Bishop's BendA wonderful little bend in a small river under sunrise light. My friend Ryan Dyar shot this scene at one point and discovered in his file review and upside down deceased cow in the water. RIP cattle buddy

but the conditions have never what I had hoped them to be

pre-dawn light

A river of lava meets the ocean and instantly boils the water unleashing a deadly torrent of steam at the edge of Kilauea in Hawaii

A special trip with Ryan Dyar culminates with a beautiful sunrise on the Alvord playa of Oregon

A lonely road winds through the wild

This little tree has found a way to keep standing despite the relentless storms that roll through Glacier National Park in Montana year after year

I was too stunned to take a picture of it

Frequent thunderstorms rage through the Great Plains of South Dakota

Dawn light washes over intricate patterns carved into the desert of Utah

Hood in Oregon on a frigid winter morning

I did the chubby person version of a run to get to this shot just as the sun set behind the peak

The odd rocks of the Alabama Hills of California witness a fantastic lenticular cloud light up in twilight sky