I have been to the South Carolina coast numerous time shooting in the vicinity of Charleston, but I always wanted to go the extra distance up the coast to the North Carolina Outer Banks.
I was determined to go to Caddo Lake, Texas this year after a great fall season with very successful fall color expeditions to Washington State in September and Maine in October.
There is so much to like about the Maine coast in the Fall. The rocky coast is unlike anywhere else in the United States, and the sunrises can be nothing short of spectacular.
I had photographed Mount Rainier before during the summer when the wildflowers are in bloom. For years, I had wanted to photograph the fall colors there and finally got the chance.
Although I have lived in Florida all my life, I pursued landscape photography in other states and countries assuming I could scenes in Florida anytime I wanted.
Mount St. Helens, North Cascades National Park, Mount Rainier and the Lavender Farm at Mount Hood were drawing me to the Pacific Northwest in July for Landscape Photography.
Soberanes Point, Garrapata State Park, Monterey 17 mile Drive, McWay Falls and other areas on the Big Sur coast are just some of the reasons to be on the California Coast for landscape photography.
Clingman's Dome, Newfound Gap, The Little River, Tremont, Roaring Fork, Cades Cove and Dogwoods in bloom are great reasons to be in the Smoky Mountains in April for Landscape Photography.
Factory Butte, Canyonlands, Dead Horse Point, Bryce Canyon and Red Rock Canyon are all great locations for Landscape Photography and it was time for a visit.
Cape Disappointment, Shore Acres State Park, Samuel Boardman Scenic Area, Gold Beach, Yaquina Head and Columbia River Gorge were all on the to-do list for this trip.
Flower season at Mount Rainier and Olympic National Park were the first two targets after having to stay home for six months due to COVID-19. It was long overdue.
For quite a few years I have wanted to experience and photograph the mountains in Italy, known as the Dolomites. I love snow-covered mountains, so it just made sense to make this trip during the winter.
We first headed to the coast at Cannon Beach to photograph Haystack Rock at sunset. It turned out to be heavily overcast and covered in fog, so we hoped for the morning.
I have made two previous expeditions to photograph in Iceland, but both were in the summer. The sun rises and sets from the south in the winter, which results in different possibilities in addition to the winter scenes.
My son Jason and I arrived in Southwest Colorado hoping to find that there had been an early snowfall on the mountains like last year, but it was not to be.
August is definitely the time to be in the Southwest with the high likelihood of great clouds and storms. The goal was to capture some great images and I was thrilled with my success.
Our main target of this expedition was the northern California redwoods. We were hoping to capture some of the Rhododendrons in bloom among the redwoods.
The eastern side of the Sierra Mountains near Bishop, California provides many opportunities for great landscape photographs. I have been there before, but I had some unfinished business there.
Above the 68th parallel, lie the Lofoten Islands. The jagged mountains rise straight up out of the various fjords and are so close, it seems you can reach out and touch them.
December would seem like an odd time to go to the coast for photography, but the sun rises and sets to the south resulting in much different photo opportunities than in the summer.
June and July were busy months, photographically and otherwise. One of the main attractions in the east in June is the Rhododendron bloom in the mountains of North Carolina.
There are many photographic possibilities in the Eastern Sierra Mountains of California. We arrived right when the big winter storms were hitting the mountains.
There are a variety of options in late October for fall color. This year, I was visiting with family in North Georgia, but I knew there were some opportunities there.
Utah and the Wasatch Mountains were the main targets for western fall color this year, because different from Colorado, in Utah some of the leaves turn red in addition to yellow.
When you think of Spring, you usually think of April. Flowers are blooming, the trees are lush and green, snow is still on the mountains and the water is flowing in the waterfalls.
The Smoky Mountains have a wide variety of photographic possibilities from the rivers in the valley to the outstanding views from the top of the mountains.
Spring is a great time to photograph in Yosemite National Park. The Dogwoods are in bloom, the fields are green and the waterfalls are running from the snowmelt.
