Sierra Nevada East Side, 2002

This picture is made from the same location as the previous one. Howwever, an Olympus B-300 tele-extender is attached - giving me the equivilent of a 35mm picture made with a 340mm lens. The Olympus is a good lens - at the moment, out of production but available on ebay. (The Olympus A-200, with 1.5 extention, is available from B&H).

Photographed along the June Lake Loop, eastern Sierra Nevada mountains - 200mm full telephoto extention (but see next image from the same location, with an Olympus B-300 telephoto attached)

This beautiful cascade was difficult to spot (thanks go to my co-instructor on our photography workshop, Mark Forbes). It's just off the road in upper Lundy Canyon, below Yosemite National Park. I stacked a polarizer and a ND 4x filter on my camera to slow down the shutter speed, in order too blur the water.

The interior of one of the homes in the fantastic ghost town, Bodie, in eastern California.

Sunrise saturates the mountains, the tufa towers, and Mono Lake with warm colors.

The dog appeared out of nowhere when our van pulled to the side of the road, near Mono Lake, California, to warn us away from the sheep. At least he was wagging his tail. At first I was annoyed that the dog had turned the sheep around - but now I see it makes for a more interesting composition, along with the backlight that I also objected to at first.

I photographed the interior of the Standard Mill, in Bodie, California. Drastic underexposure in manual mode let me create the necessary contrast I wanted for this picture.

This scene is just west of the little resort town of Brideport, California (where I stayed at the historic Bridgeport Inn.) I liked the telephone poles marching down the road that led my eye into the scene.

Twin Lakes lie at at the base of the eastern Sierra Nevada. At Lower Twin Lake, from this camera position, the water glows red, reflected off a mountain to the north during an October dawn.

This little creek flowed through Lundy Canyon and a carpet of spent aspen leaves, in the eastern reaches of the High Sierra. A tripod and a long exposure helped me make this image - a polarizing and 4x neutral density filter helped slow down the shutter speed on my 7i.

Two or three phantasms reputedly reside in the ghost town of Bodie, which is located in the mountains of the Great Basin desert.Over the years I've spoken with a few rangers who talk about occasional strange happenings in the town that could, if you believe in such things, be attributed to these ghosts. The ghostly image here was completed with the help of a willing, living, and impromptu model, one nice enough to pose for the several minutes it took to conceive and make this picture.

Sierra east side, along the June Lake Loop