A beautiful lenticular cloud threatens to engulf Mt. Hood in Oregon on a frigid winter morning

I learned that the European photographers like shooting with the sun to their backs, while we Americans like to shoot into the sun. So when the European driven van parked a couple of miles away from this spot, I did the chubby person version of a run to get to this shot just as the sun set behind the peak

It's a grueling snowshoe trip to this vantage point during the winter months at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon... at least when you are chubby and out of shape

Wild natural colors inside a melting snow cave in the Washington Cascade mountain range

Taken on my first real photography trip, this remains one of the best sunsets I've ever witnessed

A personally important image for me. This was my first trip back shooting with friend and mentor Ryan Dyar after months of recovery from cancer. I wasn't sure I would ever make another photograph, so I'm very grateful for the opportunity

We spent ten hours standing in -30c temperatures waiting for the aurora borealis to show up in a remote field of Norway. When it came, it was glorious

The gloom of an Icelandic storm is intense and turns the entire landscape into a various shades of grey. It feels at once lonely, and achingly beautiful

The geysers of Iceland are as important as they are beautiful. Geothermal power accounts for 25% of the country's energy

A beautiful dawn morning from a frozen meadow at the foot of Mt. Hood in Oregon

The famous black sand beach in Iceland is home to thousands of shattered icebergs

Light pierces through the weather and falls upon the tundras of northern Iceland

I now see why the Norwegians are so good at the sport of curling. They get to see it all the time

Squalls rolled off the ocean and onto this beach in the Lofoten Island region of Norway

An Icelandic fox is showing her true thoughts on the beautiful sunset on a cold autumn evening

The water creeping up onto this Norwegian beach was so shallow you could walk out for what seemed like forever

As the last bit of twilight settled over the Lofoten Islands, I saw this rocky beach and yelled to be let out of the van carrying our group. A long, snowy sprint to the waters edge ensued leaving me no time to hone my composition. But I did manage to get a few frames before the last of the color faded

A long exposure of a classic fishing village in Norway under stormy skies

A small ice cave in the Cascades of Washington is a cold, wondrous, and dangerous place to spend time

Channels formed by the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens fill with snowmelt during spring.  40 years after the eruption, regrowth in the Toutle River Valley has returned with vibrant greens.