- Rock Wall, Starlight Canyon, Utah, 2009
- Cockscomb, Cottonwood Canyon, Utah 2009
- Waterfall, Starlight Canyon, Utah, 2009
- Granary, North Fork of Mule Canyon, Utah, 2009
- Owls, Starlight Canyon, Utah 2009
- Storm Over Goblin, Utah, 2009
- Trials Bring Blessings, Escalante Mountains, Utah, 2009
- The Sand King, Lower Cottonwood Canyon Road, Paria, Utah, 2009
- Cabin Window, Old Pahreah Ghost Town, Utah, 2009
- Cabin, Old Pahreah Ghost Town, Utah, 2001
- Spire, Kodachrome Basin, Utah, 2009
- Goosenecks State Park, Utah, 2009
- Blue Sky Over Goblin Valley, Utah, 2009
- Goblin Valley, Utah, 2009
- Escalante Hills, Utah, 2002
- Stone Dancer, Goblin Valley, Utah, 2009
- Cottonwood Canyon Road, Escalante, Utah, 2003
- The Cockscomb, Cottonwood Canyon Road, Paria, Utah, 2009
- Sunlit Spire, Bryce Canyon, Utah, 2009
- Burl, Bryce Canyon, Utah, 2009
- Three Kings, Goblin State Park, Utah, 2009
- Bighorn, Grand Canyon, 2005
- Butterfly, Grand Canyon, 2005
Southwestern US
By west, I mean everything west of Denver. Most of these photos are taken in the US southwest, in Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, and up the coast in Oregon and Washington into Vancouver. I wish I’d had the opportunity to get to Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho, but I have not made it back there in the decades since I starting taking photographs. Perhaps I’ll make that pilgrimage during my retirement.
It’s the openness of the western landscape that I love. Sky that big is not easy to come by on the East coast, until you reach the Atlantic, and it’s almost impossible to find on the continent (though Andalucia offers an exception). If driving is a meditation and refuge for me, then “Next services 320 mile” signs are its psalms. Though I must admit that driving now is less fun than it used to be, without enormous wolf dogs in the back of the track (and their absence also makes me feel less safe on highways, the favorite stalking ground of the western American serial killer). Still, I can’t keep away, and every time I make it back to the states I borrow my dad’s Toyota truck and head out to the hinterland.