Sailing, Mountains & Photography

Sailing

I raced through my teens and early twenties, across one-design classes and offshore. In 2003, at fourteen, I became the youngest person ever to win an open-class sailing world championship. In 2005 I qualified for the United States Sailing Team.

Melges 24 racing at the World Championship 18-foot skiff racing in Sydney, 2005 Offshore during the 2001 Transpacific Yacht Race 18-foot skiff on San Francisco Bay, 2005 Etchells racing on San Francisco Bay, 2005 At sea during the 2001 Transpac

Sailing photographs courtesy of Pegasus Racing.

Selected results

Astrophotography

The Milky Way rising behind the granite face of Mt. Whitney at night
Named the National Park Service's best night-sky photograph of 2019. The Milky Way core rising behind Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States.

I shoot deep-sky targets and wide nightscapes, mostly across the Eastern Sierra and on expeditions abroad. Same instinct as the day job: pull faint signal out of a noisy sky and make it legible.

Cosmic dust and zodiacal light above Mt. Whitney and Lone Pine Peak The Horsehead and Flame nebulae in Orion Orion and the Flame nebula setting over Mt. Tom The Pleiades over the La Sal Mountains The Whirlpool Galaxy, M51 The Rosette Nebula The Milky Way over Cotopaxi volcano, with a tent lit in the foreground The Milky Way over the Big Sur coastline The Milky Way above red sandstone cliffs

Mountains

Most of my photography happens because I've hiked, climbed, or skinned somewhere to take it. Alpine rock and ice, high summits, and backcountry skiing when the snow is good.

Crack climbing on alpine granite above a glacier Dawn over a sea of clouds from the summit of Cotopaxi, Ecuador Ice climbing a frozen waterfall in Banff, Alberta High on the glaciated slopes of Cotopaxi, Ecuador Sunrise over the clouds from Cayambe, Ecuador Leading a vertical pitch of blue ice Approaching a line of granite spires in the high Sierra Two ski tourers looking out over a snow-covered range A steep granite face in the Sierra Ice climbing up a frozen gully A skin track climbing a backcountry slope Climbing a granite slab under a clear sky Three skiers on a backcountry tour in the Selkirks, British Columbia