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Photographing Monsoon Storms & Light at the Grand Canyon - 2023
Photographing Monsoon Storms & Light at the Grand Canyon - 2023
September 17, 2023

It has been another great year photographing monsoon storms, rainbows, and light at the Grand Canyon.

Since late July, I have led several photography workshops on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, and I've made numerous personal trips to both the South Rim and the North Rim of the park...

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Photographing Monsoon Storms and Lightning at the Grand Canyon - 2022
Photographing Monsoon Storms and Lightning at the Grand Canyon - 2022
September 30, 2022  |  Grand Canyon National Park

What a year 2022 has been for photographing the monsoon season at the Grand Canyon. After several years of weak monsoonal showers, or what some had come to refer to as the “non-soon” the rain has returned and with it came the lightning, rainbows, and dramatic skies...

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Photographing Cardiac Canyon
Photographing Cardiac Canyon
April 11, 2022  |  Page, Arizona

The American Southwest is home to some amazing landscapes, from wide-open desert vistas to the more intimate vignettes found across the canyon-country of the Colorado Plateau of the Four Corners region...

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Winter Light at the Grand Canyon
Winter Light at the Grand Canyon
January 6, 2022  |  Grand Canyon National Park

It's my personal opinion that one of the most memorable times to see and experience the Grand Canyon is during the winter. The sun is lower in the sky, and the golden light lasts long. There are fewer visitors, and if you're up for taking some short walks, it's possible to feel like you almost have the park to yourself...

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Panoramic Photos from 2021
Panoramic Photos from 2021
December 20, 2021  |  The American West

I've been spending a lot of time lately going through the photographs I made this year, and I have discovered that I made many more panoramic compositions than I have in years past. For whatever reason, the panoramic format was top-of-mind nearly every time I found myself in the field...

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Monsoon Season at the Grand Canyon - 2021
Monsoon Season at the Grand Canyon - 2021
December 4, 2021  |  Grand Canyon National Park

After two years in a row of experiencing very dry monsoons, also known as a "nonsoon" in which there was little to no storm activity, we finally had a decent season this year in northern Arizona.

I made several trips to both the South Rim and North Rim of the Grand Canyon to lead photography workshops and personal trips to create new photographs for my portfolio...

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Panoramic Photography with the Fujifilm GFX 100
Panoramic Photography with the Fujifilm GFX 100
November 22, 2019  |  Grand Canyon National Park

When Fujifilm asked if I would like to take their newest medium format camera, the GFX 100, on my Grand Canyon river trip, I immediately said, "Yes!" One of the first things that came to mind when I began to imagine how I could take advantage of this camera was shooting in-camera panoramic photos...

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