Genre: Intimate Landscapes
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The New Hampshire Challenge
I have alluded to this in the previous two posts, but there was a distinct challenge during my one-day New Hampshire photographic marathon: so many trees with so many colors. Unlike the forests in the Western US where evergreen trees dominate, in New Hampshire the deciduous trees hold the overwhelming majority. When confronted with the
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Streamside in New Hampshire
As I continued my one-day photographic road trip around New Hampshire, the rain tempered a bit, but the skies were completely cloudy the entire day. I usually don’t complain about the light—different lighting conditions just give you different things to work with. Since there was no direct sunlight, backlit leaves weren’t going to be on
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Mammoth Hot Springs
After spending most of the day photographing in the Paradise Valley, Montana, I found myself at the north entrance to Yellowstone National Park. It was late in the afternoon and Yellowstone is a massive park, but I knew that Mammoth Hot Springs was only a few miles from this entrance. It was going to be
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Fences in Paradise
Late last week I drove my daughter to Pray, Montana, so she could attend a wedding. The perk for me was that I had a full Friday to photograph in a pretty area where I had never been. It is so pretty, in fact, that it is called Paradise Valley. The valley runs pretty much
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Ocotillo Cameo
Cameo? Be sure to read to the end! I mentioned two weeks ago that I missed the Arizona summer monsoons. (Note that the emphasis there is on the word monsoons, not summer, but of course you don’t get one without the other.) The Sonoran desert is the wettest desert in the world, and the summer
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It Fell Over Boulder Falls
A long-time friend, Erik, visited from Massachusetts last weekend. Over the years, we have been on a number of notable photographic adventures, including exploring Ragged Top in the Ironwood Forest National Monument northwest of Tucson. (That’s a very old post, so I apologize for it’s different look and feel; beautifying the prehistoric posts on this
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Paint Mine Proboscides
Just over a week ago a clickbait video appeared on my YouTube feed touting a “Hidden Gem Near Denver!” That hidden gem is Paint Mines Interpretive Park, a county park in El Paso County, Colorado. If online sources are to be believed, the park is almost 25 years old, but the park seems new and
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Peak of Spring
Back in May a long-time friend came to visit and he suggested driving to the top of Pikes Peak. From my house, it’s about an hour to get down to Colorado Springs and about another hour to get to the top of the mountain. The image above gives an idea of what the road is
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Vancouver Island Wrap
I declared that last week was the penultimate post in this series, which makes this week the ultimate post, and it is. Whether it proves to be your favorite post or even your favorite ultimate post remains to be determined, but feel free to let me know in the comments regardless. The image above is
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Sandcut Beach
This is my penultimate post about the Vancouver Island trip. Next week, as is my usual practice when wrapping up a series on a big trip, will have some lens usage statistics and an assortment of stray images that I wanted to share but never found a home for in the earlier posts. This week