
Light never ceases to amaze me. It travels across a monochrome environment and brings color and texture in unexpected places. It can make a scruffy twig look like a piece of art.

This image was shot on the east side of Capitol Reef, on the road going south to the Water Pocket Fold. The light was so severe that I had to take two images to make a composite. This is one of the least-visited national parks and one of the most facinating.

While I was working on the Arizona stuff, I decided to take a break. This was shot this morning…..and I got frostbitten fingers through my gloves! It was snow and freezing rain. I ended up shooting about 400 exposures…with the wave action, every shot was somewhat unique.

This was an early shot at the location that day. I had to be very mindful of my footprints so they would not impede other photographer’s compositions. Again, this was a composite image due to the light variance.

Last week I went up to the Garden to patrol for some good dawn shots. It was cold and overcast. The best I could do was catch this road to the east with a glimmer of dawn. What looks like headlights is my headlamp illuminating the snow. God, it was cold!

I went up to the Garden and was expecting heavy fog at dawn. The only thing foggy was my breath as I slogged through the heavy wet snow, I only ended up taking 5 exposures for all that work!

This is known as the “Buzzo Tree”, named after my Dad. He always had a small lit tree at the end of the pier near his house. We put this little one up outside on our deck in his memory.

The sun was just starting to light up the top surfaces of the slot canyons in Arizona. This was shot at “Canyon X” which is on Reservation land about 25 miles NE of Page. It was COLD; in the canyon it was about 18.

This is the view at Christmas when entering the Chicago Botanic Garden. I remember jumping to the side a few times so I would not get hit by a car.