Glacier National Park

We took a road trip to Glacier National Park in July 2014. This is our family photo of the trip. No, I'm not standing in the water. Yes, the water really was that blue.

Photo: Nikon D90, 18-200mm, 18.0 mm, F/8, 1/80 second.

Rising Moon Over Cathedral Rock

In December 2018, we hiked out to Cathedral Rock see the full Moon rise. I captured this photo with my Nikon Z 7, 24 mm, F/22, 25 second exposure.

Muley Point

This first image is a stack of three photos of a lightning storm over the San Juan River. In September 2015, we camped on Muley Point above the Valley of the Gods in southern Utah, northern Diné Bikéyah, just after climbing the Moki Dugway. This is a view looking west.

The three images I used to create this stack are below. I took more photos, but did not have a tripod with me, so these are handheld (well, knee-supported) and every additional photo adds the likelihood of blur and misregistration between photos. Each photo was taken on my D90 with an 18-200 mm lens, 55 mm, F/32, 2 second exposure.

Monument Valley Full Moon

I took this photo during the full Moon October 2017. We were camping in Monument Valley with my in-laws specifically to try to get some photos during the full Moon. The buttes here are The Mittens.

It was a very dusty couple of days.

This was taken with my Nikon D90 18-200 mm lens, F/5, 82.0 mm, ISO 200, 15 second exposure.

Pelicans From the Fog

This is a photo I took in 2011 during a trip to San Diego and Cabrillo National Monument (Point Loma). This was mid-morning before the fog burned off. The Pelicans appeared out of nowhere and then disappeared just as suddenly. I converted the image to greyscale, but really almost didn't need to bother.

Taken with a Nikon D90, 18-200 mm lens, F/13, 70 mm, ISO 200, 1/640 second exposure.

First Post

This is the inaugural post of my photography blog. I don't know if I'll keep this up, but for now this is where I'm sharing my photos.

On Friday last week we went up to the Grand Canyon to get moving and to avoid the crowds. We mostly stuck to the eastern edge of the South Rim. The skies were pleasantly cloudy, a few snow pellets fell from time-to-time, but mostly it was just chilly.

While setting up my camera for a wide-angle shot, some of that drizzly snow fell into the canyon and created this rainbow. Talk about luck!

I did some minimal processing to the photo, primarily by increasing the contrast so that the foreground junipers were less distracting.

This was taken with a Nikon Z7 with the Nikkor Z 14-30 mm lens: F/7.1, 14.0 mm, ISO 100, 1/400 second.