Category: photography
mexico
Salvador Dali – “No way I’m returning to Mexico. I can’t stand being in a place more surreal than my paintings.” We will definitely be going back to Ciudad de Mexico and San Miguel de Allende.
fall’s swan song
A weekend fall farewell photography tour in the Kootenays, Canada. The larches are still holding on to their colors and their needles. In some places the aspens and cottonwoods are still braving the winter storms. It is fall’s last hurrah. The swan song, literally. Watch the video below. Just happened to stop at Sullivan Lake…
everything old is new again, part 2
It is fun to go visit new places. It is also (more) fun to see familiar places in a new light! The second way to see new light is to go to familiar places in different seasons, different cloud cover and different times of the day. I must have walked on the Doudy Draw…
everything old is new again, part 1
It is fun to go visit new places. It is also (more) fun to see familiar places in new light! The first way to see new light is by reimagining your old photos that are sitting on a hard drive somewhere. The best advise I got as a photographer was from a friend, a patient,…
rhus trilobata
Skunkbush sumac, three leaf sumac, sourberry. All synonyms for beauty! This is one of many sumac varietals. Sumacs are related to cashews, mangos, pistachios and poison ivy. Sourberry is native to Colorado. Wikipedia says “the bark has been chewed or brewed into a drink for cold symptoms, the berries eaten for gastrointestinal complaints and toothache,…
close to home
the larch march
The north Cascades fall colors rival the Colorado Southwest. The yellow and red contrast is what stands out the best in my opinion. In Colorado it is the quaking aspens & cottonwoods contrasting with the Gambel oaks. In the north Cascades it is the larch (tamarack) contrasting against the red ground cover of the blueberry…
fall 2022 – PWBA in southwestern colorado
Usually I take 10 days off every year in Southwestern Colorado to do PWBA (photographing while bumming around) in the Elk mountains and San Juan mountains. This year I wanted to explore other parts of the country – Washington state and Wisconsin specifically so I spent only 3 days here. Instead of grand landscapes (which…
