In the Canadian Rockies there are lakes that have a beautiful deep turquoise color. This color is created by the glacial sediment settling in the bottom of the lake. The color of the lake changes with the clouds and sun. On this morning it had a deep rich color because of the recent snow and lower clouds.

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The fall time is definitely a beautiful time of year! With the trees and entire forests changing colors, it’s an exciting time to be out in nature. When I found this forest, I loved that it was at peak color, and also that the trees were not super tight and that you could see through the forest and see all the yellow!

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In the mountains in the morning it is often foggy after a rain storm. The moisture in the air combined with the usually cooler temperature, can create a very heavy fog.  As the fog was beginning to burn off, the larger trees began to cast a shadow across the fog and add a neat effect to the look of the forest. 

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Everything about this picture screams beauty.  The night before I had no idea where the mountain even was because of clouds, and the next morning all of a sudden a 20,000 foot mountain appears from nowhere.  Walking around in a marsh, I was able to find some calm waters for this reflection picture.  Seeing Denali on a clear day is an experience I will not forget, especially since I did not even know what it looked like before that morning. 

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Glaciers start at the top of the mountains, and it takes hundreds of years for that ice to reach the sea. Being able to see where the glacier began at and the way it moved and carved its way to the sea is special.

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As winter turns to summer, the lakes in Canada begin to thaw in May.  With the reflection is the open area of the lake, its a welcome sign that summer is on its way.  

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Seeing Denali in all its glory is rare, but spectacular. The fall is one of the best times because the weather is better and not as many cloudy days. Being in the backcountry on a morning that was cloudless and in the fall was a memory I will not forget.

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Seeing an entire valley filled with yellow larch trees is just incredible. That all the trees turned at the same time was just amazing! The forest of trees filled the entire valley up the base of the mountains. The trees made the entire area look as if it were glowing!

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When in Alaska, most people want to get further into land to take in the amazing scenery and mountains. One of the best ways to do that if you are on the coast, is a beautiful scenic train ride! This train in Skagway takes you high into the mountains and offers incredible views!

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I’ve been to Moraine Lake many times, and wanted the lake to be calm. to get a reflection like this. But because the lake is high in the mountains, it is a windy location and hard to get a reflection. So on this morning, when the whole lake was calm, the lake color was beautiful and reflecting the light hitting the peaks above!

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In the summer in Alaska the sun doesn't set in some places of Alaska. In southeast Alaska it does set, but in the middle of the summer it is not until very late at night. It was worth staying up to see this sunset in Juneau.

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Mountain lakes in Canada are some of the most beautiful lakes in the world. They have many different shades of deep blue, and the amount of sun also changed the way the color looks. This spot is a famous little island on a large lake and it’s easy to see why it’s such a famous place!

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Winter time in the Rockies is a beautiful time of the year. I love it when the mountains get covered in snow and the snow begins to pile up. In the early winter some of the lakes take longer to freeze than others, and a winter mountain reflection is a breathtaking view.

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Nature offers us many different views of one place. If you were to sit and look at one area throughout the course of a day, there would be times you wouldn’t recognize that same area because of the light, fog, rain, shadows and many other ways. Capturing a close up of this forest created a dramatic mood that would have been very different if I hadn’t zoomed in.

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Fall is my favorite time of year because of the forests changing colors. The vibrant colors makes me want to be outside even more than I already am. This forest made me feel like everywhere I looked was only yellow leaves!

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Going underneath a glacier into a cave that has formed underneath was very surreal.  The colors and natural design of the ice cave is indescribable until you have been in one.  An ice cave forms by a river that moves underneath the glacier.  The natural color and design of the ice was like nothing I had ever seen before.

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In Juneau, the mendenhall glacier is not far from town. During the summer the fireweed bloom nearby and create an incredible foreground to the glacier and the large mountains around the glacier.

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Not only were there no clouds over Denali, but the entire range that I could see was cloudless.  Being fortunate to watch the sunrise while looking at a priceless view is why I love Alaska.  Not only was it priceless, but me and a buddy were the only 2 people around for miles.

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Glaciers move and change as they move down valley and carve out the mountain. I was on a long hike up the mountain in Juneau when I got a nice view of Mendenhall Glacier below. I zoomed in on a part of the glacier that looked abstract and beautiful to me.

