Denali and summit cloud from near Eielson Visitor Center

A beautiful sunset on Trail Ridge Road

Changing aspens and red mountains at sunset, shot from Trout Lake, Colorado

Nokhu Crags, as seen from Iron Mountain

Maroon Bells through a window in the aspen trees.

Blowing snow colors the air around Hallet Peak on a January evening in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Mount Rainier and alpine avens (I think)

Little Tahoma, on the flanks of Mount Rainier. You can see this minor peak in the left side of the previous shot.

Yankee Boy Basin, Colorado. Magenta Paintbrush, Yellow Paintbrush, and Asters are the dominant flowers on this hillside. It's a pretty long walk to get here if you don't have a high clearance 4WD. I rented a Jeep!

The window of an old homestead, near Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado. The walls of this place were about a foot thick, to fight the cold (winter temperatures in the San Luis Valley regularly go to 30F below zero). Whoever lived here was really tough!

I liked this tree all by itself out in the field, with dusk's soft light on the Great Sand Dunes. I moved around a bit to set up a composition that emphasized the tree's isolation and, if I may personify it just a bit, bravery.

Denali, as seen from near Wonder Lake, Alaska.

I've only been to Denali National Park once (early August, 2009), and lucked out to have clear skies one morning! It was surprisingly cold for early August--the tea in my mug from the night before was totally frozen when I got up at our campsite. This shot was taken near the new visitor center, a few hours in on the park road. A tip if you go: get on the first bus! There's lots of wildlife activity early, and you can still have some morning light to work with if the mountain happens to make an appearance.

Blanca Peak, Colorado, winter 2008

Moonset, Colorado, summer 2007.

Golden Banner and a view of the Never Summer Range, shot along the west side of Trail Ridge Road, in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, summer 2007. The evergreen trees there don't look so good now (lots of beetle kill).

Independence Pass, Colorado

Wildflowers in the Snowy Range

A cloudy July afternoon at Clear Lake, near Silverton

Changing aspens and red mountains at sunset, shot from Trout Lake, Colorado

Nokhu Crags, as seen from Iron Mountain

Lake Marie, Wyoming, on a relatively still morning in summer of 2008