An assignment to highlight some of the San Francisco Bay Area's beautiful and lesser known National Parks for National Parks Magazine]]>
San Francisco's Baker Beach, part of Golden Gate National Recreation Area, is the perfect place to break from the urban scene.
Eastern Design Elements define much of playwright Eugene O'Neill's former home, or the "Tao House" as it's commonly called. It was here that O'Neill penned a Pulitzer prize winning play.
A Woman Hikes Through Yellow Lupine on the bluffs of Tomales Bay in Point Reyes National Seashore. Towering Ancient Redwood Trees in Muir Woods National Monument provide a respite for San Francisco residents and tourists alike. A Lookout Near Chimney Rock offers stunning views of Point Reyes National Seashore.]]>
I came back from an assignment with the New York Times to raft and Kayak the remote Owyhee River in South Eastern Oregon with some wonderful photography and a flu I couldn't kick for over a week.]]>
Read the story about our trip down the Owyhee in the New York Times
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Olaf Malver is the man behind Explorer's Corner - a company that leads expedition style kayaking trips in some of the remotest places on the planet. We had to arrange to do this shoot early in the morning for a profile in a magazine so that we could catch the Golden Gate in that foggy, foreboding mood it gets in when the fogs pours in from the pacific in the wee hours of the morning. So it is about 6:30 AM and I have big strobes set up below the Golden Gate bridge to light Olaf and make the background even darker and more foreboding than it was.
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National Geographic Adventure features spread of hiking in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, in "The Most Beautiful Places: Parks '08"]]>
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Canoe and Kayak writes about the oil spill in San Francisco Bay, and illustrates the story with my image from a day on the clean waters of the Bay.]]>
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A recent assignment for the New York Times in the Hawaiian Islands.]]>
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The New York Times sent me to British Columbia, Canada to photograph the helicopter hiking that is happening there. As a wilderness purist who has spent substantial time in the mountains, with all my summits earned only through sweat, I wasn't sure what I'd think of catching a ride to pristine alpine environments in a helicopter - but the experience proved that these disappearing environments are as special however you arrive, and that perhaps a helicopter is the only way to deliver many people to visit them.]]>
Read the Story By Joe Nocera on the New York Times website
See the Slideshow on the New York Times Website
"The Last Wilderness" - a depressing title for an otherwise great piece! Though stunning and remote, let us hope that Northern Idaho doesn't represent the last wilderness anytime soon. A six day assignment this spring in Northern Idaho produces a nice front page in the New York Times Sunday Travel Section, a great spread inside.]]>
See the sildeshow on the New York Times Website
Read the story by Timothy Egan online
National Geographic Adventure publishes a long feature I photographed about route 89, and a trip we made from Canada to Mexico along that route.]]>
Two for the road: The author (at right) and the photographer head south on two lane route 89. Opposite: the byway, the outdoor lover's answer to route 66, rolls from high mountains to low desert, through the heart of the American West.
Big Sky Ride. Clockwise from top right: A barfly in the Old Saloon, in Emigrant, Montana, recalls his early years astride a Harley; the author gets an elevated perspective in Montana; hiking to Glacier National Park's Iceberg Lake; byway, this way.
The West Gone Wild: Putting in on Greys River, Wyoming. A bull Elk roams Yellowstone National Park. Cruising a spur road near the Grand Tetons; a route 89 rest stop.
The Canadian Border;Cruising wide-open 89; Zion National Park; Gold found in the ghost town of Stanton.
Red Rock Run: Cruising Bryce Canyon National Park's hoodoos (above). Clockwise from right: Lodging in Stanton, Arizona; a perfect perch in Bryce; the author stops for a soak at Utah's Mystic Hot Springs.
Mark Sundeen and Jeff Pflueger "The Ballad of Route 89" From Montana's glacier country and the Tetons to the Grand Canyon, route 89 doles out a greatest-hits sampling of iconic US landscapes. "It takes you to some of the national parks' most spectacular spots, but our favorite sites were discovered in between," says writer Sundeen (above, left), who drove the 1,700-mile byway with photographer Pflueger (above, right) for our feature. "Stanton was the moment for me," Pflueger says, of an odd little Arizona encampment they came across. "To meet people reinhabiting a ghost town and playing out their gold-mining dreams in the desert was like seeing the Old West come alive."
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Men's Journal runs a two page spread of my photo of the Ostrander Hut in Yosemite. I wonder if the caretaker, Howard, is going crazy with all publicity that the hut is getting...sorry Howard! Then again, if Yosemite National Park sees a lot of interest in the hut, perhaps they'll stop being so cranky about it, and maybe even pave the way for more winter ski hut opportunities in the Park.
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An assignment to photograph stormy Big Sur in the winter. My photos are the front page and a big spread in the New York Times January 7, 2007 Travel Section.]]>
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Read "Big Sur Without the Crowds" in the New York Times
Read "Big Sur Without the Crowds" on writer Greg Dicum's website
See the New York Times/Jeff Pflueger Big Sur Slide Show
See more of Jeff's photos from Big Sur on this website
Big Sur in the evening looking out from the Esalen Institute. Henry Miller was captivated by the area, which is home to rare wildlife like condors and sea otters.
Clockwise from top left: Looking at a gathering Pacific storm from an Esalen hot spring; a cabin at Deetjin's Big Sur Inn; towering redwoods in Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park; tuning up and sunset strolling at Pfeiffer Beach; breakfast during a rainy morning at Deetjen's.]]>
I shot a story for the New York Times about Sierra backcountry skiing and Yosemite's historic Ostrander Hut. The shoot was over six days and involved over 36 miles of combined backcountry skiing. The story was published February 19,2006.]]>
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See the New York Times/Jeff Pflueger Slide Show
Read the Article on writer Mark Sundeen's Site
Read the article on the New Yrok Times Website
Nettie Pardue (right) and Mark Sundeen (the author) work their way uphill near the Ostrander Hut for a run. Below Simon Kenney and Nicholas Ferlatte skiing in past a view of Half Dome.
(Above) Kelsey Ripple and Tim Bluhm get a bite in the hut's kitchen. (middle) Ostrander hut was built in 1941 with two foot thick granite walls. (Left) Howard Weamer in familiar territory above Ostrander lake.
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I am both the photographer and the model in this shot I did for the clothing brand Patagonia.
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"Kayaking the Forbidden River" was published in the July 2005 issue of Men's Journal. Writer Frederick Reimers and I document the descent of a class V+ river in New Mexico. The river is rarely run - it is rare that there is enough snow run-off to feed the river, and the access to the put-in goes through private land owned by surly ranchers.]]>
Jeff Pflueger joins a team of eight kayakers to descend the Class V Brazos River in New Mexico.
Captions: Gearing Up: Tim Kelton collects his equipment in preparation for tackling the Brazos. Making a run for it: Kelton runs a waterfall on the Brazos River in New Mexico.
Captions: River Rats: (Clockwise from left) Dunbar Hardy shoots a rapid on the Brazos; Atom Crawford casts for native cutthroat trout; John Fullbright whips up a gourmet meal for the crew; Jesse King, Dunbar Hardy, and the author (from left) plot their course through the Brazos's dangerous whitewater. Next page: The Heat is on: Atom Crawford and Frederick Reimers warm up by the campfire.
Caption: Carried away: Jessie King shoulders his boat after surviving the Brazos River.
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