Four. Project: Alabama Hills

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A couple of years ago, I spoke at a couple of workshops based in the eastern Sierra Nevadas (California) for famed wildlife photographer Moose Peterson. Driving up and down the Sierras would come to be one of my most treasured memories. That said, when you are making landscape images there is no bigger wrench that can be thrown into your plans than the weather.

We initially set out to visit the Alabama Hills—a great rocky area just south of Mammoth, CA. As we were driving to the area, I noticed that the clouds started increasing. More and more clouds appeared the further we drove into the Alabama Hills. By the time ...

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