My dog Kira, named after the Deep Space Nine major. Taken with an Elan 7 and 50mm Sigma Macro lens.

Another dog portrait taken with the Elan 7. She is a Great Pyrenees female.

A friend of mine coming to punch me in the shoulder for saying stupid things. Good times camping! Taken with on camera flash with the Canon Elan 7.

Mogie is an old German Shepherd. We were out camping in the White Mountains of Arizona and he got cold. Beer, good company, and dogs are all that's required when out camping. Good times.

This juniper species was named Alligator due to the look of the scales on the bark. The smell when this is burnt is heavenly.

I'm fond of my cheap Cordoba classical guitar. It plays good. Good action. Now if only I could get super good at playing it.

Good friend of mine, Toby, trying to decide what he wanted to order at a nice outside restaurant in Flagstaff Arizona. I got a wonder grilled pear balsamic salad there.

This car belongs to a good friend who lives in Minneaplis, MN. I've even got to drive it a few times. Cute little car. It's owner does a great job taking care of it.

I love it when auto enthusiasts take old trucks, slam em on the ground, and then paint em up all old timey. Sick looking ride. Photographed with my Rolleiflex T.

I love the dynamic range of this film. I use it extensively, and just can't get enough of it. Likely shot with my Mamiya Super 645. I think this shot was taken at Zion, but it may just be a rock formation in Utah.

This photograph shows one of my most amazing accomplishments. Steve, Aaron, and I built this building in a couple months from a bare strip of land. I've lived there off and on for a couple years. Love this place. I call it home.

Next to the building is my 35 foot fifth wheel trailer I lived in while I was doing survey work in North Dakota and South Dakota.

Shot taken at the Arizona Good Guys festival. They do classic car autocrossing. Love it! Shot with my Rolleiflex T.

Shot at Delmar Beach - Camp Pendelton, California. Stayed at a bungalow right on the beach with a neighbor, Kevin. I love the dreamy feel of this. Shot with an Olympus 35 RD.

Epiphany Studio Punk Rock Bridal Shoot with the Arizona Film Photography Club. These models were so fun to shoot. Shot with Mamiya Super 645.

Shot at Delmar Beach - Camp Pendelton, California. Stayed at a bungalow right on the beach with a neighbor, Kevin. I love the dreamy feel of this. Shot with an Olympus 35 RD. One of my selling shots!

Epiphany Studio Punk Rock Bridal Shoot with the Arizona Film Photography Club. These models were so fun to shoot. Shot with Mamiya Super 645.

I took of friend of mine with me when I was moving my belongings from North Dakota to Arizona in a full size van bought on the cheap from Montana Dakota Utilities. We stopped and camped in the mountains of Colorado. This is one of the very moody sky shots taken during one of our many mile hikes.

Epiphany Studio Punk Rock Bridal Shoot with the Arizona Film Photography Club. These models were so fun to shoot. Shot with Mamiya Super 645.

Epiphany Studio Punk Rock Bridal Shoot with the Arizona Film Photography Club. These models were so fun to shoot. Shot with Mamiya Super 645.

One of the more fun drives in Arizona is heading east on Highway 60 up to the White Mountains. Here's a poorly exposed, but fixed up shot I took on a summer drive. Recommended drive to get out of the hustle and bustle of Phoenix.

Epiphany Studio Punk Rock Bridal Shoot with the Arizona Film Photography Club. These models were so fun to shoot. Shot with Mamiya Super 645.

Epiphany Studio Punk Rock Bridal Shoot with the Arizona Film Photography Club. These models were so fun to shoot. Shot with Mamiya Super 645.

Epiphany Studio Punk Rock Bridal Shoot with the Arizona Film Photography Club. These models were so fun to shoot. Shot with Mamiya Super 645.

Epiphany Studio Punk Rock Bridal Shoot with the Arizona Film Photography Club. These models were so fun to shoot. Shot with Mamiya Super 645.

Epiphany Studio Punk Rock Bridal Shoot with the Arizona Film Photography Club. These models were so fun to shoot. Shot with Mamiya Super 645.

My longest living German Shepherd Dog, Heath. He's traveled the United States with me. Best car dog ever. Taken at the Snowflake Property.

I took a couple coworkers from Caris Life Sciences on a walk through ASU to introduce them to film photography. B&W is all about texture. This image shows that pretty well. Also, having subjects on differing focal planes creates really interesting photographs.

Epiphany Studio Punk Rock Bridal Shoot with the Arizona Film Photography Club. These models were so fun to shoot. Shot with Mamiya Super 645.

This was taken with the range finding Olympus 35 RD, but my friend didn't know you had to focus it. This blurry portrait of me really emphasizes the state of mind I was in when it was taken. Beer, good friends, fire, and photography while camping is great.

Cloud was having a great time resting under an Alligator Juniper Tree while out camping in the White Mountains of Arizona near Clay Springs. Shot on the Rolleiflex T. Damn the glass is great on this TLR camera.

While out roaming around the White Mountains, I tried to take some photographically interesting shots. This one is a bit muddled, but I think it looks cool.

I really took a lot of picture while I was out camping in the White Mountains of Arizona. Here is one of the campsites we made in the Apache Sitgreaves National Forest. Fire plus tent equals happy camping.

Here's a camping portrait of my buddy Steve. Spent a lot of time camping with this guy. Best friends forever.

During the time I was in the Arizona Film Photographers club, we took many photo walks. Here Jared is using his digital video camera to capture some of the fun times we had.

Here's a shot of a two track logging road through the White Mountains. Taken just outside the area we used as a camping spot. Got the sun coming through the trees just perfectly.

Perspective study on party lights. I like how this one turned out. Single subject photography.

This is an image of an old hotel. Very uniform looking. Provides neat texture.

Coworker at Caris Life Sciences. We were walking about the ASU campus to photograph neat and interesting things. She was using my Zeiss Ikonta TLR. This shot was taken with my other TLR, the Rolleiflex T.

A couple of my friends and I went up to the Lowell Observatory one night to check it out. We got to look through some awesome telescopes and spent a good amount of time reading up on the history. Really neat place.

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.