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White Folds – Weekly Photo
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Snow Dusted Inyos – Weekly Photo
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Darwin’s Table at Sunset – Weekly Photo
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One of the great highlights of the trip was visiting the Cedar Mesa region in southeastern Utah. A pretty remote [...]
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Horseshoe Bend – Weekly Photo
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Brea Dam at Dawn – Weekly Photo
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Sunrise in the White Mountains – Weekly Photo
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Conejo Valley Panoramic – Weekly Photo
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Clouds Over Bristlecone Tree – Weekly Photo
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My Wonderful Wife – Weekly Photo
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Evolution Valley Time Lapse
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Evolution Valley Loop 9/13
Over the Labor Day weekend my brothers and I went on a 5-Day 37 mile backpack in the Eastern Sierras that went [...]
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10 years ago this month I made the switch from film to digital when I took a massive 3 megapixel Kodak camera on [...]
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Photo collage experiment to accentuate the contorted and twisted look of these unique ancient trees.
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