It is February in Idaho, which means cold, snow, rain, and every other type of inclement weather you can think of. I took this photo last summer while out fishing. I can't wait to get outside in weather like this again. Just a few more months to go...
The Lava Field
I've said it before, but I cannot stress enough that Craters of the Moon National Monument is like no other place I have ever been. The landscapes are breathtaking, stark, yet so filled with detail from the past that it is hard to wrap your head around what you are looking at. You have no... Continue Reading →
The Cave Wall
In the same cave at Craters of the Moon that I took the photo of The Alien Rock and The Cave Ceiling, I came face to face with an imposing cave wall so full of texture and color that I had no choice put to take three pictures and stitch them together using ON1 Photo Raw... Continue Reading →
The Cave Ceiling
Yesterday I wrote about how The Alien Rock had fallen from the ceiling above during a collapse of the lava tube. This is the ceiling it fell from. The amount of texture in it is hard to comprehend without focusing on small areas one at a time. There is the brighter, mirror-like rock near the... Continue Reading →
The Alien Rock
A couple of weekends ago my wife and I joined two friends and took a trip to Craters of the Moon National Monument southwest of Arco, ID. It is an old volcanic rockscape and is an amazing representation of flood basalt. There are caves, lava flows, cones, craters - it's stunning. The landscape is so... Continue Reading →
Surreal Missoula Sunset
I lived in Missoula, MT for over a decade. One of the things I miss most: the amazing sunsets. The colors were often surreal. This photo looks like a painting, but I assure you it is 100% real with only minor edits made in Photoshop.
A Peek at Mustang Peak
Though not officially named, the mountain in this photo is called Mustang Peak but is also known as Howard Peak. One of a series of smaller peaks dotting the ridgeline above 10, 800', the peak in the photo is just over 11,000'. Located in the Pioneer Mountains of central Idaho, it is the backdrop of... Continue Reading →
Moose in the Snow
I took this, and several other photos, of a moose a few years ago at Elkhorn Hot Springs just outside Polaris, MT. We had just pulled in to the pool area parking lot and this moose, and her two calves were just milling about near the pool fence. I got out of the vehicle and... Continue Reading →
Unknown Lake
I actually have no idea what this lake is called, so I've dubbed it "unknown lake". What I do know is that it was off in a side canyon up a rough trail in the mountains outside Sun Valley, ID. It was a gorgeous August day, and the water was the clearest I have ever... Continue Reading →
Snake River Canyon Animation
Here is my first attempt at animating a photo. I brought the Snake River Canyon Photo into Hype 3 (HTML5 Interactive web content and animation software from Tumult, Inc. - you can buy it here: https://tumult.com/hype/) Looks pretty cool for a first go at using the software.