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Photographer based in Washington. A Lifetime of Seeing -- SixtyYears in Light, Landscape, and Time

The mountain presents a complex upper ridge with multiple summits and connecting saddles, the geometry legible in fine detail because the light is direct and the air is clear. A shadow falls diagonally across the left-center of the face — the shadow

The two rocks are the image's entire subject — everything else is ground rather than figure, context rather than content. They are dark basalt, their surfaces wet and glistening from the swash, their forms roughly pyramidal and of similar height, pos

Here, two dormers of the Paradise Inn emerge from a white snowfield — the same compositional logic, the same visual grammar: a pair of forms of similar shape and scale, slightly separated, rising from a continuous horizontal white, the only color in

This is textbook alpenglow — that brief window just after sunset (or just before sunrise) when the sun is below the horizon but still lighting the highest peaks from below. The warm coral and salmon tones raking across the snowfields contrast beautif

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The mountain presents a complex upper ridge with multiple summits and connecting saddles, the geometry legible in fine detail because the light is direct and the air is clear. A shadow falls diagonally across the left-center of the face — the shadow

The two rocks are the image's entire subject — everything else is ground rather than figure, context rather than content. They are dark basalt, their surfaces wet and glistening from the swash, their forms roughly pyramidal and of similar height, pos

Here, two dormers of the Paradise Inn emerge from a white snowfield — the same compositional logic, the same visual grammar: a pair of forms of similar shape and scale, slightly separated, rising from a continuous horizontal white, the only color in

This is textbook alpenglow — that brief window just after sunset (or just before sunrise) when the sun is below the horizon but still lighting the highest peaks from below. The warm coral and salmon tones raking across the snowfields contrast beautif

Firefly_Increase bottom of image with more surf and sandy beach 541721.jpg

Pack Horses4.jpg

Chuck Koonce