Like those evocative Japanese paintings of yore, so far across the Pacific...if only they could have visited it as it was then, and returned to tell the tale.

Captured by me in the Olympic Peninsula: "Aerial Perspective".

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Somehow this is one of my favorite shots I've ever captured...maybe because it reminds me of what I dreamed life in The North was like when I was a child...or maybe because the Olympic Peninsula is just that beautiful when the air is clear and the days are long...

Taken by me one July in Cascadia: "New Terrain".

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What so many people imagine a summer to be...yet so few, in the haze of heat and murk down below, get to experience. For this is Earth at its most elevated.

Captured one July in the Hayden Valley of Yellowstone: "Summer Dreaming".

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A moment when the sky itself is at once endless and haunting, and a breeze of summer air, somehow heavy yet also light, makes you feel like "God is in the Wind".

Captured under a supercell thunderstorm near Devil's Tower, Wyoming.

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Paradoxical, how being suffused in low clouds can make you feel like you've risen above it all, yet it's true...

A vibe captured by me, one December afternoon in Santa Monica.

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