After weeks of suffocating heat and smoke from the Tamarack, Beckworth, and Dixie fires, Aubrey and I decided it was time to make a trip the California coast, one of the only places within a 7 ho...
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A few weeks ago Aubrey and I made our way south to explore Gold Butte National Monument. Though it is one of the nations more recently protected areas, established in 2016, what makes the area sp...
https://www.artinnaturephotography.com/wordpress/2021/in-search-of-mystery-in-gold-butte/
The professor and pandemic life has, unfortunately, limited Aubrey and my opportunities to explore over the past year. However, two weeks ago we finally got away for Nevada Day–a statewide cele...
https://www.artinnaturephotography.com/wordpress/2020/black-rock-desert-wanderings/
Though it has been a stressful, strange, scary, and confusing time, some things never change: the peace and quiet of the wilderness. Fortunately, social distancing is no problem in the Nevada wil...
https://www.artinnaturephotography.com/wordpress/2020/wild-nevada/
A few weeks ago Aubrey, myself, and some friends celebrated George and Abraham’s birthday by driving out to west-central Nevada to see what we could find in and around the Toiyabe Mountains. We...
https://www.artinnaturephotography.com/wordpress/2020/middle-of-nowhere-nevada/
Many months ago now, Aubrey and I were fortunate to have found time to go on our annual adventure. For about 10 years I had wanted to explore the Gardiner Basin in the Sierra, which is the basin ...
https://www.artinnaturephotography.com/wordpress/2019/gardening-for-stars/
It’s been a busy few months since moving to Reno, starting a lab at UNR, making friends, skiing, biking, and welcoming a small dinosaur (parrot) into our home, but at long last Aubrey and I fin...
https://www.artinnaturephotography.com/wordpress/2019/alpine-lagoon-desolation-wilderness/
At the beginning of this year I started my new position as assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. The last few months have been quite busy with starting ...
https://www.artinnaturephotography.com/wordpress/2019/home-means-nevada/
Fall has arrived! Here in the northwest, that means the blueberry bushes are turning red, the larches gold, and a plethora of other plants are taking on shades of yellow, orange, red, and purple....
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Autumn is coming! The days are getting shorter, there is a crisp snap to the air, and the first rains are blowing in from the Pacific. To celebrate the changing of the seasons, Aubrey and I went ...