5 Minutes To GloryOnce a year, the keepers of the Pigeon Point Lighthouse in California would replace the modern light with the old fresnel lens and stop it's rotation for 5 minutes. Photographers would have to work very hard to find the correct settings and try to get one or two long exposure images before the light started to turn again. Sadly, due to lack of funding this event was cancelled several years ago

The spray from this giant Oregon waterfall made this area almost un-shootable

Summer wildflowers sit beside a high alpine lake in Central Oregon

A wonderful little bend in a small river under sunrise light

this remains one of the best sunsets I've ever witnessed

The landscape portion was shot by a drone

A twilight twist on a classic Oregon scene

Shortly after shooting this we returned to our campsite to find a very disturbed mouse running in dizzying circles

A prime example of the growing threat of landscape photography and social media

The last adventure I took with my trusty Jeep

The enormous heat from this lava flow made facing the camera impossible

it was glorious

So when the European driven van parked a couple of miles away from this spot