Finding John Muir
This morning, I saw the trailer for a new documentary on the John Muir Trail, “Mile…Mile and a Half.” It looks like it will be worth a look when it comes out, and I hope I’m able to see it on the big...
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Revisiting the White Mountains
Just a few posts ago, I mentioned how I spent several summers working in the White Mountains of eastern California when I was in graduate school. The Whites are an interesting mountain range....
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Climbing Mountains
I recently did a solo backpack into southern California’s San Bernardino Mountains. My primary goal was to climb San Gorgonio Mountain (11,503′), the tallest point in southern California; my secondary...
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All That Glitters
With kids, practicality often wins out over idealism. When I camp, I would much rather be completely alone on a sage flat or next to a small mountain lake than in a campground choked with campfire...
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Returning to the sea
While I normally don’t think of myself as a desert rat per se, when I do some serious self-examination, that is where I find my imagination wandering. Deserts can be funny places; you can sit all day...
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On being busy and the creative life
It is funny how life can get away from you sometimes. For the past few weeks I’ve been so busy I have not have much time to write and even less time to pick up my camera to make new images. Over the...
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2013 Year in Review
“Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home — not by story or blood but merely by their forms and colors. How...
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Understanding the Why, part 1
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about why I make images. What’s my motivation to get up at unreasonable hours, explore dusty dirt roads that haven’t been touched in years, or hike for hours in the sun...
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Understanding the Why, part 2
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about why I make images. What’s my motivation to get up at unreasonable hours, explore dusty dirt roads that haven’t been touched in years, or hike for hours in the sun...
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2014 year in review
“Walking takes longer… than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.” — Edward Abbey In several ways,...
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2015 year in review
It’s that time of year again when you start to see ‘best of’ lists popping up all over the internet. I can’t lie–I enjoy them just as much as the next person. It’s always fun to look back on the...
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New Gallery: Oceans as Wilderness
As hard as it is for some people I meet here in southern California to believe, I didn’t see the ocean for the first time until I was 21 years old. I had a summer job working for the U.S. Forest...
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Photography and our Public Lands
Over the last several weeks, we have been reminded of very real threats–or at least dangerous precedents set–to the Western landscape, and to American public lands in general. First, all defendants in...
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