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In the mountains in the morning it is often foggy after a rain storm. The moisture in the air combined with the usually cooler temperature, can create a very heavy fog.  As the fog was beginning to burn off, the larger trees began to cast a shadow across the fog and add a neat effect to the look of the forest. 

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In the Canadian Rockies, winter can suddenly happen. It had not been that cold outside yet, so when the first large snowfall of the year happened, Peyto Lake was not frozen yet. The deep blue color of the lake really stood out with the white landscape around it.

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In the redwood forest, there are not many avenues for light to squeeze into.  Where light can shine through the forest it is often very bright because the rest of the forest is so dark.  There is just something beautiful about seeing individual sun rays shining through.  

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The night before this while hiking in the mountain was fully enclosed in clouds and I had no idea where Denali was. I happened to wake at 4 a.m. and when I looked out my tent the great mountain was clearing from the clouds. I ran back to a marshy area from hiking in and got some amazing clear pictures on a beautiful calm morning.

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Nature is truly amazing! This is a natural phenomenon that happens in this lake because there is methane gas under the lake. The methane gas is released in bubbles, and as they get to the top of the lake in the winter they freeze. Walking over the frozen ice and seeing these bubbles is an amazing sight!

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One of the prettiest places to go in the Canadian Rockies is Moraine Lake. With the lakes amazing color, and the mountains surrounding the lake awe inspiring, there is no doubt about how beautiful the lake is. When walking up to the lake, I noticed it beyond these tress, and I really liked how the trees framed the lake and mountains!

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I love experiencing and seeing new things in nature.  As I was driving, I faintly saw a streak in the fog.  I stopped, and then noticed the faint outline of a rainbow.  But there was no rain, so it had to be a fog bow.  I parked and began hiking in the fog looking for something to photograph with the fog bow, and found these trees.  The heavily hoar frost covered trees really made the fog bow behind them stand out and show off how great it was.

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The fall in Denali is my favorite time of the year. I love being in Denali in the fall because the color is spectacular, the animals are moving around a lot, and the weather is better. Catching Denali on a perfect calm day in the backcountry is why I love Denali in the fall!

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Fall time is one of the best times of the year. As the trees turn yellow the mountains come to life. I love it when an early snowfall comes and creates a dramatic scene with the snow and fall colors. It was a long hike to this area, but I could have spent a week up their taking in the views!

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In the Canadian Rockies there are lakes that have a beautiful deep turquoise color. This color is created by the glacial sediment settling in the bottom of the lake. The color of the lake changes with the clouds and sun. On this morning it had a deep rich color because of the recent snow and lower clouds.

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The coast of Alaska is very beautiful. There are many different looks and awe inspiring areas. Not that the coast needs it, but throw in an ice berg that has a beautiful design and the coast becomes even more beautiful.

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As the earth begins to warm, glaciers begin to melt faster and retreat further. It is neat to see the glaciers calve and fall into the ocean, but also sad at the same time because that means it is melting. This glacier is melting at a very fast rate and leaving hundreds of icebergs where the glacier use to be.

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I know I’ve said it before, but fall in Denali is my favorite place to be for the fall. Seeing the entire tundra turn red is simply incredible. Being back in the park when it hit its peak color made the landscape come to life.

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It’a amazing how all glaciers can look different. You would think because they are all made of ice and snow that they would look similar. However, no glaciers look similar at all and they each have distinct looks. I loved how this glacier was pleasing to the eye in how the ice all looked to move and curve in the same direction.

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Seeing large tidal glaciers is a sight to see! Especially on a clear day when you can see the mountain tops of where the glaciers start! Most of the times I’ve visited coastal glaciers, it has been very cloudy and the glaciers disappear into the clouds. So seeing such a large tidewater glacier in all its glory was beautiful to see.

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When the fireweed grow later in the summer in Alaska it turns the entire state into a much prettier state! There can be field after field of fireweed, and they really liven everything up. When I saw Denali clearing, I knew I wanted to frame the mountain with fireweed and found some along the edge of this pond.

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Denali National Park is an amazing place. It has incredible wildlife and landscapes. When it turns to fall, the tundra just comes to life. On a rare clear day in Denali, the fall colors start to peak.

