• "a NATIONAL PARK ODYSSEY at the WITTER" from the Nov. 23, 2011 Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune
• "By Dawn's Early Light" by Tina Owen from the June 2011 Iowa Alumni Magazine
• "That Much Further West" from the February 2011 Buena Vista Today
• Kimberly Nelson's article from the BVU Tack
• Dana Larsen's article from the Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune (re-posted in BVU News).
  This one's from back in June 2010 when we were just beginning our journeys.

What we do...

Lining up for the shot.
-photo courtesy of
Marge Ellingson

My wife Marge and I devoted 2010 to visiting our National Parks with the goal of capturing landscape images on a scale of size and to a degree of detail that has never been done before. In 2011, we followed that up with our first visit to Rocky Mountain National Park and a return to The Badlands while also working to prepare a gallery show. This past summer, we spent time in The Loess Hills, beginning a project that we anticipate will extend into 2013 and beyond.

Our show, National Parks West, has recently wrapped up a showing at its third venue, the Pearson Lakes Art Center in Okoboji, Iowa. While we figure out the show's next stop, 4 of the pieces are currently featured among 2013's top Share the View selections as chosen by the Audubon Society of Greater Denver. You can take a look right here.

All the images you will find on this site have been prepared for making high-quality prints. So far, I've got each one ready to go in three sizes, and since I'm doing all the printing myself, you can be assured that any prints purchased will not only meet with exceedingly high standards, but will also arrive hand-signed.

If you'd like to keep up-to-date with our plans or join in the conversation, we welcome you to visit us on our Nature's Image fan page on Facebook.

A bit about the images (& this site)

This website has been specially designed to show the landscapes in as large a scale as possible for your respective computer screen. This is because the smaller of the prints, when printed at "normal" size, measure about

Looking over The Badlands.
-photo courtesy of
Marge Ellingson

two feet high by three feet wide. The larger ones can reach more than two feet high by six to eight (or even more) feet in length. And while any photographer's film or digital image could be printed large-scale, the quality of small digital or film files printed large will quickly become grainy or pixelated. By comparison, the National Park images you can find on this site will print to 30 inches in height without a discernible reduction in quality. (And I stand behind that with my 30-day money-back guarantee.)

While this website is an attempt to show them large, the resolution and size of a computer monitor, even a large one, cannot demonstrate what these images capture. If you're curious, we encourage you to visit the Magnification Gallery where we've tried to convey just a little bit of a sense of what this is about.

Also, we welcome you to stop in and sign the Gallery Guestbook while you're here. Thanks for visiting! Enjoy...

Like you, we love the amber waves and purple mountains of the American landscape, and we've dedicated ourselves to creating the highest quality Big pictures of our Big country for your home or office. If you'd like to receive email updates as we add to our landscape collection, sign up right here.

All images are currently available in 3 print sizes as well as in Black & White. Pick any destination and start your adventure...