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This was a picture perfect postcard kind of winter day as the sun broke through the clouds to kiss the top of the freshly fallen snow on these aspen groves. While driving southbound just below Crowley Lake on Highway 395 in California, there are many scenic opportunities to photograph. I added the white vignette to illustrate the feeling i had while photographing the image through my passenger window that was used as a tripod. It was very cold outside and the sun had just broken through a light dusting of snow early in the winter season.

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...