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The beauty of nature is hard to capture sometimes and get the feel of what was going on in that moment. A traditional photo didn’t do this scene justice for how beautiful it was. Making a pano really helped capture the essence of how great this scene was!

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Glaciers are an incredible creation of nature.  It is hard to imagine tons and tons of ice moving down a mountain, but that is what happens.  A glacier is basically a large frozen waterfall that slowly moves down the mountain and carves the stone away as it moves.  The glacier ice is the bluest on cloudy days because of the light refraction with the clouds.

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One of the most iconic views in the Canadian Rockies is Lake Louise. There is a reason it’s so iconic, because of the amazing color of the water and high surrounding mountain peaks! There is not a bad view of this lake at any time of the day or season.

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I love seeing fog because it allows me to get creative. The way it comes and goes so fast sometime can create a very different shot just seconds apart. As the fog was rolling up the mountain, I loved how it accentuated the different ridges.

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Seeing the sunrise in the mountains is a sight I will never get tired of. Each sunrise is different, and being high in the mountains when the sunrise happens seems to make the sunrise more spectacular. On this clear day, the sun was just starting to hit Mount Patterson and the lake was so calm the sunrise was being reflected in Peyto Lake below.

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Moraine lake is one of the most spectacular lakes anywhere. The mountains surrounding the lake make for an incredible backdrop. Before the sun rose on this perfectly calm morning, the alpenglow lights the peaks of the mountains and brings the area to life!

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Seeing the tundra turn in Alaska is always stunning, so when we found this area high in the mountains of Canada we were so excited. It was high enough where there wasn’t grass and it was just tundra, and when it turned red in the fall, it made for a beautiful foreground for the surrounding mountains and glaciers!

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There are many spectacular lakes in Canada, and Maligne Lake is one of those. There is a special outcropping, called Spirit Island, on the lake, and here I can see that island through the forest on a clear afternoon.

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It is hard to describe just how awesome a large tidewater glacier is! In Glacier Bay National Park there are a number of really large glaciers that come all the way down to the water from high in the mountains.  This particular glacier has carved out a massive area that has in the last few hundred years filled in with sea water.  The expansiveness of the area and the grandeur of the glacier and mountains was quite the site to see!

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Clouds and fog in the mountains are fun because they add an element to the landscape. They come and go from the forest and create a different look all the time. I loved how thick the fog was in this forest, but yet the tops of the trees were still showing.

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In most mountain areas the fall time is a spectacular time to be there. The landscape comes to life with the different colors of leaves the trees turn. High in this meadow, all of the larch trees turned at the same time and created a stunning view leading up to the mountain peaks.

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Aspens are a beautiful tree that can grow in large groves. Finding the right grove is difficult for this type of shot though. I loved the spacing of the trees and how it allowed me to see deep into the forest.

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One of the largest and most impressive glaciers in Alaska is Hubbard Glacier. It is still growing while most of the glaciers are retreating. It’s hard to capture the glacier all in one shot because it is 6 miles wide!

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Mountains and fog go hand in hand. When the fog is thick and you can’t see, the fog is annoying. However, when that fog begins to clear it can create a dramatic scene. I love how the angle of the light makes it appear as if this is a black and white photo, but this was the natural light of the shot. The fog created a dramatic effect that really showed how many different ridges there were.

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I love how the way nature looks can change so quickly.  This scene was only this beautiful less than 20 seconds as the sun managed to squeeze between the clouds.  If you had been there just before or after, you likely would've kept going and not thought this scene as anything special.

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Sunrise in the Canadian Rockies is great, but it can be very hard to decide where to go. There are so many great lakes, it’s difficult to decide which lake to go to. One of the most famous lakes is Lake Louise, and on the super calm morning the mountains are Louise are reflected in the beautiful blue lake color.

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The landscape of Denali in Denali is mostly a green tundra. It does not have much color until later in July when the fireweed begins to bloom. I love how fireweed blooms in groups and brings more life to the valley.

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The amount of beautiful landscapes in Banff is amazing! It never gets old going to some places and seeing how differently they look in different seasons. This was early winter, and some of the water had started to freeze, but enough was not frozen that it created this beautiful scene!

