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Modus Operandi
Ajo, Arizona
2024

My choice of transportation for touring the desert.

Rush Hour in the Desert
Ajo, Arizona
2024

I rode my bicycle out in the desert several times a week during the month of January and in that whole time I think saw another vehicle, two or four wheeled, three times.

In Between
Ajo, Arizona
2024

Rode Hard and Put Up Wet
Ajo, Arizona
2024

False Flag
Ajo, Arizona
2024

Rain is pretty much always welcome in the desert, but on this day all it got was an impressive false flag cloud show.

Windmill Heights
Ajo, Arizona
2024

A view up an old water pumping windmill. The long ladder leading up to a very small platform with no guardrails had me feeling a little bit acrophobic even though my feet were firmly planted on the ground.

Life Finds a Way
Ajo, Arizona
2024

A Little Off the Top
Ajo, Arizona
2024

Some barbers just don’t know when to stop.

Saguaro de los Muertos
Ajo, Arizona
2024

I was out riding my bike on old desert mining trails when I came across this ominous looking saguaro at a trail crossroads.

Day of the Dead Parade
Mexico City
2017
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Circle of Influence
Ajo, Arizona
2024

I was taken not only by how nearly perfect the circle of this anthill was but also by how crisp its edges were. I would have thought that the disturbed pile of sand would gradually taper off rather than form an abrupt edge. But that’s probably just the statistician in me trying to assign some probability distribution to the distance from the hole that each ant feels like carrying a grain of sand. Instead of thinking statistically though, perhaps I would gain a better understanding by reading up on anthill engineering. Who knows if there’s even a book or website out there covering the topic, but I’m sure there’s at least a bunch of biology master’s theses on the subject sitting around in university libraries across the country.