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Mountains { 35 images } Created 24 Nov 2010

Captures of the moments when the permanent and the fleeting combine in a mountain setting. These images are a compilation of my favorite landscapes, largely from the North American West.
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  • The Ansel Adams Wilderness hugs Yosemite National Park to the Southeast. It's a backpackers paradise, dotted with alpine lakes, great trail access (it hosts both the PCT and The JMT for a while) and austere off-trail options. Mount Ritter and Mount Banner are almost always visible in this wilderness and are popular targets for alpine climbers. I crafted this shot early on the last morning of a backpack trip. The brilliance of sunrise had passed, and the light was turning from oranges and purples to crisp blue and gold.  I had geared up to head out, thoughts on flip-flops and a cheeseburger, intent on charging the miles back to the trailhead. As I walked around the lake I found myself stopping constantly to eye the foreground, and the interplay of the reflection with it.
    Ritter and Banner Reflected
  • Crisp fall mornings in the Eastern Sierra can't be beaten.  Fellow photographer Diego Panasiti and I were stoked to drive down to the High Sierra in the fall of 2015 for one last shot at fall colors.  The alarm went off early at the lodge, and we rolled up canyon to shoot the dissipating inversion at sunrise.  As we walked up to the ridge we were passed by a very professional looking photographer heading back down.  All he said to us was "Ya missed it!" I have no idea what he meant by that, as the sun hadn't yet risen. Still, he gave up the spot I wanted, and we took in an epic Sierra sunrise through the fog.
    McGee Mist
  • Some backpacking trips happen on a whim. This one was planned. My dad had booked the permit for the Enchantments months before, he was visiting from back East. I had done several day hikes in the area when I lived in Washington. The Enchantments were close, and I loved camping down along Icicle Creek, just outside of Leavenworth.  Despite a familiarity with the area, I had no idea the sense of wilderness that we would encounter on this trip.  This area is full of Jagged sawtooth ridges, blue glacial tarns and mountain goats everywhere I turned. We camped just South of this lake. I had scouted the shot during the daytime, and returned to setup minutes before sunset.
    Enchanment
  • Midnight Sunset
  • Day's End
  • Big Rock Candy Mountain
  • McGee Creek is a favorite shooting location of mine. As a Truckee, California local, it's great to head down to the High Sierra and to access a different type of mountain environment.  This canyon has great access and diverse subjects, as well as being my home base in the Sierra. A prime spot for peak fall colors, I hit the canyon up every year.  I framed several shots in the canyon on this morning, focusing on sweeping landscapes, rather than intimate details or the flow of McGee Creek. This one ended up being my favorite; I love the forms of the various subjects, and the in sync line and color of foreground and background.
    McGee Autumnal
  • Lemon Inversion
  • Gilded Saddle
  • After a long approach day into Kings Canyon National Park, my colleague and I tramped back up to the lip of Kearsarge Pass to take in the sunset above the Pinnacles.  We were rewarded with an amazing vantage point, and shifting, tonal colors.
    Kearsarge Pinnacles
  • Auralithic
  • Sonora Waves
  • Levels
  • Emergent
  • Kind of Blue
  • Brimstone
  • Orange Pop
  • Driving from Tahoe to Washington inland can be a bit flat and dry depending on your route.  I was really happy to catch this sunset over the Santa Rosa Range in Northern Nevada.
    Red Sky at Night
  • Blowin' Glass
  • Far from Nowhere
  • The Heavy Crown
  • Smooth Dawn
  • Transient
  • Shasta's Coming Through
  • Cresting
  • Mount Hood
  • Polychrome Canyon #2
  • Gravity
  • High Country
  • Sierra Wake-up
  • Highway 56 runs through the most remote river valley in the lower 48 states, the Bull River valley in Northwest Montana.  This drainage for the Cabinet Mountain Range has countless sloughs and oxbows, full of moose, bear and elk.  This slough is a favorite early summer reflection spot for me, and an old field site from graduate school!
    Cabinets Open
  • Rainbow Road
  • Lakes Basin
  • Waiting Game