A panoramic image of Grand Teton NP stitched together from 15 images with lots of filters applied to it. It was hard getting the atmospheric color to be closer to right.

Taken with: Canon 30D

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View from a Desert Studies Center science outpost on the way to Death Valley in California.

Taken with: Canon 30D - Canon 70-200 f/4.0L

While I was working on the Mohave Tui Chub project, I spent almost my entire stipend on a Canon 30D.

Here is one of the images taken at the Desert Studies Center in the storage area.

Taken with: Canon 30D

Another image taken at the Desert Studies Center .

Taken with the Canon 30D

A view a top the small mountain at the Desert Studies Center aka Zzyzx, CA aka Soda Springs.

You can get a clear view of the dried up lake there. The Mohave river used to flow into it.

Photographed near a wetland when I was doing Waterfowl Surveys for the USFWS.

Image depicts a common whitetail dragonfly, Plathemis lydia

Taken With: Canon 30D

The setting sun taken from the Spring Mountains east of Pahrump, NV. Some beautiful sunsets can be seen from this vantage. Check out the Joshua Trees.

Taken with: Canon 30D

Sujan, the student I was assisting studying the Mohave Tui Chub , lets a lizard sit on his head.

Taken at the Desert Studies Center.

Taken with: Canon 30D

Another sunset shot just outside of Pahrump, NV. Taken from recreational road going up the mountain.

A cool shot of a bunch of different lichens on a low hanging tree branch. Taken in the White Mountains of Arizona.

Cloudy sunset taken from my friend's old property in Pahrump, NV. I lived there for about a year. Pahrump sure is a dive.

A picture taken many years ago of a friend of mine, Jasmine.

This is the best way to do a selfie. Find the nearest car and shoot into one of the side rear view mirrors. I'm looking hip with my sun faded hair. Taken in Pahrump, NV.

Taken with: Canon 30D

A bunch of hooligans like to get together at a bike shop in Mandan, ND to do a bunch of stunts while hopefully not wrecking their bike. I took a few, but this one turned out neat.

Taken with: Canon 30D

During one of my many hikes through Arizona, I snapped this picture looking up a saguaro cactus. These are pretty neat cacti and flower from the ends of their stalks. These suckers are everywhere around Phoenix, AZ.

A picture of a blooming cholla taken somewhere north of Phoenix, AZ in the Tonto National Forest. Pretty neat area to hike through, and surprisingly full of life for it being a desert.

A bonsai tree with some perfect lighting at the Como Zoo Conservatory.

Taken with: Canon 30D

A giant cool horsetail at the Como Zoo Conservatory.

Taken with: Canon 30D

A bonsai tree with some perfect lighting at the Como Zoo Conservatory.

Taken with: Canon 30D

A cholla skeleton that was baking in the desert sun. Tonto National Forest north of Phoenix, AZ.

While I was doing a land cover survey for NLCD working for the USFWS, I went through the Badlands National Park a couple times in South Dakota. It had just rained and the soil was still just damp enough for the colors to really pop out.

It's a really beautiful area. I can't wait to get back there.

Taken with: Canon 30D

While I was doing a land cover survey for NLCD working for the USFWS, I went through the Badlands National Park a couple times in South Dakota. It had just rained and the soil was still just damp enough for the colors to really pop out.

While I was doing a land cover survey for NLCD working for the USFWS, I went through the Badlands National Park a couple times in South Dakota. It had just rained and the soil was still just damp enough for the colors to really pop out.

This image is probably shot a thousand times a day. The shot is taken right off of a lookout point. It's such an amazing display of the canyon. Almost like a mini Grand Canyon. There are lots of trails around canyonlands for off road vehicle travel. Someday I hope to get back there with a capable vehicle and get some really good pictures.

I took a summer job at Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge near Pingree, ND doing belt transect work for the USFWS. It was a great job and I learned so much about the prairie ecosystem! Arrowwood setup a blind near some grouse mating areas, and it was open to the public. I went there with some coworkers a few times and got some great pictures, like this one. It was a bad crop, but I just didn't have a long enough lens at the time.

Taken with: Canon 30D

Normally I would painstakingly identify this picture, but because it's going to bother me, I'm just going to leave it as unclassified. It's a nice purple flower of unknown location and type. Kept on here because it's pretty!

Checkout the flashback to the past. Holding Martini, Marcelo's chihuahua. Picture taken while I was working at the Desert Studies Center. 17th picture taken with the Canon 30D.

Taken with: Canon 30D

The Lake Tuende at the Desert Studies Center attracted lots of waterfowl. There wasn't much water around (probably within 100mi), so quite a few of interesting birds ended up at the preserve.

Another image taken at the Desert Studies Center. I took a ton of pictures when I was there because I had just gotten myself the professional camera. A brand new Canon 30D.

These sheep were really hard to spot, and rarely came within viewing distance. I felt special getting to see them a couple times during the few months I was at Zzyzx.

A collard lizard sitting on a rock in the Mojave desert. Taken near Zzyzx, CA.