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With all the beautiful lakes in the Canadian Rockies, it can be hard to choose which lake to go to for a sunset. I was happy I chose this lake on this evening, because I loved how the pink light on the mountain was being reflected and created the pink glow on the lake!

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There are some mornings that happen in nature that are hard to explain.  On this morning I just sat in one place and watched the clouds come and go around the mountains.  Eventually the entire mountain was showing and looked as if it was appearing from no where.  

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Seeing large tidal glaciers is a sight to see! Especially on a clear day when you can see the mountain tops of where the glaciers start from. This very large tidal glacier had many ice bergs surrounding the glacier on this calm day in Alaska.

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Glaciers in Alaska, and everywhere, are quickly receding.  Mendenhall glacier, in southeast Alaska, is no exception to that, and by 2080 they think it could be gone.  As it recedes, it drops ice bergs into the lake it has created as it retreats up the valley.  

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I love winter because you never know what each year will bring. Some years things freeze up hard, and some years they barely freeze at all. Thanks to a small opening at the bottom, I was able to crawl in behind this frozen waterfall and capture it from behind the ice. I love how it looks like the ice is cascading down on me!

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Being close to a glacier and having it tower over you is a neat experience. The thing about glaciers is that they are always moving, you just can’t see it because it is so slow. But sometimes part of the glacier will fall off into the ocean, and being close when that happens and hearing all the sounds it makes is incredible!

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Glaciers are a large powerful sheet of ice that slowly moves like a frozen waterfall. They tower above the ground, and are very impressive. I loved the jaggedness of the mountains, because they were above where the glaciers ever reached, and how the jagged the ice was as it moved and carved out the mountain.

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The lakes of the Canadian Rockies are spectacular. The colors, and the surrounding peaks of the mountains make for incredible sights, and photos. Lake Louise is one the most popular lakes to visit, and as the first light of the day is hitting the peaks, the whole area starts to come to life.

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It is hard to imagine how large a redwood tree is if you haven't seen one in person.  When walking around a forest full of redwoods I felt as small as an ant.  The splendor and size of the trees is hard to explain. 

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In Juneau, the Mendenhall glacier is not far from town. During the summer, the fireweed bloom creates an incredible foreground to the glacier and the large mountains around the glacier. And many years ago, this area would have been carved out by the glacier.

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The unfortunate fact about glaciers is that the majority of them are melting. When part of a glacier breaks off it is called calving. It is neat to see this happen, but also sad at the same time. The ice is so heavy that it makes thundering noises as it falls and crashes into the ocean.

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Reflections are always beautiful to me. However, after the first snowfall covered the trees, it really brought to life the different layers of the forest.

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I know I’ve said it before, but fall in Denali is my favorite place to be for the fall. Seeing the entire tundra turn red is simply incredible. Being back in the park when it hit its peak color made the landscape come to life.

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As I walked along in the river looking for photographic opportunities, this small falls caught my attention.  The way it looked as if the water came out of the rocks as it was surrounded by the fall colors in the trees created a beautiful scene. 

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Finding a forest full of color is not terribly difficult.  The hard part is finding a forest that has no single tree that is distracting from the rest of the trees.  The straightness and similarity of these trees struck me as I looked up walking through the forest.

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The lakes in the Canadian Rockies are spectacular! There are so many great lakes, and them being surrounded by spectacular mountains only makes them better! On this calm morning, the sun just starts to hit Caldron Peak and the surrounding mountains above Peyto Lake.

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In rain forest areas there is often fog or low lying clouds because of how much moisture is in the air. On this evening as the temperature begun to fall, the fog begun to thicken and created a nice mood around the waterfall.

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Nature is an amazing place. The beauty seems to be never ending. Many people would look at this pond and just see a pond. But if you look a little harder, you start to see how the rocks coming out of the water create a neat design and how the mountains in the background along with the reflection from the right angle create an amazing scene. These places exist everywhere if you just look a little deeper.

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Peyto lake is one of my favorite place in the Canadian Rockies. It looks very different in the different seasons. I was so happy when I timed it right one year and was there when the lake was melting in the spring and the color of the lake was incredible!

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Glaciers all over the world are melting at an incredible rate. Some glaciers are still very large, but I would have loved to see them even 50 years ago and how much larger they would have been. Being up close to this glacier and seeing the deep blue of the ice made me respect the glaciers even more.

