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Landscapes

With limited equipment, I began my photographic journey capturing landscapes.  After visiting Yellowstone, Glacier, the Tetons and the Badlands, I was hooked and wanted to visit and capture the beauty of all 60 US National parks.

I eventually began traveling to National parks outside of the US.  Today I have captured images on four continents and still counting.
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Moab, Ut

Mesa Arch

Mesa Arch is a pothole arch on the eastern edge of the Island in the Sky mesa in Canyonlands National Park in northern San Juan County, Utah, United States. 

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Alaska

Aurora Borealis

The northern lights occur all four seasons of the year, although they are harder to see under the midday sun. The best time to see the northern lights in Alaska is between August and April, when less daylight leads to darker night skies.

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Iceland

Seljalandsfoss 

A trail that leads you behind the falls and out the other side the Seljalandsfoss waterfalls in Iceland. Seljalandsfoss is located in the South Region in Iceland. The waterfall drops 60 meters.

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North Carolina and Tennessee

Smoky Mountains NP

The dark trees in the foreground act like a vignette leading the eye up into the layers of mountains in the middle ground. Naturally right though the clouds  to the warm bright sky.  The dark storm clouds create tension while pushing the viewers eye back into the center of composition.

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Iceland

Vestrahorn, on the Stokksnes peninsula

Stokksnes is a headland on the southeastern Icelandic coast, near Hofn and Hornafjördur. Stokksnes is located south of Kastarárfjall mountain, and includes Vestrahorn mountain, which was featured in the Bollywood film Dilwale.

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Washington State

Olympic National Park

Within Olympic National Park, there are three distinct  ecosystems, including subalpine forest and wildflower meadow, temperate forest, and the rugged Pacific coast.

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Nova Scotia, Canada 

Cape Benton

You will find beautiful fall foilage on Cape Breton Island.  It is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Arizona

White Pocket

White Pocket is a group of domes and ridges covering an area of one square mile, below a larger mesa lined by similar rocks.

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The Isle of Skye, Scotland

Eilean Donan Castle

One of Scotland's most iconic and most recognisable castles. Featured in many movies most famously, the original "Highlander" as well as "The World is Not Enough" and "Made of Honour".

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London, England

Parliament and Big Ben

London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom, is a 21st-century city with history stretching back to Roman times. At its centre stand the imposing Houses of Parliament, the iconic ‘Big Ben’ clock tower and Westminster Abbey, site of British monarch coronations. 

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England

Stonehenge

Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles west of Amesbury.  It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet high, seven feet wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones. 

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Java, Indonesia

Mount Bromo

View of Mts. Bromo (left and smoking), Batok (foreground), Semeru (center background), Jambangan (right background), and Widodaren (right foreground), in the Tengger Caldera

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CPP Michael J. Kirkland, Photographer for mjkirklandimages and mjkirkland.com

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