Bougainvillea Blast
Ajo, Arizona
2025

Bougainvillea seems to be a major yard plant of choice in Ajo, and they’re really showing their stuff right now.

Mary’s Gardener
Ajo, Arizona
2025

The Opposite of Vengeance
Ajo, Arizona
2025

Adding to the mystery.

My Past Vengeance
Ajo, Arizona
2025

A curiously cryptic message sprayed on the side of an otherwise unremarkable stripped car. It had me really wanting to know what spawned that message. Adding to the intrigue is that the license tag on the back of the car shows an expiration day well into this year, even though the car has obviously been sitting there a long time. Quite the mystery.

Night Door
Ajo, Arizona
2025

There’s something about a dimly lit door at night that exudes intrigue–or maybe I’ve just watched too many film noir movies.

Pony Express
Ajo, Arizona
2025

The Way West
Ajo, Arizona
2025

I’m back to riding some familiar trails on my bike. I rode them extensively when we were here last year and am planning on doing the same this time around. I really enjoy the expansive views and the minimal (although sadly increasing) number of people I encounter out there.

Me and Your Shadow
Ajo, Arizona
2025

The shadow from the closer palm tree fills in nicely for the obscured base of the palm tree behind the wall. I was just sitting on the plaza drinking tea when I happened to notice this conjunction. It was very specific to that exact time and the exact position I was sitting in. A few minutes earlier or later or a foot or two away from where I was sitting, I would not have seen this.

Orion and Company
Tucson Mountains, Arizona
2024

Another night view of the sky taken from west of Tucson, in the same spot about the same time as the one I posted two days ago. What accounts for the color difference in the sky is that two different cameras were used. This one was using my cell phone while I used a “real” camera for the previous one. I did not alter the color of either of the photos, what you see is basically what the camera produced. So if someone tells you they did not manipulate a photo from their camera so it is hence is a true representation of what they took a photo of, you should not necessarily believe them. Cameras (and any associated software used to get an image out there on the internet) do their own often unique manipulation by default, even when no human tweaking is applied.

I like the blue color of this one and that I can easily make out the constellation Orion, one of the quite small number of constellations I can quickly recognize in the night sky. Interestingly I find it a bit harder to pick out Orion in this photo than I did just looking up at it in the sky. That’s because the photo brought out many more faint stars than what my eye sees, thus hiding Orion behind or among a much larger collection of stars than I’m used to seeing with my naked eye.

Locomotive Rock
Ajo, Arizona
2025

Like last year we are again spending time in Ajo, Arizona. And also like last year I’m spending quite a bit of time riding my bike around on the various desert trails. So already I’m finding myself photographing some of the same things I photographed last year. Locomotive Rock is a good example. Hopefully I am photographing these repeat subjects in enough of a different way this year to justify posting the new images. I’m not quite sure I achieved that in this case though. Compare the photo above to last year’s photo of Locomotive Rock below. The new photo was taken from farther away than the one from last year, but at almost the same angle. There is haze in the sky in both photos, more this year than last year. But overall, it’s much the impression of the two images is much the same.