Palo Duro Canyon A hot summer day from the floor of Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas panhandle. This is a rather classic composition much in the same tradition as Ansel Adams’ Mt. Williamson. The photograph was made with 6×7 Fuji Velvia on a very hot summer day. The canyon is a Texas state park near Amarillo in the Texas panhandle. It’s the second largest canyon in the United States. You can walk or drive most anywhere in the park but watch out for the rattlesnakes. Palo Duro Canyon is a very special...
read moreSunset on Mt. Scott I had photographed these two Juniper trees on top of Mt. Scott before. On this occasion I used a Pentax 67 and a 105mm lens. The lens is shorter than the one used before so the sun is not as large as my previous photograph. The large 6×7 Velvia chrome provides much better image quality than the 35mm Kodachrome of the first one and the camera is set in an entirely different location. I had the first image in mind but wanted the 6×7 image quality. It’s interesting how different the two images are even though...
read moreFirst 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 behind me to watch me work and then stood only a couple of feet away posing for her pictures while chewing her morning leaves. Quite a...
read moreLone 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 stories about the name. One tale is that, when the area was first settled, a traveler from England called the area the “Glass Mountains” because of the sparkling...
read more– 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 branches, leaves, and undergrowth to see the order of nature. Not the neatness we humans look for but the order from chaos that is natural order. This photograph was made...
read moreWelcome. 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 show). So we’ll start with “Polychrome Pass in Clouds”. Polychrome pass is in Denali National Park. After a long bus ride (the only way to get there) over a...
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