A Review of Landscape Photography Expeditions of 2022

Photos from Canada, California, Carolinas, Alaska, Maine and More

2022 turned out to be a very good year for me with many new landscape photographs taken from new locations. The year is never planned out from start to finish. I always have a few places on my mind, but if the mood strikes me to go somewhere, that may be all it takes to set up a trip.

I am sharing here just a couple from each of my ten trips in 2022 to capture beautiful and stunning landscape images to create fine art prints for your walls. Of course, there were many more, all of which are in my galleries on this website. The ones included here are simply personal favorites.

The year got off to a fast start in January shooting Winter in the Canadian Rockies. I got to some stunning locations like in “Canadian Reflection” plus one now off the bucket list with “Emerald Lake Sunset”. There were so many more from the best Winter expedition I have ever had.

"Canadian Reflection" - A Limited Edition print of 100 of a winter sunrise in the Canadian Rockies. Click on Photo to Purchase
"Emerald Lake Sunset" - A Limited Edition print of 100 of sunset at Emerald Lake. Click on Photo to Purchase

In March, I made a return trip to California to photograph Hot Creek Springs in the Eastern Sierra and to Death Valley to photograph in the Twenty Mule Team Canyon. I have been to Death Valley several times, but never came away with something good from the Canyon. This trip was the charm as I was thrilled with my results from there.

"Hot Creek Springs" - A Limited Edition print of 100 of Winter steam at Hot Creek Springs. Click on Photo to Purchase
"Twenty Mule Team Canyon" - A Limited Edition print of 100 of the multitude of colors in Twenty Mule Team Canyon. Click on Photo to Purchase

In April, it was off to the North Carolina Outer Banks. This was another one of those places that had been on the list for quite some time. April is a great time of year to be there for the sun angles, especially at Lake Matamuskeet with the sun rising behind the Cypress trees. The sunrise light on the lighthouse and sand dunes was incredible.

"Lake Matamuskeet Sunrise" - A Limited Edition print of 100 of sunrise at Lake Matamuskeet. Click on Photo to Purchase
"Bodie Island Lighthouse" - A Limited Edition print of 100 of sunrise at Bodie Island Lighthouse. Click on Photo to Purchase
"Dune of the Outer Banks" - A Limited Edition print of 100 of beach dunes on the Outer Banks. Click on Photo to Purchase

In May, I finally made the trip to Crater Lake National Park to capture the deep blue waters in the crater surrounded by snow. Fortunately, the Park Service was doing a tremendous job keeping the road clear so I could get to the important overlooks. The conditions were just fantastic.

"Crater Lake Sunrise" - A Limited Edition print of 100 of sunrise at Crater Lake. Click on Photo to Purchase

June brought me to North Carolina to photograph the Rhoddodendrons blooming at Craggy Gardens. While there, I just had to photograph the iconic tree at Craggy Gardens in the fog. I wound up coming down with the COVID virus for the first time, so I didn’t get much else.

"Craggy Gardens Rhoddies" - A Limited Edition print of 100 of the Spring bloom at Craggy Gardens. Click on Photo to Purchase
"Craggy Gardens Fog" - A Limited Edition print of 100 of the iconic tree in Craggy Gardens. Click on Photo to Purchase

Still in June, I headed down to Key West, Florida. I had photographed the middle Keys before, but had not made it down to Key West until now. The weather was perfect and I was able to capture some really nice images like the one below. They are available to see at my separate Florida Keys Gallery. It was a busy month, so July was a good month to stay home, catch up and recover.

"Morning Path" - A Limited Edition print of 100 of sunrise at Smathers Beach in Key West. Click on Photo to Purchase
"Bahia Honda Sunset" - A Limited Edition print of 100 of sunset at teh old Bahia Honda Bridge. Click on Photo to Purchase

August had me on the road again. This time is was to Peggy’s Cove in Nova Scotia and to Maine to photograph some lighthouses and summer scenes in Acadia National Park. This was one of those rare occasions when Mother Nature smiled on me and give me great skies. It feels so good when this happens and you don’t feel like you have to go back, as there are so many other locations I need to go to.

"Peggy's Cove Sunrise" - A Limited Edition print of 100 of the Peggy's Cove Lighthouse. Click on Photo to Purchase
"Nubble Sunset" - A Limited Edition print of 100 of sunset at the Nubble Lighthouse. Click on Photo to Purchase
"Summer Walk" - A Limited Edition print of 100 of a summer forest in Acadia National Park. Click on Photo to Purchase

Early September was my first serious landscape trip to Alaska for Fall colors. I joined my good friend Jess Lee, www.jessleephotos.com, for this one. Alaska is a big area and having two people to drive allows you to be out more. We had great weather in Denali National Park and we had an early snowfall to cover the tops of the mountains. I could not have asked for more.

"Lake View" - A Limited Edition print of 100 of the mountain called Denali. Click on Photo to Purchase
"Alaska Snow Peaks" - A Limited Edition print of 100 of snow-covered mountains in Alaska in the Fall. Click on Photo to Purchase

Early October was time again to pair up with Jess and we headed to the Canadian Rockies to find Fall color and other scenes. Fall color there is limited, as it is not like Southwest Colorado. We covered ground from south of Canmore to the north end of the Icefields Parkway in Jasper, with a bunch of places in between. I think Bow Lake was just incredible and could go back just for that alone.

"Sisters of Canmore" - A Limited Edition print of 100 of the Three Sisters in the Canadian Rockies. Click on Photo to Purchase
"Bow Lake Sunrise" - A Limited Edition print of 100 of sunrise on the footbridge at Bow Lake. Click on Photo to Purchase

Late October was to be the last trip of the year. This was a good thing. I was pretty much cooked at this point and had a ton of work to do editing and processing photos from recent trips. Once again, I paired up with Jess and we covered huge amounts of ground from Joshua Tree National Park in California to southwest desert areas in Arizona and Utah. We worked seriously with drones for the first time and got pretty comfortable with them. It was a blast but we only scratched the surface of what we can do with them.

"Joshua's Moon" - A Limited Edition print of 100 of sunset at Joshua Tree National Park. Click on Photo to Purchase
"From Above" - A Limited Edition print of 100 of an Arizona desert canyon from above with a drone. Click on Photo to Purchase

November and December were at home catching up while preparing for a Winter trip to Yosemite National Park in January with Jess. I think our wives are wondering why we don’t get tired of each other, but we are always on the same page photographically and I feel we get so much done working together. Below is a sneak peak of 2023.

"Winter at El Cap" - A Limited Edition print of 100 of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Click on Photo to Purchase