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Photographer based in Southeastern Idaho specializing in wildlife and landscape photography.

14/05/2026

I spend most of my time photographing landscapes and wildlife I know well and find beautiful. Places where I understand the light, the terrain, and where to put myself. Sunset composition in an unfamiliar environment is a different problem entirely.
I was in Pocatello and the sky was doing something worth pointing a camera at. The ISU Pillars were nearby, and what I was really trying to work out was how to give a sunset some structure when there's no sagebrush, no ridgeline, no wildlife to anchor it. The columns turned out to be the answer — they break the sky into panels and give the eye somewhere to travel before it finds the horizon.
It's not the kind of image I'd normally make. That's exactly why I made it.

13/05/2026

This ram was not interested in stopping. He was moving his group across the road and up the bluffs on the other side of the National Elk Refuge, and when he paused for a moment the RF 200-800mm was ready.
This image and The Lookout were taken in the same session on the same stretch of road. Two sides of the same animal. Both available as fine art prints at the link below.

07/05/2026

Not every shot from a day in the field makes it to the print store. Sometimes the most honest image from a trip is this one. The truck pulled over on Refuge Road in the National Elk Refuge, clouds sitting on the ridge, and sagebrush running all the way to the tree line.
This is where the work happens before the work happens. Picking a pullout, reading the weather, figuring out whether the light is going to cooperate or whether you're just going to sit with a good view for a while. That part isn't glamorous but it's most of it.
The Frontier has become as much a part of the process as the camera bag in the back seat.

06/05/2026

I was mountain biking a dirt road outside Lander, Wyoming when I stopped to take a break. Turns out I'd stopped right next to this American robin, who had been perched on that fence post long before I arrived and had no particular interest in leaving.
Most people don't think of the robin as a wild bird. Backyard bird. Lawn bird. But out here in Red Canyon he was doing what robins in the rural West actually do; working the margins of grazing country, using whatever high ground is available, completely at home in a landscape most people pass through without looking.

The blue of a Wyoming spring sky against the orange of his breast. Available as a fine art archival paper print or aluminum metal print at the link below.

04/05/2026

It's the start of a brand new adventure! Atomic Cowboy Photography is now live.

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921 S 8th Ave

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