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Equal parts disarming and sanguine. Loves cheese and theater. Go Birds. Past: Photojournalist, 44/46 White House, Oscars, 18F, Super Bowl, Women’s World Cup, Penn State.
Water rushes over brown boulders in the middle of a river that’s flanked by green ferns and trees on either side.
👋🏻 Next up in my weekly series of images I made in our gorgeous national parks.
📍 Great Smoky Mountains National Park
🗓️ October 2024
🏞️ Backstory: Beautiful rushing streams, the dainty waterfalls, or the wild, and dreamy hills that go on for days.
#BlueSkyMonday
#NaturePhotography
Millions of gallons of water pour over a tall granite slab. Vernal Falls has green trees to the left of it and a tall peak above it.
👋🏻 Next in my weekly series of images I made in our gorgeous national parks.
📍 Yosemite National Park
🗓️ April 2018
🏞️ Backstory: You climb 600 stone steps on the Mist Trail on your way to the top of Vernal Falls. You definitely get soaked. Check out that wee rainbow.
#BlueSkyMonday
A majestic mountain appears blue in the distance behind a tree topped green ridge line. A small boulder covered brook trickles in the lower left side of the image.
👋🏻 Next up in my series of our gorgeous national parks.
📍 Mount Ranier National Park
🗓️ September 2021
🏞️ Backstory: Nothing prepares you for that 1st time you round the bend on WA-410 & BOOM the mountain appears right in front of you, seemingly out of nowhere. She’s majestic.
#BlueSkyMonday
#Nature
3 waterfalls stream from a single river, pouring into a fern covered canyon.
👋🏻 Next up in my weekly National Park series.
📍 Olympic National Park
🗓️ June 2024
🏞️ Backstory: From the mossy, dreamy Hoh Rainforest to Rialto Beach’s striking sea stacks, to this stunning waterfall trio at Sol Duc Falls, Olympic NP truly contains multitudes.
#BlueSkyMonday
#NaturePhotography
A bright orange sunrise begins to glow over Yosemite Valley. Bridalveil Falls flows to the rights of the picture, while El Capitan towers to the left.
👋🏻 Next up in my weekly series of images I made in our gorgeous national parks.
📍 Yosemite National Park
🗓️ April 2018
🏞️ Backstory: The sun rises behind Half Dome, framed by El Capitan & Bridalveil Falls. Having visited 35 of our 63 national parks…Yosemite easily has my heart.
#BlueSkyMonday
#Nature
50 foot green fern walls on either side of shallow creek bed.
👋🏻 Next up in my weekly national park series.
📍Redwood National & State Parks
🗓️ June 2024
🏞️ Backstory: Fern Canyon is a quiet, easy ramble along a shallow creekbed w/ 30-50 ft fern walls. Zoom in to see the tiny people. (You might recognize it from Jurassic Park!)
#BlueSkyMonday #NaturePhotography
A bright pink flamingo stands by themselves on a sandy patch of ground next to a small green body of water.
When I wake up in my own pink world, I get up outta bed and wave to my homegirls.
📍 San Diego Zoo
🗓️ May 2025
#naturephotography
#animalphotography
A bright blue lake is in front of tall mountains in Glacier National Park. The sky is blue with big white puffy clouds. There is green trees to the right of the mountains.
👋🏻 Former photojournalist; next in my weekly series of images I made in our gorgeous national parks:
📍 Glacier National Park
🗓️ June 2024
🏞️ Backstory: Glacier is a vast, wide, sweeping park that engulfs you in its majesty and beauty. Going to the Sun Road = must do.
#BlueSkyMonday
#NaturePhotography
A stream trickles through a canyon with 30 foot green fern-covered walls.
“I am green and it'll do fine. It's beautiful, and I think it's what I want to be.” - Kermit the Frog
📍 Fern Canyon, Redwood National Park
#BlueSkyArtShow #Green #NaturePhotography
A small stone tan house with a blue roof and a red door sits at the base of the Scottish highland mountains.
You will never leave my heart behind.
📍 The Highlands, Scotland
🗓️ May 2024
#landscapephotography
#naturephotography
A golden brown horse with a cream colored mane chews on grass on a green hill with a blue sky behind it.
👋🏻 Next up in my weekly series of images I made in our gorgeous national parks.
📍 Theodore Roosevelt National Park
🗓️ July 2024
🏞️ Backstory: TRNP is home to 200 feral horses, 30k bison, and a bazillion prairie dogs, plus a 😍 36 mile scenic road through the park.
