My wife and I live in Sedona, Arizona, and we often have dramatic weather around us - clouds and sun blending in land, sky, and water. The two-story windows in our living room give us a unique perspective for absorbing ourselves in this particular scenery - they are like having nature's presence in our home. In this picture these three presences combine these living presence of nature's dynamic light and darkness, the foreground trees, and the snow-dusted rocky crags in the background. It's...

This photograph was made on a cool October afternoon in Eugene, Oregon, and my wife and I were sitting outside on our porch and listening to the gentle music of the water in our nearby fountain. As we sat there, we enjoyed the calm feeling of the warmth of the sun shining on us through the trees. My heart felt a quiet joy as I noticed my soft breathing, and I looked around the quiet scene around me. Then I noticed the hummingbirds coming to the sugar water feeder a few paces away from us,...

In my enjoyment of photography, I look for not just shapes, but light, shadow, colors, and textures as well. For instance, I was eating...