Monthly Archives: May 2011

A glorious greeting, workshops and an anecdote

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! – John Muir Often, when looking to properly express the emotions I feel having been to the mountains, I find that Muir has said it best. I had the good fortune of taking my camera around the Yosemite valley a bit this past weekend and will...

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

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Rapturous

Headed to Yosemite So, word has it the world ends starting tonight. For me personally, few if any religious claims deserve serious thought – this one least of all. I suppose the fact that so many people want the world to end and, of course, the highly ridiculous nature of this particular claim is what...

Violet hour from Washburn Point

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The Stanford Magazine features one of my photographs

Late Night Burgher I was lucky enough to be featured on a six-page spread in the University of Chicago Alumni magazine last fall, and now I was fortunate enough to have an image of mine picked up by the Stanford Magazine for a feature they call “1000 words.” Each issue spotlights an image of the...

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Starry Starry Night

New steps on the old path Back to the Grand Canyon. Back to the edge of the abyss in the dark of the night and into the bitter cold and snow-dusted edges of the Colorado plateau. I took the first two of these photographs from the very top of the Bright Angel Trail in the...

Star trails above the Grand Canyon

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Breathtaking ultra high resolution of the night sky

Photopic Sky Survey I can’t get enough of scrolling through this amazing bit of work by Nick Risinger. You should check it out and share it with others. Follow Nick @photopicsky.

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