This website contains a wide-range of photo selections, all performed with digital SLR cameras. I currently use the Canon Rebel Xsi, the Canon 20D SLR,  and a Nikon D40x SLR, with a wide-array of lens type. 

          "Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes..."         —Henri Cartier Bresson.  


Dayhiking in Washington, Oregon, and Montana : Photo Journals

Photo Story 3 movie

The bittermonk at the Virgelle Ferry Crossing site on the Missouri River

Washington State Gallery ( more in Archives section to the right ):

 
Washington Coastal Beaches, Westport to North Cove
Common Beauty :  Photos of Nothing
Upper Elwha River, Elwha Dam, and Elwha Lake
Dash Point Giclees
Rialto Beach: The Wild Coast
 
MONTANA GALLERIES:  <  most recent photos  >
 
The Ghost Town of Bannack
Blodgett Canyon, Autumn Colors
Gibbons Pass and Hogan's Meadow
Ravalli County Fair, Candid Shots, Summer 2007
Mill Creek
Rock Creek Gorge
Ward Mountain
Bitterroots & Sapphires, to Anaconda
Bitterroot Valley Collection
Montana, Idaho, Washington Region 
Arlee Pow-Wow Dance Contest, 2007
Camas Lake
Ducks Along a Frozen Bitterroot Valley Pond
The Arctic Snap in Blodgett Canyon
The Mission Mountains
Como Peaks, Mill Creek Trail, and a Bitterroot Sunset
Bass Creek's 'Old Log Pond' 
Bear Creek, Bitterroot's Range, and the Full Moon setting
Kootenai, Skalkaho, and Trapper Creek wintry scenes
Buffalo Jump ( southwestern MT) and the Madison River Pelicans
Mules and Pelicans, Part II
Monotone Series #1
Monotone Series #2
Mostly Monotones #3
Mixed Montana Monotones #4
The Big Empty: Along the Drylands of North Central Montana
Late Autumn Marsh, and Baker, Middle, and Gem Lakes, West Fork, MT
Silver EFex Monotones
December 08 Montana Monotones Collection
Forest Service Lookouts of the Bitterroot Range
Montana Monotones January 2009
 
PHOTO STORY 3 .wmv's ( view in Windows Media Player ):
Key Peninsula Sculptor  Tom Torren's Studio
Steilacoom Marina: Photo Story (*.wmv file )
Spider Lake: Photo Story  (*.wmv file )
Silver Lake: Photo Story (* .wmv file )
 tHE vANISHING tRADESMAN (*.wmv file )
'Garden Tour', for my sister Barb
Tacoma Landmarks and Tideflats Locations
 
 
Selected Portrait Portfolio Collections below:
 
 
ARCHIVAL ( dated ) Galleries:
*the links below progress from my older photos to photos shot in Washington State in 2007:
 

 

"A photographer who is able to communicate intention consistently is said to have a 'creative style'."  [ Galen Rowell ]

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.  What is essential is invisible to the eye."  [ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ]

"Face it: everything's been seen, and everything's been shot.  So how do you make a different picture...?" [ Joe McNally ]          Email the author of this site

 

"The trail is never longer than your next step..."—the Bitter Monk.

 

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