As a photographer, I look at the world differently, see things in a different light. Through the magic of the camera, I am able to capture what I see and how I [...]]]>

As a photographer, I look at the world differently, see things in a different light. Through the magic of the camera, I am able to capture what I see and how I see it, and to share with the world that vision through my photographs.

This winter, the starkness of the sometimes fogged-in, sometimes painfully brilliant Mount Ashland provided me with the raw materials to create some of the most beautiful and thought-provoking photographs of nature I have ever made.

The confluence of the Cascades and Siskiyous, a unique combination of geology, biology, climate, and topography, afforded me more grandeur than the panoramic vistas of the Great Plains, and more majesty than the Rockies illuminated by the morning light.

Constant flux atop the range causes, at one minute, earth and sky to meld seamlessly together, giving trees and rocks a surrealistic disconnection from anything solid. Moments later, winds of change yield a hair’s breadth of separation between land and air, imparting a grounded feeling, much more poignant by comparison, to that which merely the blink of an eye before, seemed to exist only in imagination.

I am excited to share my treks into the fringes of this grand wilderness, and I hope you enjoy the images I have brought “Down from the Mountain”.

The intensity and shades of colors can glisten, mute, explode, and blend together to morph the sky into a pallet to be seen only once. Ever changing as the sun sinks over the horizon,the light refracted and reflected, the individuality of the ‘rise or ’set never to be repeated. The euphoria of the moment [...]]]> There is no way to describe the colors of the sky at the rising and setting of the sun…at least I’m not poetic enough to do it.

The intensity and shades of colors can glisten, mute, explode, and blend together to morph the sky into a pallet to be seen only once. Ever changing as the sun sinks over the horizon,the light refracted and reflected, the individuality of the ‘rise or ’set never to be repeated. The euphoria of the moment is the only thing that returns, but never at the same intensity.

We search for beauty through out the world. Traveling to distant and exotic lands…when most of the time we only have to pack a picnic and find a comfortable place close to home to watch the beginning or end to the day. Nature has a way of bringing the beauty of life to us, we have only to be patient, ready and willing to accept the gift.

So the next time you feel that wounder-lust and feel the need to find the peacefulness of momentary solitude, find the spot, watch the sky, have the patience and enjoy the gift of a “Sunrise-Sunset” moment.