only a few times a year. It usually stays one day before it ships back out onto the big lake. On this visit, the sky had interesting clouds and the crisp, early-spring air kept the haze from forming over Lake Superior like it does as the temps…

The Found Bike Project began on May 16, 2016. I found an old-but-well-maintained bike on the North House Folk School campus and photographed it with a 35mm f/1.4 lens. After posting it on the Internet, those that saw it encouraged me to take more pictures of found bikes. The project was born. I estimated it…

If I had to pick one national park as a favorite, I’d pick the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. There wouldn’t be any hesitation or delay in my answer. It is by far my favorite park. If I had to pick one season, I’d pick Fall in the Smoky Mountains (or spring). I really couldn’t pick…

We all have to learn somewhere and somehow and this summer I’ve been learning how to shoot in infrared. I was gifted a Sony A7II camera with a super color conversion from LifePixels. This conversion converted the camera to shoot multi-color infrared images. While interesting, I’ve found that I don’t care to the multi-color infrared…