Barf PeakI learned that the European photographers like shooting with the sun to their backs, while we Americans like to shoot into the sun. So when the European driven van parked a couple of miles away from this spot, I did the chubby person version of a run to get to this shot just as the sun set behind the peak

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 grey whale emerged right below my feet and scraped barnacles off its body on the sandstone cliffs

Each spring the Hood River area of Oregon boasts a wonderful display of flowering fruit trees beneath the watchful eye of Mt

but I actually shot this from my back deck in my underwear

Frequent thunderstorms rage through the Great Plains of South Dakota

An isolate

My friend Ryan Dyar shot this scene at one point and discovered in his file review and upside down deceased cow in the water

On this recent visit

It was shooting this image that I saw first hand how brilliant of a photographer Ryan Dyar is

Taken on my first real photography trip

I was able to piece together an image of this wonderful place

Oneonta Canyon in the Columbia River Gorge of Oregon sheds water down it's walls in an absolute deluge