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Reflections are one of my favorite types of landscape photos to take. But to get a large lake completely calm, it often takes many visits to see it completely calm. And on this calm evening, the last light was hitting the mountain peak and was a nice, peaceful scene.

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This was a very tall and impressive waterfall. I really liked the bottom of the waterfall and how the rocks separated the water. I took a long exposure to show just how the water moved over the rocks.

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Only on rare occasions is it as crystal clear as this day was.  Not having a single cloud in the sky always makes for a terrific day.  When I came across these antlers facing Denali, it was perfect.  There are so many antlers across the tundra, but few are as in good of shape.  Looking at Denali through the antlers made the mountain feel alive. 

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In the summer in Alaska the sun doesn't set in some places of Alaska. In southeast Alaska it does set, but in the middle of the summer it is not until very late at night. It was worth staying up to see this sunset in Juneau.

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Waking up near Denali mountain is kind of like looking for wildlife, you never know what you will see. Often times it is hidden in the clouds, but on the days it is not it is spectacular! As the sun was rising, the lake was calm leading up to Denali, and the view across wonder lake was spectacular!

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Being in the Smokey Mountains in the fall is a great time of year.  The temperatures are perfect, and the colors can be amazing for a few weeks!  There are many streams throughout the mountains, and in a calm pool the beautiful colors look like a painting.  

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Looking over Bryce Canyon after a recent snow storm is spectacular. The white snow and orange rock create a great contrast.  The storm was still trying to clear out in the morning after snowing 7 inches the day before. 

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The Yellowstone landscape is like no other on earth. The hot springs and thermals create such beauty that isn’t replicated anywhere. These waves are algae that survive in different temperatures and cause different colors as the water leaves the hot spring.

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Death Valley is a neat park in that there are numerous different types of landscapes.  It has very low points in the valleys and very high points in the mountains.  The sun was just starting to make it over the mountains when this picture was taken looking back over many different ridges.  

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During a short time of the day, around noon, something special happens in this canyon.  The opening of the canyon at the top is very small, and only right around noon, when the sun is directly above, will the light make it down into the canyon.  The canyon is so dark that the sun beams are visible all the way down and light up the canyon.  

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Large tidewater glaciers can only be found in Alaska in the U.S. Any glacier is neat, but large tidewater glaciers are incredible. Their size can be hard to distinguish because they are so large. Here the hubbard glacier curves down from the mountains and spreads out across the water.

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In the summer, the lakes in Canada come alive. They have spectacular color, and on calm days, the reflections with the mountains around are spectacular! Spirit island is a great place to go on a beautiful day, and I was excited the water was also calm to create this shot!

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Landscapes come to life in the fall. There are more colors and more dynamics that come into the scene in the fall. I’ve driven by this area many times, but seeing it for the first time in the fall made the area that much more beautiful to me.

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Fireweed are a beautiful flower that blooms later in the summer. Often times they grow together in a large group, and that really showcases their beauty. Here a large group was growing on the hillside up the mountain.

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All ice bergs are unique. Some are large and some are small. Depending on where the ice berg fell off the glacier determines the ice design that will be on that ice berg. This ice berg had lots of character and different shapes that made it look like it had been carved.

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Walking over frozen ice is always a little scary. But when there are beautiful frozen bubbles under the ice it makes it a little better. Seeing so many frozen methane bubbles in one area was incredible!

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Reflections in nature are one of my favorite things to photograph. They can be difficult to get because high in the mountains it is often windy, which doesn’t allow the water to be calm. I was very excited when I found this small pond hadn’t completely frozen over yet and allowed me to capture these magnificent peaks with a reflection!

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No matter where larches are in the fall, they make the landscape come to life. I found this small high meadow pond and wanted to come back when the larches had turned yellow. They didn’t disappoint and with them reflected in the pond the landscape came to life!

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Being up close to a tidewater glacier can make you feel real small. From a distance they look big, but when you get close and realize that it is hundreds of feet tall the scale of the glacier really comes into effect. It’s impressive that this much ice can move from the mountains to the see.

