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

Sandstone formations stretch out to the horizon in South Dakota

Deep canyons of erosion cover the Great Plains of South Dakota

takes in a rainbow on the dried lava of Kilauea

A wonderful evening spent with a dear friend on an incredible photography excursion to Arizona

The Painted Hills in Oregon are an otherworldly place

When this one developed over Mt

Fall in the Columbia River Gorge of Oregon is a wet

The first rays of sun highlight the fall colors in a grove of aspen trees in Utah

These fascinating monoliths in the California desert catch beautiful side light at sunrise

Violent storms crash into the Eastern Sierra mountains of California before having their clouds ripped to shreds by the jagged peaks

Shortly before I took this image

so we shot this scene essentially blind