Landscape & Nature Photographer — Lightroom Expert & Tutor
“A land of dreams and nightmares, where the waking world meets the fantastic shapes and bent forms of imagination.” (Lawrence Hogue, All The Wild And Lonely Places).
The desert was an entirely new territory for me. Before visiting Southern California for the first time in September 2009, with visits to Joshua Tree National Park and the Salton Sea, I had never photographed the desert. It takes time to appreciate what lies in the dry, rugged and desolate landscape, and by now, I’ve come to enjoy hiking and photographing in the desert more and more.
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Decorative fine art desert floral photography from Southern California’s desert regions.
A selection of miscellaneous favorite color photographs – mostly intimate landscapes, seascapes and desert scenes – that aren’t part of other, more tightly themed or focused portfolios.
Badlands may be “bad” from our normal, human point of view: hardly any plant life, deeply eroded, difficult to navigate. From a photographic point of view though, they are among the most beautiful and fascinating landscapes one can image. Or …
A curated selection of calming landscape and nature fine art photography for our uncertain times, from sea & coast, deserts and mountains.
In the south-easternmost part of California in Imperial County lies one of the biggest dune vegetation systems of the United States. It is located only about 2.5 hours east of San Diego. Extending from the Salton Sea to the Mexican …
My fascination with Anza Borrego’s slot canyons began with a hike in December 2011, when a friend led us to an impressive canyon in the Coyote Mountains Wilderness. We hiked down what began as a dry ravine and then turned into a short but impressive slot canyon. The feeling of being “inside the Earth” got me hooked immediately.