Michele Steineke Photography

A little history of the Salt Trams in Death Valley

The Joshua Tree Forest at Lee Flat in Death Valley is one of the biggest in the park. Read more about it!

Travel adventures of Mike and Michele. This edition speaks about Dantes View in Death Valley.

Surrounded by the Wallowa Mountains, Hell's Canyon is also called "Little Switzerland".  It was all brown this time of the yea

There are some pretty cool things in the southern part of Utah. Two in particular are Mexican Hat and Raplee Ridge. After passing the eroded

I have the best husband in the world. Last year we had stopped at Bonneville Salt Flats in the hopes I would be able to photograph the salt

Recently I made a trip to a local waterfall called Montgomery Creek Falls. I had been there before, however, I had never ventured down...

This blog is so late from when we took the trip but is also in timely fashion for the upcoming fall colors in September and October! Near...

It's funny how when you mention to people that you are going to the desert that they get these visions of nothing but sand, extreme...

In my small town, up by the dump, is the cutest little shack (for lack of a better word). I had often wondered what the story was behind...