The Mountain Says, "Rejected!"

This is the lake below Wheeler Peak, the highest point in New Mexico. The first picture was taken with thoughts of a beautiful summit. The second photo is one hour later with fears of being struck by lightning. And of course we got to climb within a thousand feet of the summit before the storm clouds popped over the ridge.

Great Sand Dunes NP

More images from this summer. These are the Great Sand Dunes along the Sangre de Christo Mountains. They're a pretty crazy formation: a sandy oasis amidst a mountain desert. And for some reason people like to get a running start and roll down the mounds. When I saw this, I was like "Wow, that's some redneck shit. It's like we're in Arkansas!" So I approach these guys after getting shots of them in all their glory...and get this...they're from Arkansas! True Story.

The Crestones

I finally got around to editing the photos from our summer trip to the Crestone Group in the Sangre de Christo Mountains in Southern Colorado. It was an amazing trip, but a bit too early in the season (June) and we had to turn back at around 13,000 feet because of poor snow conditions. It was still very mystical, as the last photo will show. Now, I'll just have to go back...damn!

Little Bird Complex

These little birds where chasing this crow around Murray Park the other day. I guess it's not the size of the bird in the fight but the size of the fight in the bird.

Elk River Debauchery

Some images from last weekends booze cruise along the Elk River in Missouri. You would have thought Michael would have known better than to get three sheets to the wind with a group of photographers, but I guess not.

Oh yeah, and that is a diaper floating in the Elk. Gotta love the white trash along Missouri waterways!

The group photo courtesy of Nathan .

FYI - The pups name is now officially Smoke.