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The Cathedral Group at sunrise in Grand Teton National Park, viewed from the Cathedral Group turnout near String Lake. The Cathedral Group consists of Grand Teton, Mount Owen, and Teewinot Mountain, the peaks immediately south of Cascade Canyon. Fritiof Fryxell - the park's first naturalist- wrote, "These peaks have been called the Cathedral Group... more evident here than in many of the great cathedrals of men is the gothic note. It is seen in the profiles of the countless firs and spruces congregated like worshippers on the lower slopes; it reappears higher in the converging lines of spire rising beyond spire; it attains supreme expression in the figures of the peaks themselves that, towering above all else, with pointed summits direct one's vision and thoughts yet higher."

I specialize in fine art nature photography, with particular emphasis on the U.S. west including Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. My goal in photographing the natural world is to overcome the inherent limitations of traditional photography to produce images with depth and perspective that artistically represent the beauty of our natural environment. The human eye is far more capable than any camera at seeing the beauty of a natural scene. I strive to overcome that gap. The sense of awe inspired by nature's magnificence is what I attempt to translate from nature to every photographic image I produce. As a discipline, photography necessitates a delicate balance between skilled technical merit and artistic vision. Few artistic...