2012
After spending five days over the New Year shooting the Grand Canyon, I photographed my way through the red rocks of Sedona, across the Continental Divide, then dropped down to the Rio Grande, following it south into the Tularosa Basin to shoot at White Sands once again.
Sand dunes are always striking as their organic shapes and patterns constantly change the absorption and reflection of light, but the dunes of White Sands are uniquely special because they reflect the color of the surrounding light more vividly.
2000
The expanse of the sea has always fascinated me. At 22, two of us crossed the Atlantic in a 33-foot sailboat. Thirty years later, living and sailing on a tidal river flowing into the Chesapeake Bay reawakened that ultimate sense of freedom for me. Weather’s myriad of moods on the water — from the calm of the river at my home on the Eastern Shore to the pounding of the Pacific Ocean — provided me another extreme visual palette.
