A New Direction

A New Direction

I’m off on a new direction. Not entirely new.  I still love taking photos, love gardening, enjoy cooking and sadly, love eating a bit too much.  So, “What’s new?” My website has a different mix.  It was nude, nude, nude.  To paraphrase my...
Coal Mine Canyon

Coal Mine Canyon

Coal Mine Canyon is a little known pocket wilderness area on the boundary between the Hopi and Navajo reservations.  The closest town is Tuba City, AZ.  The first time my friend Charles and I looked for it we had not done our Internet research.  There were several...
Balloon Festival in Bluff, Utah

Balloon Festival in Bluff, Utah

A hot air balloon festival is a colorful site.   Bluff, UT is a tiny town with a couple of motels, a gas station, and once a year in the winter, a balloon festival.  Bluff itself has some nice cliffs.  Why do you think they named it Bluff? ...
Bisti Wilderness

Bisti Wilderness

The Bisti Wilderness located south of Farmington, New Mexico is one of those special places on earth that never looks the same.  I’ve been here several times now, both in winter and summer, and find that it is tremendously influenced by light.  The...
The Sky in the Landscape

The Sky in the Landscape

The sky in the landscape determines whether or not you’ve captured the great shot.  The light, the clouds–they matter.   You could say that every landscape photo is essentially a picture of the sky with some other thing added.   And if...
Night Photography

Night Photography

In a recent visit to the Southwest, I was able to shoot night photography at Joshua Tree National Park as well as at Rhyolite Ghost Town near Death Valley National Park.  Both of these are good locations for night photography thanks to the dark skies.   To...