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The Twelve — A Yearly Portfolio

Impetus. Palaver Point, Antarctica Twelve for Twentyfive
A Gallery from 2025. Highlighting the Great Basin, Antarctica, and Zambia.

Coordinated color. Blue Grosbeak, Los Chisos Basin, Big Bend National Park, TX, USA Twelve for Twentyfour
A Gallery from 2024. Highlighting the Great Basin, Mojave Desert, and Big Bend region of west Texas.

Departing. The moon breaks the ring, Annularity 2023, Diamond Valley, NV, USA Twelve for Twentythree
A Gallery from 2023. Highlighting White Sands, northern Nevada, and a life-changing excursion to Antarctica.

Morning patrol. A South American Gray Fox (Lycalopex griseus) in sparse grasses of the Atacam Desert, Chile. Twelve for Twentytwo
A Gallery from 2022. Highlighting northern Nevada, Patagonia, and the great Atacama Desert.

Playa horizons. Black Rock Desert, NV, USA Twelve for Twentyone
A Gallery from 2021. Highlighting the beauty of the Great Basin Desert and the Eastern Sierra.

Revealed. Intimate scene of patterned ground, Mesquite Dunes, Death Valley, CA, USA Twelve for Twenty
A Gallery from 2020. Highlighting the Eastern Sierra and Death Valley, along with the seasonal woodlands of the western Great Basin.

One. Mud Meadows, Great Basin Desert, NV, USA Twelve for Nineteen
A Gallery from 2019. Highlighting the light of western North America.

Canyon highlight. Woodfords Canyon, West Fork of Carson River, CA, USA Twelve for Eighteen
A Gallery from 2018. Highlighting the Tahoe Region, the western Great Basin, and an adventure in Iceland.

Arroyo dawn Twelve for Seventeen
A Gallery from 2017. Highlights from the Great Basin Desert and the eastern Sierra.


Wildlife – International

Words cannot express the character of the Savannah Elephant. Even as they struggle for survival, they exude wisdom and community, expressing most clearly that some places would be fine without us.

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Moving out. A parade of Savannah Elephants at dawn at the floodplain of the Luangwa River, Zambia
The graze. A Savannah Elephant works the forest, Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambia
Ruffage. Savannah Elephant, Luangwa River, Zambia
Reaching. A Savannah Elephant keeps the branches at a measured height, Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambia
Morning up. Savannah Elephant grazing along a distributary of the Zambezi River, Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambia
Evening cross. A Savannah Elephant wades a distributary pond on the Zambezi River, Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambia
Generations. Savannah Elephants, Luangwa River, Zambia
Dusted. Sediment self-care with a Savannah Elephant, Luangwa River, Zambia
Curious friends. Savannah Elephant calf approaches a young Baboon, Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambia
Bright eye. Savannah Elephant strolls the forest, Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambia
Dry season. A Savannah Elephant in the sands of the Luangwa River floodplain, Zambia
No words. A Savannah Elephant bull retreats at dawn, Luangwa River, Zambia

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