Photographer on The Dunes, 1997

This photograph (the web site's signature image), was taken in the sand dunes area of Death Valley, not far from Stove Pipe Wells.  It was late afternoon, facing west, which started to put the foreground dunes into shadow.  The sky was featureless but the haze created a layered effect to the distant mountains.

Walking (more accurately struggling), to the top of a dune I saw a large-format photographer setting up his tripod on top of another dune about a half mile away. In my mind's eye I saw what I must look like to him, and created this picture.

Whenever I look at it I am reminded of the joy of landscape photography and of working in the desert Southwest.

Taken on Provia 100 with a Rollei 6008 and Schneider Tele-Xenar 180mm f/2.8 lens.

  Antelope Canyon, 1997

One of the icons of contemporary landscape photography is Antelope Canyon near Page Arizona.  A unique geological formation, access to the canyons are now restric...