Favorite Places

Santa Catalina Mountains, Tucson, Arizona

Boulder Beach in Acadia National Park is one of several rocky beaches and granite outcroppings in the park that hold photographic appeal

Yaquina Head in Oregon is a spectacular place to witness the natural drama that happens when ocean meets land

Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia

Bond Falls State Park, Michigan

Formed by flooding of the Missouri River in 1881, Lake Manawa is the centerpiece of this 1,529-acre nature area located in Council Bluffs, Iowa

Spirit Island is one of the most iconic locations in Alberta, surrounded by emerald waters, pristine conifers and rugged snow-capped peaks

Theodore Roosevelt National Park features a unique landscape of channeled cliffs, gullies, hoodoos, caprocks, wind-swept prairie grasses and dome-shaped hills

Located in central Colorado, the drive to Mount Evans is a continuous spectacle, with opportunities for both landscape and wildlife photography

Photographing this iconic feature of Lake Tahoe

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee

Petit Jean Mountain, Petit Jean State Park, Arkansas

White Mountains, New Hampshire

Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon

Unique for its bogs and wetlands, Black Moshannon State Park is secluded and surrounded by a 43,000-acre state forest, ideal for landscape photography

Best times and locations to photograph in Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, Michigan

Photographing Courthouse Rock, a formation of clay, sandstone and volcanic ash towering above the open prairie near Bridgeport, Nebraska

Tips for photographing Bow Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

St. John, Virgin Islands National Park

Coyote Gulch at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, offers photogenic views of natural arches above a present-day watercourse