Only a real nerd can truly appreciate this picture. It's an alluvial fan in Death Valley, but the different colors of each lobe represent a separate debris flow that brought material down off the mountain with the gray one being the most recent. That's what a geology course will do to a person.

Flowers in Death Valley. No, they aren't natural, they were growing in a flower pot outside a gas station. See how photographs can be made to look so much better than real life?

Sand dunes at Death Valley. I think I like the bottom picture best b/c of the angle.

Some badlands in Death Valley. I always thought the term badlands was just a generic term to describe a really harsh desert environment, but have now learned that it's a very specific geologic feature pertaining to very fine sediments that are constantly shifting so vegetation never gets a chance to take root. If I learned it you have to too.

This is at the Grand Canyon a couple of years ago. My friend saw it and said it's "very Alfred Hitchcock meets Edgar Allen poe." I assume she meant that as a compliment.

A friend of mine actually took this one. It's more fall leaves from our trip to Brian Head last fall.

Another flower shot. I probably have too many of these, but I still think they look good so deal with it.

Same Joshua tree, same sunset, but I can't decide which picture I like better so I decided to post both and let you decide (I know, they're really not that different). One thing about living in the Mojave Desert is that you see stuff like this all the time.

I've been validated! My brother called me today to tell me that somebody purchased a few copies of this photo from his ebay store. I was pretty much just screwing around when I took this picture, but thought it turned out good. He put a nice border on it, and added a quote from Henry David Thorough that says something along the lines of 'some men fish all their lives without realizing that it is not the fish they are after.' I have to say that it's probably the quote that sold these, rather than the picture itself, but nonetheless I can take some pride in knowing that I'm not alone in thinking that some of my pictures are good.

I went with a group of friends to Brian Head last fall, for a weekend of mountain biking and hiking. We had a lot of fun. The timing was just perfect as it was within those couple of weeks when the leaves start to turn, but before the winds had blown them all off the trees. I love it in the late afternoon when the sunlight hits the leaves just right. My brother improved this one greatly in photoshop because there used to be the bumper of a truck in the background. He removed it.

Here's another picture from Death Valley. It was supposedly one of the wettest springs in 100 years so there were a LOT of wildflowers in bloom (as you can see).

I took this picture a few years ago at my sister's wedding. I can't really say why I like it so much unless it's because it doesn't seem as much about the bride as most wedding pictures are. She's in it yes, but it's not as much of a posed moment so it captures a different aspect of the wedding day.

While I'm on the subject, here's another picture that I took that day. It'd look better if there were actually leaves on the trees, and no smog, and if I'd been holding the camera straight, but you have to work with what you're given, right?

I took this when I was in Salt Lake City for a friend's wedding last December. I've always loved the architecture of the mormon temple there. It's even more amazing when I think that it was built without all the modern technology we have. That's one reason why I'd like to go to Europe some day. I think I'd be even more amazed at some of the buildings there that have stood for several centuries.

This one's really not that cool, but the water really was this color. It's right below Panguitch Lake when apparently there was a lot of algae growing in the water.

This was in Yellowstone. Sadly, we couldn't find the pot of gold.

I took this one while I was hiking near Bryce Canyon, UT. It would probably look better if I cropped it some, but I liked the way the light was coming through and hitting the shrubs.

This is one of my favorite photos. Anyone who's been flyfishing on the Green River during the month of May will understand why. The crazy thing is that every bush along the river looked like this that day.

This was in Death Valley. I had just walked from the top of this dune with a friend of mine. I thought that the shading looked cool. Especially with the footprints we left along the ridge.

Just a dead tree we hiked by at the Grand Canyon a couple of years ago. I thought it looked cool, but I don't know if I framed it right, or if the lighting is good for the picture.