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Since most of the tops of the mountains were shrouded in fog, not much sun was reaching the valley floor in Cataloochee.  All of a sudden a little light came through and it landed on the only tree in the meadow.  As the tree now beamed with light, the area around the tree started to brighten up as well.  

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When first looking at this picture you would think it’s a glacier you’re looking at, but it’s actually a huge ice berg. I can’t imagine the waves that were created when this massive ice shelf fell off the glacier. Slowly but surely this ice berg was drifting away and out to sea.

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This bay in Glacier Bay National Park is large and impressive. The John Hopkins glacier comes down for miles from the mountains to reach the bay.  As our earth warms and glaciers retreat, we are left to only pictures and our imagination to how even more grand this scene once was with glaciers coming down from all sides of the mountains to reach the bay.

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I love seeing glaciers, because everyone is so different that the next.  Some glaciers aren't very blue, others are hundreds of feet deep, some are so covered in rock sediment you can't hardly see the glacier, and others look super smooth. I loved how blue this glacier was, in Glacier Bay National Park, and how defined the different layers of the glacier were.

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Spring is always an exciting time of the year. Everyone is excited to be outside after the winter, and nature really comes to life. As the snow starts to melt off the mountains, its runoff flows to the valleys and helps water and bring to life wild flowers and other plants.

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Alaska is an incredible state to see from car, train, boat, and even plane. Seeing glaciers from above gives you a much large appreciation for their size and power.  Flying directly up this glacier let me really see exactly how powerful these ice waterfalls are in carving out the mountains.

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Ice bergs come from glaciers when they become detached from the glacier. I loved the perspective I was able to get to show this ice berg up close with where it came from many hundreds of years ago.

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In the fall, the Smokies becomes a colorful land of trees.  They turn many different colors, but a bright yellow maple tree is hard to beat.  At the peak of its colors, this tree is ignited by the setting sun. 

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Any time of the year is a good time to see Peyto Lake. I don’t even have a favorite time of year because each is so good. In the fall as plants change to yellow, the lake still has a great color to it as the sun hits the mountain peak.

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It's not often you get to see a glacier at the sea, and see where it started from in the mountains.  They often curve down the mountains and make only half or less of the glacier visible.  Being able to see over 10 miles back into the mountains to where the ice I was looking at started hundreds of years ago made me realize just how amazing glaciers really are.

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I had never seen a fogbow until this morning in 2016.  It was zero degrees outside, and a thick fog covered the valley.  Just on the edge of the fog there was enough light getting in that this beautiful fog bow revealed itself.  Hiking through the snow covered valley, I found two hoar frost covered trees and framed them inside the beauty of the fog bow.

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The mountains in Glacier seem as if they rise out of nowhere.  They are all very large, and around every corner is a different towering mountain.  St. Mary's lake adds to the effect and allows one to really see just how straight up the mountains can go.  

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On the North Carolina coast, you can see the sun set for a long time over the lakes.  The silhouetted trees created a nice veil for the sun, and a duck flew over to get back to its lake before all the light was gone.

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In the middle of a lake, a group of cypress trees grow away from anything else.  This group of trees creates a great foreground for the rising sun over the lake.

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The endless snow valleys in Yellowstone can create a dramatic scene in the winter.  This is not a black and white photograph, it's just nature's colors.  With the snow perfect, and the shadows casting off the hill tops, it almost looks like a scene from a different planet.  The lonely tree gives the photo life and creates a different feel for the image.  Nature has the best imagination!

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When approaching a large tidal glacier it can be difficult to tell just how huge it is. But once you get close enough and the ice wall in front of you is dwarfing you, its huge scale really reveals itself.

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With a little chill in the air, I woke up to a remarkable scene.  The sun was just starting to rise and hit the tops of the mountains.  With a low lying cloud bank well below the peaks, I was able to watch the sun rise on a backcountry adventure.  

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I could spend days being around and looking at ice bergs. It’s amazing how different each one is and looks nothing like any other berg. Some are light blue, dark blue, almost see through, and some are all white. When this ice berg was back lit it really showed off many of the different colors the ice can be.

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The Grand Tetons are a beautiful mountain range.  They are young and still very jagged.  When the first light of the day hits the peaks, the whole valley begins to light up. 

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Glaciers are a large and powerful force of nature. It’s takes thousands of years to create glaciers, and once they get large enough they begin to slowly move downhill due to gravity. This glacier had carved out a large valley between two mountain peaks.

