In 2008, together with Olivier Faugeras and Steve Maybank, he received the initial Koenderink Prize, for fundamental contributions in computer vision.
[7] After moving to California to work at UC Berkeley in 1993, influenced by the West Coast landscape photography tradition, he learned to use large format cameras, and in the process created the website largeformatphotography.info.
[8][9] He has since continued to work in the national parks in great depth using his uncommon wilderness skills,[10][11] creating a singularly comprehensive record of America's landscape.
[18] In 2009, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan featured him as the only living artist in The National Parks: America’s Best Idea[19] and used his photograph Yosemite, Winter Sunset for the series' cover.
Postal Service used his photograph of the Little Missouri River winding through the badlands of North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park on a stamp celebrating the National Park Service’s Centennial,[20][21] and in 2023 they featured three of his photographs in a series of postage stamps celebrating waterfalls.