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Heading West
Whitewater Draw, Arizona
2023

Straight Across
Whitewater Draw, Arizona
2023

In the End, Crows Inherited the Earth
Bozeman, Montana
2023

That’s not how it was supposed to go.

Piled High
Whitewater Draw, Arizona
2023

I took a lot, as in several thousand photos of the sandhill cranes flying around at Whitewater Draw. (It’s easy to get that number of images in fairly short order if, like many cameras, mine will take 15-20 photos a second in burst mode.) A lot of those images were trashed immediately when I went through them at home due to poor focus, lighting, or other reasons. But a huge number remain. What I found when going through them is that I’m just not that interested in them the same way I am with crows, ravens, and other corvids. At least that’s true if they aren’t “posing” in some interesting way anyhow. So I won’t be posting many of them here, but will show a few if for no other reason than I spent so much time on them, both taking the photos and sorting through them all! I liked this image because of the way the four birds were stacked vertically.

How to Stand Out in a Crowd
Whitewater Draw, Arizona
2023

When you’re one in literally thousands wearing the same outfit, you have to do something special to stand out.

Taking a Dump on Main Street
Bisbee, Arizona
2023

My apologies for the rather crude title for this image. I was practicing my click-bait skills, and got carried away.

Don’t Be You!
Bisbee, Arizona
2023

Like the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come in Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, this somewhat disturbing scene in the backstreets of Bisbee is perhaps a portent of what a tortured mind might become if you allow it.

Danger Everywhere
Bisbee, Arizona
2023

It’s a little know fact that urban rock hippos are even more dangerous than their river dwelling relatives in Africa.

I Am Not the Enemy
Bisbee, Arizona
2023

I love the contrast of this very American harsh-looking junk pickup with the trees in the background which, by happenstance, do a good approximation of the feel of a classic Japanese painting such as this one:

Social Media #27
Bisbee, Arizona
2023

The term “social media” is so strongly tied to various forms of digital communication these days that it’s easy to forget that media in a broad sense just refers to any method of conveying information or expressing ideas. In that sense, social media is only recently a digital phenomenon and in fact has existed in other forms for, well, centuries or millennia. I came to this realization some years ago when considering large flat rocks in the southwest covered with myriad, almost overlapping, ancient petroglyphs conveying information or expression of ideas to others that might happen by. Since then I have been occasionally photographing other instances of social media along the continuum of technological sophistication from petroglyphs to twitter tweets, as well as the interesting remnants of those postings. (Yesterday’s POTD would fit into this collection as well, although I chose to name it otherwise.)