Here's another from a couple nights ago, at Blue Canyon. After about four hours of dismal light, overcast skies and drizzly rain, we were rewarded with a great sunset, an amazing dusk, and to top it all off, right after sunset we got this rainbow! I can't imagine a more spectacular place to shoot a rainbow. Usually when I see a rainbow this nice, I'm in the parking lot of a shopping mall, or stuck in traffic somewhere.

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Sunrise in Acadia National Park. After a three day storm with wind and constant rain, I was camping in a tent, soaking wet and miserable. The rain finally stopped shortly before sunrise. I got up, because I couldn't sleep anyway. I headed down to the ocean and got this spectacular sunrise. There is no better time for photography than right after a storm.

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Here's another from Show Low Lake a couple nights ago. The weather has been so gray and gloomy up in the White Mountains this week, lightning has been about the only thing I have had to shoot.

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This was the very first shot taken on my very last day in Yosemite, a couple months ago. As I was driving into the park, in the rain, I was thinking that I was completely wasting my time going into the park on such a crappy day. As I approached the valley from the north side, I saw a couple of photographers standing on the side of the road, so I pulled over to see what they were shooting. There was nothing. It was just a solid wall of white. I wondered, 'what the hell are these guys looking at?' Suddenly the white fog lifted for just a second, and this scene emerged. I started firing away madly. That's when I realized, this was going to be an amazing day!

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Here's an NJPA award winner from my early days at the Coast Star. This late summer thunderstorm came out of nowhere and sent beachgoers running for their cars.

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