Lightscapes Nature Photography Blog

I spent some time in Olympic National Park in July, 2009. One day, while I was staying in the small town of Forks, Washington, near the Pacific Coast, I paid a visit to Second Beach. It was a cloudy day, at least at the coast, due to the (seemingly) omnipresent summer marine layer. The trail […]

I’ve photographed in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula more times than any place outside of a couple of spots near my Chicago area base. The UP has been the destination of more of my dedicated photo trips than any other location, beginning in 2002 and, most recently, in 2025. One of the places I’ve visited at least […]

A couple of years ago, I posted a piece about the somewhat outside-the-box experience of seeing, and then making, an image in less than great light circumstances at an overlook in northern California. Fundamentally, the story was that, with no preconceptions about photographing anything specific–or, frankly, photographing at all, given the less than ideal light–my [&...

In one of my first spring visits to Great Smoky Mountains National Park I spent some time checking out the Cove Hardwood Nature Trail, on the Tennessee side of the park, just off the Newfound Gap Road. The trailhead is accessed from the Chimney Tops Picnic Area, which has a large parking lot. The trail […]