Mark Edward Dawson crawls up through a narrow crack in the walls of Fifty Mile Canyon in southern Utah.
Photograph courtesy of Shane Knight

I have been interested in photography as long as I can remember. When I was little I had a theory that photographs were already inside the little film canisters, and when you sent them off to be developed all the store did was take them out, unfold them, and iron out the creases. (I’ve learned a little bit more about photography since then.)

Photographer, educator, traveler

Recent journal entries

Inadvertent Homage to Winslow Homer

The National Gallery of Art has a fun daily art-related game called Artle, in which you get four guesses to identify the artist behind the day’s selection of art pieces. One of today’s paintings – by...

The Two Gun Saloon

I don’t always drive long distances over rough 4WD trails to get to my tintype locations. Sometimes there are some pretty cool subjects in my own backyard. The property I live on near Flagstaff, Arizona...

North Rim Tintype Excursion

It has been several years since I made any tintype photographs of the Grand Canyon, and now that it’s practically in my backyard (I recently moved to the Flagstaff area!) I wanted to spend some...

Sedona Tintype – Cathedral Rock and Oak Creek

In honor of joining the gallery at the Sedona Arts Center in Sedona, Arizona, I decided I really should make a tintype of a Sedona-area landmark. It’s challenging to find typical Sedona scenes that don’t...

Rafael Fire, Arizona, 2021

The Evolution of Fire Management and the Role of Knowledge Back in late 2022 I worked with my friend John Schaffer on another one of his land and wildfire video projects, this time on 2021’s...

Midnight Fire, El Rito, NM, 2022

November, 2022, found John Schaffer and I working on one of his land and wildfire management videos, this time in the tiny funky town of El Rito, New Mexico, site of the Midnight Fire earlier...