Looking Down
Denver, Colorado
2015

A security guard at the Denver Art Museum looking  from the top of the vertiginous stairway view. One might suppose he’s hanging on due to the disorientation, but it’s actually not so confusing looking down compared to looking up.

Vertigo
Denver, Colorado
2015

I’ve been to the Denver Art Museum a couple of times now and still the main staircase is a little disorienting. The sides of the stairway are not perpendicular to the direction of the steps themselves; they angle to the right. So if you start on the right hand side of the stairway and go straight up the stairs, you are continually getting farther and farther away from the handrail. Or if you hang onto the handrail as you go up, you are climbing the steps at an angle. Strange, and the angles of the upper floor openings just add to the disorienting feeling.

Corner Abstract
Denver, Colorado
2015

Looking up at a ceiling corner on the main staircase of the Denver Art Museum.

Open Range
Central Wyoming
2015

Most of the time when I get stopped by cows on the highway, they’re being herded from one fenced pasture to another and feel out of place enough on the road that it’s easy to intimidate them with your vehicle’s bulk and get them to move out of the way. These open range cattle however, seemed to feel quite at home lounging on the road and were definitely not intimidated by vehicles–at least not by mine. I think I’d rolled within inches of them before they finally reluctantly sauntered out of the way. It made me glad I wasn’t driving through there at 65mph at night.

Beautiful Montana day today–good enough for our first dinner of the year outside on the deck at our mountain house.

Rust Abstract
Norris, Montana
2015

Free Ride $5
Norris, Montana
2015

This rather contradictory message was painted on some old equipment in a defunct mining district west of Norris, MT. It was put there, I presume, by a bored miner with a sense of humor or a poor understanding of the basics of economics.

Still Life With Wish Rock
Bozeman, Montana
2015

Another shot from around the house. What’s a wish rock? It’s a rock of a particular color that has a ring of a different color (sometimes more than one ring) going all the way around it. If you find one, you get to make a wish on it. You can’t really tell from the photo, but that’s a wish rock on the floor next to the vase–hence the title of the image.

Living Room Abstract
Bozeman, Montana
2015

Just messing around with my camera in the living room–and with the resulting image in Photoshop.

Get Back in Line
McAllister, Montana
2015

These five sandhill cranes were walking nicely in single file, but one broke ranks before I could get my camera zoomed in and focused to take the shot.