Category Archives: Landscape Photography

North Rim Grand Canyon


Three free days, hmm, what do with them?   They were during the week so nobody else was available to join in, not a problem though.  The decision was more along the lines of, given my limited number of days to take a road/camping trip, where do I really want to […]

Hungry Valley SVRA


About an hour north of Los Angeles is Frazier Mountain containing a large number of great 4×4 trails.  My friend Daniel and I took a day-trip up to this area on Sunday only to find that the entire mountain and all of its trails were closed for the winter.  I […]

White Pocket, Zion, & Mojave


For my second trip in the Xterra, I eventually settled on a drive out to a place not too many photographers have heard of – White Pocket in Arizona.  White Pocket is located a little east of the famous Wave formation and the general Coyote Buttes area of Vermilion Cliffs […]

Anza Borrego 2013


After owning seven sports cars so far in my life (all but one having two doors), I have made a large paradigm shift and went for something different with vehicle eight. A couple weeks ago I picked up my brand new 2013 Nissan Xterra Pro-4x with a manual transmission. Not […]

Death Valley Nov. 2013


Recently I had a rare two-day weekend during a production, so two friends (Kurt & Christian) and I figured we would head up to Death Valley. As I don’t have an off-road vehicle yet, we took Kurt’s Xterra up for the weekend. Our initial plan was to head up from […]

Piute Pass


Most summers while I was a teenager included at least one long backpacking trip of a week or more with my father and brother. Over the last three years, my Dad and I (unfortunately my brother lives too far away to join us) have started back up doing an annual […]

Chimney Peak Wilderness


One of the great things about living in Southern California is that you have such a large diversity of landscapes and environments within just a few hours drive. Back in 2011, a friend and I did a hike along a short section of the Pacific Crest Trail in the southern […]

Death Valley April 2013


Photography from a warm April weekend trip to Death valley. We spent Saturday in the Eureka Dunes in the norther part of the park and Saturday driving through the rest of the park. I absolutely fell in love with the abstract shapes and tonality of the dunes and will be […]