Joshua Tree National Park, California This shot is about texture. Run your hands over these rocks and feel one more day among millions. It's also about the morning sky, a color that I'd never seen before. Iron blue? I can't describe it. It's January in the Mojave, the best time to visit Joshua Tree [...]

Devil's Golf Course, Death Valley, California Aptly named, Death Valley is one of the most desolate places on earth. These chemical globs, left over from eons of god-knows-what, extend as far as the eye can see. Download These downloads are popular screen savers, but you can use [...]

Fire Canyon Fantasy, Valley of Fire, Nevada Part reality, part fantastical landscape, this shot happened accidentally during a trip through Nevada. Looking beyond the second range in the far distance is another surreal topography: Las Vegas. For me, the lights, colors, and architecture of Fire Canyon are much more compelling. Download [...]

Valley of Fire, Nevada I get a visceral reaction from this shot. It seems that nature had taken a wire brush to the skin of this rock, and scraped it torturously, day by day, for millions of years. Download These downloads are popular screen savers, but you can use [...]

Zion Narrows, Zion National Park, Utah This shot was taken in the autumn of 2007, shortly after I'd returned to Utah from 20 years in Boston. It's on the trail to the "trailhead" if you can call it that, as the trail ends at the Virgin River, wherein those who don't mind getting wet and have [...]

Snow Canyon State Park, Utah And so, you're walking along, camera in hand, looking for that perfect vista, and you happen upon this thing. Is it an entrance to a massive cave? Or is it a macro shot, tiny, like one of those countless shots you've seen with pretty flowers and butterflies? Whatever it is, [...]