A panoramic of two images of the Mammoth Springs just inside the entrance to Yellowstone National Park. I love this park and can't wait to get back there again.

A picture of my herpatologist best friend at the Desert Studies Center. He's showing off how big something is? Squishing the desert studies center between his fingers? Who knows, but it turns out to be a good portrait.

I took a couple pictures of an agricultural building near a Mohave Tui Chub reserve pond in California. It just so happens I caught a bird at the perfect time for this photograph.

I don't even remember taking this shot, but it turned out so well. I remember he played the guitar well, and sneaked me bread from the kitchen.

While out with Jason on our lizard finding quests, we came across a rarer to find specimen. We kept him to take pictures of the next day, but the skin darkened to a point where it was not really photographable. The air temperature was too low in house for it, so we released it onto a sunny rock. It was quite happy to have some heat again. Lovely specimen.

I took a trip to Zion National Park in the spring one year, and it was amazing. Number one recommended National Park for photography and hiking.

There are going to be several pictures ascending the Angel's Landing trail at Zion National Park. It was the coolest hike I have done, ever.

Sometimes the camera will not autofocus where you want it to, but just because the image is out of focus, or the subject isn't in the focal plane, you can get an interesting picture. I really like this one because I see this type of thing quite often in my life. My dogs love to come and lick or jump up at my face. Woof.

This was an attempt at capturing an image with a pretty high depth of field with many focal planes to worry about, and hopefully It would be interesting because of the different colors and textures on each rock face. I think it turned out pretty well.

Taken with: Canon 30D

Here are some prickly pear cactus, which weren't all that common in Zion NP. These cute little plants were just facing into the sun, warming their little pear shaped appendages.

Zion is a really amazing park. It offers up many different ecosystems depending on what elevation you are at. We hiked into some gorgeous areas with this being one of them.

Some neat sandstone evidence of water erosion in one of the canyons. I bet it's pretty incredible to see the water coming down one of these.

This is the view awaiting you a top the 2mi Angels Landing hike. Easily the most stunning hike I have ever done. It's going to be pretty hard to beat. Please, during your lifetime, do this hike!

What in incredible hike. I could have stayed up there for days. Here's a look going back down the trail. There are some very easy climbing points, but everything is guided by a hefty chain.

This is a view from about half way up the trail to Angels Landing. Zion NP offers some of the most amazing scenes. This is a bucket list hike. Do it!

Here's a view going towards the end of the Angels Landing hiking trail. It isn't for the faint of heart. I really want to do this hike again. It was incredible

Zion National Park contains the most beautiful rock formations of anywhere I have ever been. Take in the beauty.

While at Zion NP, you can get to some really neat areas where the water is flowing over the top of you. This is the case here. The sun is blowing out some of the mountain details, but the water drops look stunning framed by such beauty.

Some enormously tall canyons zigzag through Capitol Reef National Park in Southern Utah. Lots of interesting hiking here, and even Fremont Petroglyphs. My buddy is hiking in front of me for scale.

It's hard to get good pictures of the Grand Canyon due to atmospheric effects. I always shoot with a UV filter, but it generally isn't enough when photographing such epic distances. I've applied a few filters here, but the effects came out well.

Another picture of the Grand Canyon. Similar filtering applied as the previous image. Pretty cool vistas.

I don't recall which area this was taken in, but it's a very neat thing to see the root system connecting each of these trees. This is a common thing and some interesting research has gone into how these plants can actually communicate with each other.

A friend of mine posing in a tree that doesn't at all look like it would support him. Fun camping shenanigans.

I've had many dogs in my life, and here is Brutus looking regal. Captured in Snowflake, AZ where I used to live.

Great Danes are just floppy beasts. Here is my goofy boy running towards me.

I'm in white with the ear muffs on. Those chainsaws aren't particularly loud, but after hours of use, they get to be. You can see my favorite dog in the background, Zoe. We logged firewood in the White Mountains near Clay Springs, AZ to heat our house in Snowflake, AZ during the winter and colder months. I miss doing these logging trips. Lots of camping and work.

Two of my best friends in the whole world out logging in the White Mountains of Arizona. I miss going on these camping/logging adventures.

This image was taken in one of the remotest areas during my survey work with the USFWS. There were areas where the only human structure you can see, even with binoculars, is the two track road leading through the grassland. It's amazing to be so isolated.

Notch-leaf phacelia, Phacelia crenulata photographed in Death Valley. Not a whole lot of life occurs in this area. This flower stood out amid barren rock and heat.

Taken with: Olympus C-3030

A friend of mine posing. Taken ages ago with an old digital camera.

Taken with: Olympus C-3030

When firewood logging we came across a lot of this hardwood juniper tree. They don't grow anywhere except in Arizona and parts of New Mexico. A really neat tight grained colorful wood. I really want to make furniture out of it.

While travelling along a North Dakota highway, I saw this and had to stop for a picture. Sunbeams were pretty common on cloudy days on the prairie.