Wheels and Spokes
Death Valley Junction, California
2018

Pear Portrait
Bozeman, Montana
2018

I don’t know what it is about pears more than any other fruit that makes it hard for me to resist them as photographic subjects.

Blasted Art
Victoria, British Columbia
2016

When blasting rock for a new building foundation in a densely packed urban area, some means of containing the blast’s shrapnel is necessary. In this case in downtown Victoria they used these large woven mats of recycled rubber (tires perhaps). They were quite effective. Watching them work from our fifth floor hotel window across the street, I never saw any stray material flying anywhere. Too bad they were not effective at all at containing the blast noise or the more constant machinery noise as the rubble was being cleared away. The unpleasantly noisy environment did yield this quite pleasing abstract composition–another case of suffering for my art I guess. 🙂

Just Another Face on the Wall
Lisbon, Portugal
2017

The Traveler
Bozeman, Montana
2018

My latest composite composition.

Crosswalk
Bozeman, Montana
2018

Little Things by the Sea #5
Montaña de Oro State Park, California
2018

Little Things by the Sea #4
Montaña de Oro State Park, California
2018

Sidewinder Canyon #1
Death Valley National Park, California
2017

Death Valley is big; big in size (the largest national park outside of Alaska), big in elevation change (over 11,000′ from the highest point to the lowest), and big in views (with that much elevation change and no trees to block the view you can see forever). But it is also very small and intimate as can be seen in this photo. I actually had to crawl under a pile of boulders that blocked the route into this narrow slot canyon.