For over twenty years, John Gregg has been hiking and backpacking in the southwestern United States.  Backpacking trips of five days in the back country limit the camera's weight and size.  He has been using a Canon TL, 35 mm camera for his landscape images of the wilderness areas.  John has been producing photographic images of his trips for the public since 1988, and is proud to have the world see his photographs.  The photographs in the Landscape Portfolio are a sampling of these images.  A description of some of John's hiking and backpacking trips is included.  These areas include the Grand Canyon, Zion and Bryce National Parks, the Great Basin of Nevada, canyons of southern Utah and the back country of California's Sierra Mountains.  All images are matted and framed to the highest standards, to last a lifetime.

Indigenous tribes have been painstakingly carving symbols and images into rocks and cliffs in the southwestern United States for over a thousand years.  John has a collection of photographs of these images, called Petroglyphs.  John admires the artistry, and wonders on the meaning behind some of the large panels of petroglyphs.  Some panels may have been important messages, such as where water might be found, or who was living in the area.  Others may have been done by the shaman in sacred places such as Grapevine Canyon in Spirit Mountain.  Here, some petroglyphs look like a shield or geometric design done during a dream quest.  There are over fifty different shield and geometric design petroglyphs in Grapevine Canyon.  Because it takes hours to do one small petroglyph on a rock, some of these panels would have taken months to complete.