Featured Image – “Garden of the Gods in Fog”

First light and a bit of early morning fog in Colorado Springs’ “Garden of the Gods” or, as my grandchildren have renamed it “God’s Garden”. For those unfamiliar with Colorado Springs, this is a city park. It has to be one of the most spectacular city parks anywhere. What this image doesn’t show is the mule deer doe who walked up...

Learn More

Featured Image – “Lone Peak Mountain”

Lone Peak Mountain is in northwest Oklahoma’s “Glass Mountain State Park”. These red bluffs look like something right of a Zane Grey novel. This is indeed the Old West. “Glass Mountain State Park” is an interesting name. Locals pronounce it “Gloss” but it’s usually spelled “Glass”.  There are some colorful...

Learn More

Featured Image – “In Wildness is the Preservation of the World”

– Pioneering color photographer Eliot Porter quoted Thoreau for the title of his 1962 monograph, In Wildness is the Preservation of the World. This image reminded me of Porter’s work so I referred to his book in the title. I have often tried to capture in a photograph the wild tangle of natural order. I think this photograph does that. Look past the tangle of...

Learn More

Featured image – “Polychrome Pass in Clouds”

Welcome. Thanks for taking the time to visit. Poke around awhile and enjoy the photographs. I’m glad you are here. I’m going to take the opening entries of this blog to introduce the photographs on the opening slide show. I chose them because they are ones with which I am especially pleased (and because I could get them to fit the shape needed for the slide...

Learn More