CatoA gnarly old tree in the dry plains of Oregon watches over the annual balsamroot bloom. Usually, I spend a lot of time trying to ensure I'm in the right place to get good conditions for photography. On this morning, however, I was thrilled that my friends Ryan and Candace Dyar were going to be in town and I just wanted to be out shooting with them, so I didn't even bother checking the weather. Sometimes, it's better to just be lucky

Lava breaks out along the shores of Hawaii in molten fingers at dawn

so this was a wonderful and very fortunate find

The landscape portion was shot by a drone

"The Tree" in the Japanese Garden in Portland before it became crushingly popular

I was grateful enough not to ask why a mature gentleman actually had a diaper on him

A beautiful lenticular cloud threatens to engulf Mt

I take great pleasure in the fact that Ryan Dyar overslept in the nearby Walmart parking lot and missed this beautiful dawn morning

As the last bit of twilight settled over the Lofoten Islands

A detailed study of ancient rocks of the Eastern Sierras in California

A self portrait along a rocky cove along the southern Oregon coast at sunset

A full moon rises at sunset through the ancient scraggly trees high on an exposed Montana ridge

shooting totally blind