I’ll admit it, I am drawn to close-ups of leaves and other forest detritus. Near Sundance, UT.
An Autumn puddle. Lewisville, PA.
A simple reveal of a forest floor.
PA, Unionville. Leaf on moss.
I snuck up near this bull caterpillar, hoping it wouldn’t charge me.
Pennsylvania, near State College. Does the child’s shoe suggest something innocent or sinister? Note unusual lacing pattern.
Spring-time after the 2020 forest fire in the Bridger mountains.
Assignment-produced image for Sunset magazine. Trinity Alps, CA.
The morning dew-drop inverts the image of this meadow near Huntsville, UT.
Images that for a moment, are confusing, can be more engaging.
Abalone – such beauty…a fella (Luke) was perfecting starting young abalone in Mexico, then maturing them in Tomales Bay, CA.
Here, the counterbalance of motion and stillness at the headwaters of the Salmon River.
In this Idaho aspen grove, I was testing a newly-bought view camera with a medium format roll back. I like the result, but the camera setup was cumbersome to use and carry.
I'm not sure if this is the same aspen grove, but a different season and feel, with a minimum depth of field.
I was trying to offer the feel of early summer Pennsylvania mornings, quiet and damp.
The focused food gathering of a busy bee, in the Crazy Mts., MT.
Working at dusk in the grizzly bear rich Ruby Valley, MT is exercise in caution and creativity.
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you; it’s the things you know that ain’t so.”
– Mark Twain