This was shot from my campsite at Paulina Lake, Oregon, October 2015. Its the last week the campground is open, so it a great time if you want the place to yourself. Really cold though!!

Sony A7R, Canon 24-70mm f.2.8L II. Adobe Lightroom CC.

I have been extremely busy at work, not much time for making artwork, but I managed to get a free Sunday to finish this. :) Thanks for the kind comments on my last pieces!

Created in Adobe Photoshop CS6.

Planetary nebulae like the Helix are sculpted late in a Sun-like star's life by a torrential gush of gases escaping from the dying star. They have nothing to do with planet formation, but got their name because they look like planetary disks when viewed through a small telescope. With higher magnification, the classic "donut-hole" in the middle of a planetary nebula can be resolved. Based on the nebula's distance of 650 light-years, its angular size corresponds to a huge ring with a diameter of nearly 3 light-years. That's approximately three-quarters of the distance between our Sun and the nearest star.

The Helix Nebula is a popular target of amateur astronomers and can be seen with binoculars as a ghostly, greenish cloud in the constellation Aquarius. Larger amateur telescopes can resolve the ring-shaped nebula, but only the largest ground-based telescopes can resolve the radial streaks. After careful analysis, astronomers concluded the nebula really isn't a bubble, but is a cylinder that happens to be pointed toward Earth.

Credit: NASA, NOAO, ESA, the Hubble Helix Nebula Team, M. Meixner (STScI), and T.A. Rector (NRAO).

Coming of the clouds just at sunset at my local spot.

Adobe Lightroom 5.3, Adobe Photoshop Elements 11, B+W Circular Polarizer.

Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM.

Photo Settings: 17mm, f/11, 1/2 second, ISO 50.

Captured in Oulu, Finland. View from the pier to the river beds. It was so foggy that you couldn't see further from the pier.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.4.

Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II.

Photo Settings: 24mm, f/8, 1/2 second, ISO 800.

Map: 65.0263, 25.4510

On Wednesday I spent 14 hours and drove around 700 miles chasing storms through Kansas and Oklahoma. The "cap" prevented many of the storms from producing much, but we ended the night with a breathtaking sunset that lasted over an hour! What a sight! This is a photo I took near Enid, Oklahoma while we were enjoying the show.

Adobe Lightroom CC, Adobe Photoshop CC.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II.

Photo Settings: 11mm, f/4, 1/50 second, ISO 100.

An old lonely tower watching over his rough cold cliffs.

O'Briens Tower, Cliffs Of Moher, Ireland. January 2016.

Capture One Pro 9.

Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM.

Although there is certainly a poetry to the world when it's alive and full of people, there is simply nothing that can possibly compare to that same world when no one else is around. It is stripped of the extraneous energy and second hand emotion that occurs when you're lost in a crowd (even if that crowd is small). You're seeing it raw… bare. It's an otherworldly experience to say the least.

Now add sunrise to the mix. That's the time when the earth itself wakes up. Shades of understated grey give way to hues of lilac, violet, and lemon that simply don't exist later in the day. It is the visual equivalent of listening to an orchestra tuning up just before the performance of a lifetime.

This shot features a private boathouse along the main river of Perth. (If you've visited the area, you may know it well!)

At sunrise on this crisp winter morning, it appeared wise… knowing. A loan witness to this beautiful world at this extraordinary time of day, there at the end of that simple, weathered pier.

Camera: GX617; Film: Velvia 50 Slide; Scan: Heidelberg Tango; Post-processing: None.

Sunset in Alta, Norway.

Sigma 17-70C

Pentax K-3.

Photo Settings: 40mm, f/5, 1/80 second, ISO 1600.

Map: 69.9614, 23.2414

While studying abroad in Florence, Italy, I took this photo during my fall-break in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. Lauterbrunnen and the surrounding small towns are some of the most beautiful places I've seen in my life; as a photographer, the amount of spots like this for amazing photos were overwhelming.

B+W CPL, travel-sized tripod, Adobe Photoshop CS5.1

Canon EOS 1D Mark II, Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM.