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Mar 15th, 2019
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A few years ago I wrote an article titled "Where Did They Use That Image?" where I did some searching for licenses of my images sold through Getty Images to see if I could figure out where they ended up. Today I noticed that Forbes had licensed one of my images, so I decided to see if I could find it.
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Mar 6th, 2019
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For those of you lucky enough to live in the greater Boise area, I have a special treat for you! Come see my first Boise show at Coiled Wine Bar in downtown Boise on Thursday evening!
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Feb 22nd, 2019
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The first part of my trip over, it was time to report for volunteer trail maintenance duty at Iceland's Thórsmörk National Park. What would it be like to live in a tent for two weeks while repairing sections of Iceland's most famous hiking trail, the Laugavegur? I was about to find out!
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Feb 15th, 2019
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So what do you do when most of your worldly belongings are packed into moving cubes, your condo is being renovated, and you are essentially homeless? Why, go to Iceland, of course!
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Feb 1st, 2019
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In my last article I described my trip to Anza-Borrego Desert State Park to see the wildflowers everyone was talking about. Now it was time to head back home, but not before a quick visit to Death Valley National Park to see if any wildflower activity was going on there.
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Apr 24th, 2018
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I wasn't planning to go that far south. Really, I was going to turn around after Valley of Fire in Nevada and start heading back home. But the online wildflower reports and photos posted by my Facebook friends were too much to resist. I simply had to visit Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in California.
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Apr 19th, 2018
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Last week we began exploring the Valley of Fire State Park in southern Nevada. Today we'll hike just a little deeper into the park and visit a few more sandstone formations, and one that may remind you of a more iconic desert Southwest location.
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Apr 10th, 2018
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Last spring I decided to do a loop around Nevada in search of wildflowers and other interesting photographic subjects. After wrapping up my first major stop in Great Basin National Park, it was time to head south to the place that had inspired the trip in the first place - Valley of Fire State Park.
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Mar 3rd, 2017
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We probably all have a pretty good idea of what a wilderness is - it's the exact opposite of the urban sprawl and nonsense most of us endure on a daily basis. But what is it really?
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Feb 7th, 2017
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Recently one of my customers asked me if I had more slot canyon images than were showing on my website. It seems he wanted to buy one as a birthday gift. This is exactly the kind of motivation I needed to go back and look through the archives, and as usual, what I found surprised me!
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Jan 1st, 2017
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The new year is finally here, and I've heard a heck of a lot of complaining recently about how mean 2016 was to us. This, of course, is nothing new - I hear it every year.
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Dec 9th, 2016
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You just have two days left to get your family photos taken with Santa! Hurry up and bring your family in, whatever your family may be, 'cause Santa has to get back to the North Pole after tomorrow!
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Nov 6th, 2016
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I have the privilege of living on a small mountain in the foothills of the Cascade Mountain Range, and on top of that mountain is a huge urban wildland park. This week I decided to hike in to what I refer to as my "back yard" and see what kind of late autumn photographs I could find.
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Oct 13th, 2016
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While on a backpacking trip in British Columbia a few years back, I asked some experienced backcountry photographers where the best place was to photograph larch trees in the fall. Without hesitation, they unanimously responded, "Larch Lake!". So when my friend Max asked me if I wanted some vouchers to stay in the high camp near there, he didn't have to ask twice!
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Sep 27th, 2016
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Two weeks ago in Five Years Ago This Week I went back in time to revisit a gorgeous wildflower-covered meadow in Mount Rainier National Park. This week we'll go back even further to some fall hikes in the North Cascades from six years back.
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Sep 13th, 2016
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Ever stop and think about what you were doing a year ago, or maybe five years ago? To gauge your progress or for no reason but nostalgia, some folks including my Mom kept a journal to revisit days gone by. But photos are also an excellent way to bring back memories!
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Sep 6th, 2016
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As the passing of Labor Day marks the winding down of summer, it's time to wind down our series of articles about my trip to the American Southwest with a look at some of the wildflowers we encountered along the way.
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Aug 23rd, 2016
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After our river canyon hiking adventure the day before, my friend Jeremy and I were ready to photograph - you guessed it - more canyons!
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Aug 16th, 2016
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As I've mentioned in recent articles, my friend Jeremy and I had planned to photograph the famous river canyon at The Narrows in Zion National Park, but were blocked by dangerously high flow rates. But that didn't stop us from river canyon hiking for long.
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Aug 9th, 2016
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Growing up in south Louisiana, I wasn't familiar with the concept of a "flat". Heck, everything down there is flat. It wasn't until I visited Yosemite that I encountered the term in reference to an area of land. Well, today we'll explore an area called Yant Flat, and it turns out it's not so flat.
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