#BlueSkyMonday #NaturePhotography
Tall green mountains with a sun flare. Bright blue sky with wispy clouds.
“Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
📍 Macchu Pichu, Peru
#BlueskyArtShow
#Earth
Bluebells bloom in the forest.
Don’t want no other shade of blue but you.
📍 Harrogate, England
🗓️ April 2024
#landscapephotography
#naturephotography
A living room window with nine panes and a white shutter. The view is looking out over snow-covered trees and bushes outside.
For #WindowsOnWednesday a view from the living room of a cold, icy calm snowscape after a sudden winter storm.
📍Dupont Circle, Washington, DC
Half Dome glows orange as the sun sets. Blue sky above the dome and bright green grass and trees below it.
👋🏻 Next up in my weekly series of images I made in our gorgeous national parks.
📍 Yosemite National Park
🗓️ June 2020
🏞️ Backstory: Strolling through Ahwahnee Meadows at sunset. The blue sky, orange sun against Half Dome, and bright green meadows took my breath away.
#BlueSkyMonday #naturephotography
Nighttime. A cloudy sky with millions of stars reflects over a lake. Two tall trees are to the right of the lake.
"Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning." 💫
📍 Ekö, Sweden
#BlueSkyArtShow #Dream
@blueskyartshow.bsky.social
Bright pink flower bursts like a firework against a green plant background. 2 little pink buds are to its right.
Cause baby you’re a firework!
📍 Waimea Valley, Hawaii
🗓️ June 2010
#landscapephotography #naturephotography
A bright blue sky with wispy clouds. Green, tree covered mountains reflect in a teal blue lake.
👋🏻 Former photojournalist. Next up in my weekly series:
📍 North Cascades National Park
🗓️ July 2024
🏞️ Backstory: Come for Diablo Lake, stay for the gorgeous topography and waterfalls all along State Rt. 20, the main park route. From snow capped peaks to ragged mountains, it has it all. #BlueSkyMonday
A rugged landscape featuring yellow, pink, and gray rock. A bright blue sky above full of wispy white clouds. Bright green grass at the bottom of the canyon.
👋🏻 Former photojournalist. Next up in my weekly series:
📍 Badlands National Park
🗓️ July 2022
🏞️ Backstory: Badlands was a last minute add at a friend’s insistence. The bold, bright colors in the park feel like a Lewis Carroll story; when we got to this bit I half expected to see the Cheshire Cat.
A long peach colored flower with a burst of red and small water drops.
The flowers burst with color on Oahu, and this one reminded me of a prom dress or quinceañera gown.
📍 Waimea Valley, Hawaii
🗓️ June 2010
A granite mountain reflects in a pristine still lake. It is surrounded by evergreen trees and there is a blue sky with white clouds above it.
👋🏻 Former photojournalist / current NPS fan. Next up in my weekly series:
📍 Yosemite National Park
🗓️ June 2019
🏞️ Backstory: Mirror Lake can be hit or miss for a reflection shot because, whelp, sometimes it has water and sometimes not. Luckily it was a picture perfect bluebird sky day. #BlueSkyMonday
The sky is ablaze in oranges, purples, and yellows as the sun sets over the dark blue ocean with white waves crashing on black boulders in the forefront.
Winter sunsets in Ocean Beach just hit different.
📍 Sunset Cliffs, San Diego
🗓️ Jan. 2021
A light fog rolls in across the steel bridge, which is surrounded by green trees.
👋🏻 Former photojournalist / current NPS fan. Next up in my weekly series:
📍 New River Gorge National Park
🗓️ Sept. 2024
🏞️ Backstory: What’s great is you get 3 national parks in 1 in the newest National Park designee: lush beauty, excellent hikes, and a historical town still intact inside the park.
An image of a white sand dune with a blue cloudy sky above it and green shrubs below it.
👋🏻 Former photojournalist / current NPS fan. Next up in my weekly series:
📍 White Sands National Park
🗓️ March 2021
🏞️ Backstory: On my 1st visit a classic New Mexico monsoon rolled in out of nowhere. (Bc of course it did.) While waiting for a rainbow, the light danced brightly on the dune ridge line.
👋🏻 Former photojournalist and current National Parks enthusiast here. Starting a weekly series of images I made over the years.
First up:
📍 Yosemite National Park
🗓️ April 2018
Backstory: Visited for the first time, and on our last day we awoke to a fresh dusting of snow in the Valley.
