Lower Falls, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
I’ve spent much of my life looking at the land—first as a geologist, and over time, as a photographer. The camera has become another field tool, a way to record not just what a place looks like, but how it feels to stand there.
Many of these photographs come from the American West, especially Yellowstone, the Bighorn Basin and surrounding country, where I’ve walked the ground for years. Others are from places where I have lived and/or worked: Alaska, Texas, Louisiana, Utah, Nevada. Others are from places farther afield—coastlines, volcanic islands, and forests that caught my attention for one reason or another. Whether close to home or halfway around the world, I tend to be drawn to the same things: structure, light, and the stories written into the landscape.
You’ll see a lot of trees here—often standing alone. Cottonwoods along a stream, lodgepole pines on thin volcanic soils, or wind-shaped forms at the edge of cliffs where trees can survive. I’ve always been interested in how plants fit into the geology around them—where they grow, and just as importantly, where they don’t.
Light does the rest. Early morning, late evening, or the muted light of a storm—those are the moments that reveal form and texture. In many of these images, weather is as much a subject as the land itself.
This section is organized by place and/or subject. Some images stand on their own. Others connect to longer write-ups in the Field Notes section, where I take a closer look at the geology, ecology, or history behind the scene.
Take a look around.
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