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Love getting up early? Do so and you might witness the aftermath of a similar winter's snow storm. The temperature was below zero and also very brisk but the snow blanketed scenic meadow at Mammoth Mountain provided this opportunity to enjoy sparkling beautiful ice crystals as the dawn sunlight swept across it, the trees, Mammoth Rock, the Sherwin Mountain Range and the ridge along the Panorama Dome.

Since childhood, Aristotle's quote, "Where there is no vision, the people perish," has been a huge influence on me. I continue to extend and interpret its meaning through my photography as I capture images that hopefully inspire, amuse and gladden. At the same time, perhaps my images will also help document the beauty of Mother Nature and our responsibility to care for her. Following a three decade career in public education, as a teacher and then principal for the Los Angeles Unified School District, I began a new career quite serendipitously as a professional landscape, wildlife and jazz photographer of California's majestic Eastern Sierra mountains. Exhilarated by the exquisite beauty surrounding our new mountain residence, my...