Trips

Photo trip reports from recent outings and adventures. If you would like an email notification when a report has been added, sign up for my periodic newsletter.

Great Smoky Mountains, Fall 2024

Even a short autumn trip visiting Cades Cove this year was different than many other years. In many areas, trees had been stripped by the winds of the near-hurricane force winds that wreaked havoc in NC in early fall...

Denali Fall 2024

My fifth trip to Denali provided me a great opportunity to explore some more remote hikes in the back regions of this massive Park. The autumn tundra and the advancing snow line across the Alaskan range was a stunning vista...

Glacier Summer August 2024

As summer takes its brief turn in Glacier National Park, stunning wildflower displays emerge in a matter of days and weeks, and the bears and other wildlife that call Glacier home forage around the clock in their own desperate race against time...

Glacier National Park Return June 2024

I spent some time visiting again Glacier National Park, one of my favorite parks, in late June, early July. Snow was slow to clear this summer and most days brought storms and magic, rainbows, sleet, rain, great hikes and abundant wildlife...

Patagonia April 2024

Photos of Patagonia - the southern expanse of the Andes mountains that straddles Argentina and Chile. It is a stunning region of soaring granite peaks, turquoise lakes, boulder-filled moraines, glaciers and weather that changes by the hour...

Smokies Spring 2024 - Dogwoods and Lots of Bears

Photos of Springtime in the Smokies, always one of my favorite times and places. This spring the dogwoods seemed especially bright, healthy and cheery as the early greens of spring emerged everywhere...

Tetons Winter 2023 Wildlife and Elk Migration

A dry early winter led many elk to delay their annual migration, allowing special moments witnessing great herds of thousands of elk grazing and storming to higher ground when predators drew near.

Grand Teton Winter Landscapes 2023

Winter 2023 was unusually dry, with much lower snow, and more clear skies. The benefit is that sunrises and a full moon were in grand display.

Shenandoah -  Fall 2023

A special weekend in Shenandoah National Park with many friends and supporters of the Shenandoah National Park Trust afforded a nice opportunity to experience the Park's transition from a foggy Friday to a glorious weekend...

Denali 2023

In a matter of days Denali National Park witnessed the arrival of autumn, an early blast of winter, and the frenetic feeding of Denali's great wildlife, including bears, moose, carribou and even porcupines...

Yellowstone Spring 2023

Springtime in Yellowstone is a stunning experience, as the valleys come alive and new families of wildlife take their fist steps. As much as anything, this trip was an opportunity to experience again the great sweep and movement of the Hayden and Lamar Valleys that inspired the creation of America's first national park, and launched the beginning of what Ken Burns called America's greatest idea...

Grand Teton Spring Landscapes 2023

Spring brings a freshness to the air, the colors, and the young life that is making its way into the world. Here are a few of my favorite landscape photographs from this spring. There is a separate page devoted to the wildlife...

Smokies Spring 2023

Springtime in the Smokies may be my favorite season in this eastern jewel of the Park system.    Free of the crowds and the tired wear of autumn, Spring offers hope, its own medley of subtle hues and bold colors, clean fresh aromas, hungry wildlife intent on feeding their young and nourishing their families, with the streams and falls rushing along in swelled pride, providing symphonic support to the sensory overload. 

Tetons Winter 2022

Winter in Grand Teton National Park is always a place of incredible beauty, especially on those infrequent days where the sun can peer through the never-ending storms and clouds. Due to the especially deep snows, wildlife was scarce but the scenery was special...

Smokies Fall 2022 - Travels with Mom

A quick fall trip to the Smokies was extra special this year. I took my mom who with my Dad introduced me to this mountains some 50 years ago.

Teton Fall 2022

This autumn was unusually warm, even hot, sunny and cloudless, delaying autumn's wardrobe change and keeping the wildlife distant. Only occasionally did the weather provide some elements, affording a few opportunities to capture the magic that is autumn in the Tetons...

Denali Autumn 2022

For one week this autumn I hiked and biked more than 100 miles through and across the largely deserted western half of Denali National Park. Early snow, vibrant tundra colors, a couple of clear days and lots of wildlife made for an incredible experience to see Denali as few can...

Canadian Rockies August 2022

Below are a few of my favorite photos from a 35 mile hike with my daughter on the spectacular Skyline Trail that crosses Jasper National Park. And, having made it that far, I finally also was able to spend some time in Banff National Park and experience the Icefields Parkway...

Return to Glacier National Park 2022

Late, heavy snows delayed the opening of the Going to Sun Road until the second week of July this year. One great benefit though was that for days before then the road was open to hikers and cyclists only, which allowed a tranquil and leisurely experience exploring the magnificence of Glacier, as well a series of great sunrises at Many Glacier...

Grand Teton Spring - June 2022

Spring is always a special time in Grand Teton National Park as wildlife emerge with their cubs, the snow begins to retreat from the mountain range and slowly, surely green shoots begin to show life...

Fall in the Tetons 2021

Fall is always a glorious time in Grand Teton National Park, as the aspen turn their brilliant golden, for just a few days, and the warmth of summer gives way to the growing chill of approaching winter...

Denali Autumn 2021

Early September brings ravishing autumn colors to the tundra and yellow birch, aspen and larch trees, along with the arrival of early snows.

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park 2021

In early September I spent almost a week hiking in, flying above, around and throughout this Wrangell St. Elias National Park, by far the largest national park with miles and miles of glaciers and endless snow, many of the continent's highest peaks and hardly a soul around...

Grand Teton Spring Landscapes- May 2021

In May Grand Teton National Park springs to life - wildlife emerges and there is a softening in the weather, that brings new colors to the skies and emerging green shoots to the fauna, even as the mountains often hold onto their white winter coats...

Springtime Among the Grizzlies of Grand Teton NP 2021

In the Spring of 2021, Grand Teton National Park provided an amazing spectacle as multiple families of grizzlies appeared from their winter slumber and grazed the Park's many meadows, with Grizzly 399 and her quad cubs, now more than a year old, the stars of the show...

Return to Great Smoky Mountains NP, 2021

A second year of covid again limited travel but it afforded more time in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park where I first learned to hear the music and poetry of our national parks and to photograph her secrets...

Tetons Winter 2020

Winter in the Tetons is a magical time. In December 2019 and again in February 2020 I was able to witness winter's brilliant displays of hoar frost, a super moon setting over the Tetons just before sunrise and an unusual number of red foxes...

Smoky Mountain Snow, December 2020

An early December snow swept across the ridges of the Great Smoky Mountains and into the Cades Cove valley. For a couple of days, the snow and following hoar frost created a magical winter wonderland, a great respite from the Covid pandemic...

Grand Teton Fall 2020

A collection of photographs from Grand Teton National Park and Grizzly 399 and her quad cubs.

Grand Teton Fall Abstracts 2020

Below is a series of impressionistic images of fall in Grand Teton National Park. Rather than the traditional sweeping vistas and landscapes, I explored the autumn landscape in a more intimate and abstract style that, for me, conveys the sweep of color and light, shape and form, a sensory overload of motion and beauty...

Grand Teton NP June 2020 with Grizzly 399 and her Quad Cubs

The summer of 2020 in Grand Teton National Park will be forever remembered for the appearance of Grizzly 399 and her four cubs amidst a world paralyzed by the coronavirus.