Like fellow lovers of landscape photography, I’ve spent many a season roaming the crown jewels of our National Park System. Starting in the 1970s in Yosemite and Death Valley, then Grand Canyon and Utah’s Grand Circle, I’ve photographed my way through Rocky Mountain, Grand Teton, Yellowstone, Glacier, Mount Rainier and Alaska’s mind-blowing parks—Denali, Lake Clark, Glacier Bay, Kenai Fiords and Wrangell-St. Elias.
Later, I shot Hawai‘i Volcanoes and Haleakalá, and truly believed that in exploring and shooting 40 of the 59 national parks, I had seen all possible landscape types, from alpine tundra to deserts and even island volcanoes. Tropical beaches never crossed my mind. Being a Westerner, I have a built-in bias for big skies and spacious parks, where one can hike a few miles and easily find true…
