Genre: Grand Landscapes
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Autumn Drive in Northern Colorado
In early October—before our visit to Michigan—we spent a weekend in Leadville, Colorado. Family events collided with our getaway, so we ended up spending one day driving north to Wyoming and back. It was dark on the return trip, but on the way up we got to enjoy driving through valleys sporting some fall color.
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Rocky Mountain Ranch
Heeney, Colorado. October 2025.
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Michigan Five-O
The title of this post is a nod to the popular TV show of my youth, of which I remember nothing other than the intro and theme song and a single oft-repeated line: “Book ’em, Danno.” While Hawaii was the fiftieth state to join the Union (from which the TV show got its name), it
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Off the Pavement
We’ll start this week’s set of images with a few that feature limestone pavements. I talked about these a few weeks ago, too, so I won’t repeat that discussion here. For someone who has lived and photographed in the desert southwest of the US, these formations are both foreign and fascinating. They don’t have the
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Flowers and Stones
Yorkshire, England. June 2025.
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Yorkshire Dales Panorama
Yorkshire, England. June 2025.
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An Anamorphic Outing
Decades ago I had copies of The Joy of Photography and More Joy of Photography, both published by the Eastman Kodak company. One of those two books—I suspect it was the latter—had a spread about photographing with an anamorphic lens. I remember a picture of soccer players that looked like models for African folk art
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Seventy Minutes of Sonoita Skies
I mentioned last week that I missed the Arizona summer monsoons. (Note that the emphasis there is on the word monsoons, not summer.) The monsoons tend to roll in from the southeast, so if you head southeast from Tucson the desert will be getting, on average, more and more rainfall. I’m planning a future post
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10,000 Sunsets
I love my new home in Colorado for a lot of reasons, but after living in Tucson for 29 years, there are a few things I really miss. We recently found a Mexican restaurant that makes us feel like we are in Arizona, so I think that issue is resolved. The two remaining biggies are
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Pink over Pawnee
Last weekend I was rather dismayed when I saw a picture of saguaros silhouetted against a magenta aurora sky; after 29 years of living in an auroraless Arizona, I had some serious image envy. Not only that, but I hadn’t made any effort to go look for the aurora in Colorado, where it would have