Southwest: Utah Sky

Southwest: Sedona

Southwest: Paria Wilderness - Slot Canyon

Mecca for a light chaser like me.

I've never witnessed a place where light dances the way it does here.

Southwest: Bryce Canyon

Southwest: The Narrows Video!

Join us on a 16 mile hike/swim down the Virgin River in Zion National Park.

Song: Dirty Guv'nahs "Baby We Were Young"

Southwest: The Narrows

We had a fantastic experience trekking through Zion National Park's crown-jewel trail. The Narrows a 16 mile stretch of the Virgin River that creates a stunning slot canyon. The reflected light from the canyon walls into the riverbed is enough to make any photographer go bananas, and the trail is basically the river itself.

In places the water reached well up to our chest. At times it was best just to swim. Truly a grand adventure. Gotta trust those dry bags! This was my first slot canyon, and it won't be the last.

Southwest: Sunrise in Zion

Zion National Park.

Painted these moon lilies with my headlamp before first light.

Southwest: Loud Vegas - Hoover Dam

Eager to be within the quiet canyon walls of Zion National Park tomorrow.

Ethiopia: Coming Your Way

Ethiopia: for Salem

Addis Ababa - I visited Salem each morning for 17 days. Loving thousands was overwhelming, so I just loved one. With her permission and dignity, I recorded the world from her perspective. Watch them.

My interactions with Salem changed me. Bending to her level, greeting her, rubbing her back, her kissing my hands, my whispering in her ear that's she's beautiful, and her leprous eyes glowing once she believed it. These are moments I'll never forget.

This is meant to pull questions from within you, not answer them. I assure you I do not have your answers. I do ask that you consider her film in the light of what good may have come rather than despair, and see what happens.

Ethiopia: The Whole Picture

You remember their 1984 famine, parched land, and distended bellies. But have you seen the fields of waving teff, the tropical forests, or the joy of heaven in the eyes of the children?

This is a collection of video clips I shot during four separate photo assignments all across Ethiopia during the month of May, 2010.

From mini-bus to bajoj and rocky northern deserts to southern tropical mountains... come see Ethiopia the Beautiful.

Canon 5D Mark II
Kessler Pocket Dolly
Music: Ethiopian Millienium Collection

Ethiopia: Radical Hospitality

Davis Parker's family hosted a bright Ethiopian high school student named Fasil at their home in Huntsville, AL last year. Fasil was part of the Cherokee Exchange Program.

This afternoon, Davis and I visit Fasil's home in Addis Ababa. His extraordinarily gracious mother lavishes us with every known delicacy.

She sprinkles the floor with grasses. The air fills with incense. Our stomachs fill to the brim with delicious injera and meat dishes. The traditional coffee ceremony commences.