
Rattlesnake Canyon
The deep and silent depths of this Arizona slot canyon contain untold mysteries. Only the howling wind, the grinding sand and the long forgotten torrents of rushing water can tell the stories of what has happened inside this lonely place for the past thousands of years. I set up my tripod and camera at this location where the elements have cut a swath through the solid rock 50 feet deep. A beam of sunlight streamed down like a spotlight from the top surface over our heads whe

Magical Sunrise in Death Valley
Magical Sunrise. It was six years ago when I hiked out to these dunes in Death Valley before dawn with my little girl by my side. She was excited to see the sun rise over the dunes and in a rare move she enthusiastically got out of bed early for this event. We hiked deep into the sand dunes while it was still dark, which is not exactly easy walking. It was a 40 minute hike to try to get as far from the road as possible where there would not be any footprints in the sand that