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On most nights the sun will set behind this mountain and hit the clouds high above the ridge.  Because the clouds were lower this night, the light reflected off the clouds and ignited the ridge with orange light.

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There is just something special about seeing the first light of the day from a beautiful natural place.  The Grand Teton Range is a spectacular young mountain range, and you know the day has begun when the first light hits the Grand.  

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Most of the iconic shots of Denali are from the north side. I’ve taken lots from that side and it is stunning for sure. However, the south view is much more jagged and looks nothing like the north view. Any side of this mountain is impressive though.

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Winter sunrises can create a dramatic contrast with the snow. When it is real cold, the hoar frost adds to the contrast and can create a beautiful sparkle in the trees. The light is just different in the winter than the summer at sunrise.

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Seeing a geyser erupt is always a neat experience. There are certain geysers that are hard to predict when they will erupt, but those are some of my favorites. I’d only seen Bee Hive geyser erupt once in my life before this day, and it was so memorable I really wanted to see it again. My timing was never right, because there was no knowing when it would erupt. But when I saw it begin to erupt, I ran to it and was able to admire its beauty and capture it with a rainbow!

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Light is key to creating a moving photo. I had looked at this range hundreds of times over the course of 10 years. I hardly stopped to look at it anymore because I knew what it looked like and I got in a hurry. This morning, though, the range came to life with the morning light and I had to stop and take it in.

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One of the best places in North America to see glaciers is in Alaska.  Many people will see them from a boat or their car, but not as many will take a plane to see them.  On a clear day when all the glaciers and mountains are showing in their glory is worth any price to see. It isn't a sight that can be seen elsewhere, and a birds eye view of a glacier is a memory no one forgets.

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This ice berg was around the size of a football field. I can only imagine the wave that was caused when this huge ice berg became detached from the glacier. As this huge ice berg heads out to sea, it made all other ice bergs look small.

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In the winter in the Canadian Rockies, rivers often freeze completely over. I was surprised to still see this river flowing, and as the sun was setting I took a wide angle shot to capture the whole scene of the river flowing through the mountains in the winter.

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There are numerous incredible scenes in the Yosemite valley.  It's hard not to be mesmerized by the glory of it all.  As the day was beginning to end at the end of the valley, this beautiful scene presented itself.  

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The rolling mountains of the Smokies look like they are never ending at times.  Mountains just seem to keep appearing if it is a real clear day.  Hiking along the Appalachian Trail there are some incredible scenic points, and on this clear day I could see for miles and miles.

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The only way to experience fall in Denali is to be there yourself.  Watching literally everything turn red is crazy.  The plants that turn red are some of the most dull plants all summer, and then for one week they light up.  The fall in Denali is the prettiest fall I have ever seen.  

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After years and years of the ocean pounding this rock, a hole has opened in the middle.  As I was walking back through, it created a beautiful outlook of what it sees every day.  

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To create a canyon like this it took thousands of years.  Washing and eroding hard rock is a very long process.  As it eroded, fine sand particles gathered on this ledge and with a little more help was made to look like a never ending sand waterfall. 

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Hiking high into the mountains gives you a very different perspective than from the valley. When I got near the top of the mountain, and above the glacier, I looked back down valley. It was beautiful, but also sad because I knew once upon a time all those valleys had large glaciers in them.

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A quick glance at this photo and you will see a large glacier and it's blue ice.  You would think the ice looks large, but you wouldn't know for sure.  A deeper look at the photo and you will see small harbor seals that look like ants, and then the ice would feel massively larger that what you originally thought.

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Geysers still erupt as often in the winter as they do in the summer.  In the winter it is much more evident when one is erupting because there is much more steam involved.  As I was walking around, Grand Geyser began erupting on this -24 degree morning. 

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Winter in a geyser basin is spectacular on a cold morning!  The colors of the pools are brighter and the steam more obvious.  This small hot spring made for a great foreground of the rest of the geyser basin.  

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Half Dome is a terrific mountain.  After all other mountains have lost the light, somehow light still finds Half Dome.  With the river calm and the mountain glowing, the reflection cast by Half Dome was not soon going to be forgotten. 

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