“God Save the Cowboy”
By Jim Chamberlain The White Mountains of Arizona are a combination of rolling hills, green mountains, and aspen groves among ponderosa pines. Fall in these mountains allowed me to gaze at golden gr...
The Other Side of the Canyon: a visit to the North Rim
By Jim Chamberlain I have visited almost every viewpoint on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon over the years. I have stared across the ten-mile-wide abyss trying to find the lodge on the opposite si...
Wait 15 minutes: A Monument Valley Experience
By Jim Chamberlain The rain was coming down in buckets. The canvas roof of the open sided tour vehicle provided limited protection especially when the wind would blow. I watched waterfalls magical...
Journey Along the Icefields Parkway: A Canadian Rockies Adventure
By Jim Chamberlain The valley stretched out before me as I gazed at the blue-green waters of a mountain lake beneath the craggy peaks of a spectacular mountain range, the Canadian Rockies. The Icefiel...
The Best Hummingbird Photographs I have ever taken!
By Jim Chamberlain Hummingbirds are some of the most interesting and photogenic critters on the planet. I normally like to photograph big animals like whales, bears, eagles, moose and elk. I always wa...
10 Scenic Places to Visit on the Olympic Peninsula
By Jim Chamberlain The Olympic Peninsula of Washington State contains some of the most wild and beautiful places anywhere in the United States. The weather can change in minutes from beautiful sunsh...
Capturing Images of a Disappearing America: A Visit to the Palouse
By Jim Chamberlain The water roared as it plunged down over the basalt lip into a dark pool 180 feet below. The Palouse River continued its journey along a serpentine path south towards the Snake Ri...
The Beauty of Bryce Canyon
By Jim Chamberlain Hoodoos are what they call the strange and fanciful rock formations that make Bryce Canyon National Park one of our most beautiful and photogenic places in the Southwest. Spires of ...
Where God put the West: Monument Valley
By Jim Chamberlain When the famous American actor John Wayne first saw the buttes, mesas, and spires of Monument Valley, he is quoted as saying “Monument Valley is the place where God put the West....
Chasing Stars in the High Desert
By Jim Chamberlain The night was so dark I could not see the buttons on my camera without my red lens flashlight. The sky seemed black above the granite boulders. As my eyes adjusted to the darkne...