Unless I’m photographing someone with purpose, for a reason, I typically don’t want to see people in my pictures. Obviously when shooting sports it’s all about people being the center of attention but as I shoot nature and landscapes across the country I work hard to have a canvas void of humans; I’m shooting nature and the best part of nature is that there are no people there!

I’m the guy that celebrated the fact that the Indian ruins at Mesa Verde National Park were closed to foot traffic because of the danger of rocks falling from the cliffs above allowing me to get images of the ruins without people crawling all over them. I’m the guy that yelled at a teen who was walking across Double O Arch in Arches National Park, where by the way it was clearly stated that people should not climb on the formations; and I’m the guy that complained to park officials at Garden of the Gods because kids were climbing on the Cathedral Spires, where as it turns out is allowed there…which I still can’t believe.

Okay, I’m a bit of a nature and landscape scrooge and with that in mind I put together this gallery of “people” pictures to show everyone that I’m not an anti-people, anti-social photographer; perhaps more to prove that fact to myself than to convince any of you!

So in this gallery you will find a mix of candid and posed images of people, lots of people. Some you might know personally and others you might recognize because they are famous personalities. Some of these pictures you may have seen previously in other galleries but there are a number of images here that have never seen the light of day, until now. All are interesting and if you look closely they represent some of our strongest assets as human beings…and the things I like most about people…diversity and individuality.