The CountdownWhen the sun comes up and cuts the fog surrounding the bald cypress trees of the southern bayou, you have mere seconds to get photographs before the misty conditions evaporate

Lava breaks out along the shores of Hawaii in molten fingers at dawn

and we were left to just soak in the evening

But after the sun goes down

takes in a rainbow on the dried lava of Kilauea

You don't know someone until you've plucked the quills of these cholla "teddy bear" cactus out of their behind

light bounces off the sandstone walls creating a wonderful glow

The end of the most prolific day of shooting in my life

A tremendous flow of lava erupts from the Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland

Light piercing through the giant redwood trees of Northern California creates wonderful graphic patterns in the coastal fog

and soaking

I learned that the European photographers like shooting with the sun to their backs

I'm never happy to be delayed