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Landscape & Wildlife Photography

Landscape & Wildlife Photography

Landscape & Wildlife Photography

Roads, ridges, desert light, weather, and night skies — the field work that shaped the Dusty Dog Studio look. The archive runs wider than Nevada alone: Tahoe, Yosemite, Zion, Banff, Grand Teton, Glacier, and the high desert in between, plus wildlife (bison, wolf, grizzly) and a rare aurora caught over a two-lane backroad. Nevada is the home base; the road trips are what sharpened the eye.

Roads, ridges, desert light, weather, and night skies — the field work that shaped the Dusty Dog Studio look. The archive runs wider than Nevada alone: Tahoe, Yosemite, Zion, Banff, Grand Teton, Glacier, and the high desert in between, plus wildlife (bison, wolf, grizzly) and a rare aurora caught over a two-lane backroad. Nevada is the home base; the road trips are what sharpened the eye.

Roads, ridges, desert light, weather, and night skies — the field work that shaped the Dusty Dog Studio look. The archive runs wider than Nevada alone: Tahoe, Yosemite, Zion, Banff, Grand Teton, Glacier, and the high desert in between, plus wildlife (bison, wolf, grizzly) and a rare aurora caught over a two-lane backroad. Nevada is the home base; the road trips are what sharpened the eye.

Personal collection

Nevada / Sierra

2023-2026

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The story

Roads, ridges, desert light, weather, and night skies — the field work that shaped the Dusty Dog Studio look. The archive runs wider than Nevada alone: Tahoe, Yosemite, Zion, Banff, Grand Teton, Glacier, and the high desert in between, plus wildlife (bison, wolf, grizzly) and a rare aurora caught over a two-lane backroad. Nevada is the home base; the road trips are what sharpened the eye.

Roads, ridges, desert light, weather, and night skies — the field work that shaped the Dusty Dog Studio look. The archive runs wider than Nevada alone: Tahoe, Yosemite, Zion, Banff, Grand Teton, Glacier, and the high desert in between, plus wildlife (bison, wolf, grizzly) and a rare aurora caught over a two-lane backroad. Nevada is the home base; the road trips are what sharpened the eye.

The landscape work gives the studio its sense of place, but it needs to support the business story instead of becoming a separate nature gallery.

Photography, editing, and art direction.

A visual foundation for the studio's tone and a source library for service and field-note pages.

Deliverables

Landscape, wildlife, and night-sky image sets spanning the Sierra Nevada, the Great Basin, and the national parks along the way — the same eye that now shoots for clients.

Landscape, wildlife, and night-sky image sets spanning the Sierra Nevada, the Great Basin, and the national parks along the way — the same eye that now shoots for clients.

Creative Direction

This collection started with a hand-me-down 35mm film camera and a lot of patience in the quiet places — roaming forests, chasing light through the trees, learning to wait for a frame instead of forcing one. That patience is still the whole method: intentional framing, soft glow, dramatic contrast, and a willingness to wait for the right five minutes of light.

PRODUCTION NOTE

The land does the talking.

The land does the talking.

The land does the talking.

The Archive

The archive spans further than any one place — Tahoe, Yosemite, Zion, Banff, Grand Teton, Glacier, and the high desert closer to home. What ties it together isn't geography, it's the same habit: get out before the light is good, and stay until after it's gone.

Field Notes

Most of these frames exist because of a hike that started before sunrise, not because of a shot list. That's still the standard this collection is held to.

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