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Water Drop, Ice Storm, Falmouth, Maine

A 2008 storm coated trees and power lines with thick ice. After it passed, I sat beneath bent, ice-coated willow branches and captured a drop striking a pool directly in front of the lens as the shutter clicked.

#ice #Maine #photography #waterdrop #Winter
January 30, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Sunset, Chimney Rock, Ute Mountain Tribal Park, Colorado

The setting sun revealed the scene’s subtle colors and textures. As the day grayed into dusk, it reminded me of how haunting the red rock canyonlands are at this hour.

#Colorado #RedRockCountry #canyonlands #photography #sunset #landscape
January 23, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Frozen Sand, Provincetown Dunes, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

In winter, along this coast, storm winds blow sand, burying snowfall. Patches of surface cracks and dimpled hummocks form as the snow beneath alternately melts and freezes.

#CapeCod #Provincetown #dunes #photography #landscape #WinterThaw
January 16, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Winter Sun, Mount Lamborn, Paonia, Colorado

During the winter, winds carry moisture from the Pacific Ocean. pushed up against the abrupt slope of Mount Lamborn, clouds formed, and a vaporous shroud veiled the sun like a spiritual apparition.

#Colorado #mountains #clouds #photography #spiritual
January 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Dusk, Low Tide, Lincoln Beach, Oregon

Water drains from beneath Lincoln Beach’s bluffs, forming meandering streams that cross the wide sand beach to reach the Pacific Ocean’s shore. At low tide, ripples in the sand are left by waves and currents.

#PacificOcean #LincolnBeach #Oregon #landscape
January 2, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Sea Ice, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Prince Edward Island’s coast marks the southernmost extent of seasonal sea ice in North America. Thirty years ago, I watched the ice oscillate as gentle swells rolled beneath it.

#PrinceEdwardIsland #photography #SeaIce #beach #winter
December 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
AA Lava, Volcanic Field, El Pinacate, Sonoran Desert, Mexico

This strangely alluring territory felt primal; the Earth's burning interior reached out toward space, then was cooled by water and air into this tower.

#SonoranDesert #Mexico #lava #volcanoes #ElPinacate
December 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Above Imperial Rapid, Cataract Canyon, Utah

The new day’s first rays illuminated the canyon rim. In the pooled water above Imperial Rapids, reflections from the canyon walls highlighted mud-coated stones.

#Utah #ColoradoRiver #canyonlands #river
December 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Dying Vine Maple with Hanging Mosses, Hoh Rainforest, Washington

In autumn, its leaves turn a vibrant shade of red. Its bark and tentacled branches, coated with mosses and lichens, lend an ethereal appearance.

#photography #WashingtonState #OlympicNationalPark #Hoh #rainforest #landscape #nature
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Marsh Grass and Glacial Erratic, near Eastham, Massachusetts

Ten thousand years ago, a glacier left behind the sand and rocks that formed New England’s outermost shoreline. This erratic appeared as a softly glowing wonder arisen from the marsh.

#photography #landscape #CapeCod
November 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Tumalo Falls, near Bend, Oregon
I hiked to the overlook at the top of the falls. The night before, snow had fallen. Later in the morning, the sun broke through, melting the snow, leaving a race at the base of the falls.

#photography #landscape #waterfalls #canyons #mountains #Cascades #Oregon
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Looking Southwest, Mouth of Palm Canyon, Kofa Mountains, Arizona
These shaded walls of rhyolite, a volcanic rock that easily fractures into vertical ramparts framing the canyon’s entrance, and the flat, expansive La Posa Plain below.

#photography #landscape #arizona #canyon #desert #wildwest
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Schoodic Island near Winter Harbor, Maine

The elevated view east provides a broad panorama of the Gulf of Maine. Schoodic Island serves as a nesting sanctuary for eagles and seabirds. On an autumn evening, the ocean lies almost still.

#photography #Landscape #Maine #Acadia #Atlantic #Coast
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Neahkahnie Viewpoint, near Manzanita, Oregon

Waves generated across thousands of miles of the Pacific crash onto the shore in a steady rhythm of breaking swells, forming seafoam where the fog-bound coast meets a radiantly blue ocean and sky.

#photography #landscape #Oregon #OregonCoast #Pacific
October 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Muley Point Overlook, above the San Juan River, Utah

During twilight, the landscape shifts from dun-colored to iridescent hues of red, magenta, and purple. The buttes of Arizona’s Monument Valley contour the far horizon.

#landscape #photography #Utah #SanJuanRiver #canyonlands #geology #beauty
October 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Cirque, Mount Sopris, Elk Mountain Range, Colorado

I took this photograph along Mt. Sopris’ eastern ridge in the late afternoon after a recent snowfall, feeling vertiginous while captivated by the cirque's nearly vertical landscape.

#photography #landscape #colorado #mountains #sopris #geology
October 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Buckskin Gulch, Paria Canyon, Utah
As I ventured into the slot canyon, the walls closed in, forming a stunning yet phobic space. At its entrance, I photographed this muraled rock face of stained sandstone, illuminated by reflected sunlight.

#photography #landscape #Arizona #Utah #slotcanyon #beauty
October 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Deep Cove, Deer Isle, Maine

The soft dusk light mingles with the transparent water to reveal the near shore’s sandy and gravelly till, sediments from ancient glaciers. It seems as if one could wade into a bath of light.

#photography #beaches #Maine #DeerIsle #Ocean #evening #landscape #Haystack
October 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Dawn, Little Tipsoo Lake, Mt. Rainier, and Yakima Peak, Washington

A grassy meadow of wildflowers and spruce trees surrounds the lake. Mount Rainier dominates the horizon, its peak rising above a ridge of rugged volcanic pinnacles.

#LandscapePhotography #MtRainier #WashingtonState #nature
September 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Pictographs, Canyon del Muerto, Arizona

Canyon Del Muerto features pictographs from different periods of indigenous habitation. The canyon is part of a national monument that preserves a record of over 5,000 years of occupancy from the Ancestral Puebloans to the Navajo.

#pictographs #landscapes
September 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Saddle below Electric Pass, Elk Mountain Range, Colorado

In central Colorado, the Elk Mountain Range outlines the western perimeter of the Rockies. Between two peaks, lies a connecting ridge, a 'saddle', where I rested and took this photograph.

#colorado #landscapephotography #westernlandscape
September 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
East Fork, Upper Kaibito Canyon, Arizona

Hundreds of slot canyons carve the Colorado Plateau, which spans southern Utah and northern Arizona. Hidden in the canyon’s shadowed depths, this V-shaped crevasse closed in on itself.

#photography #slotcanyons #Arizona #beauty #geology #kaibito #landscape
September 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
View Facing North from Paulina Peak, Newberry Crater, Oregon

Paulina Peak is the highest point along the rim surrounding the collapsed Newberry Volcano. Resting on a thin layer of the Earth’s crust, the caldera remains volcanically active.

#photography #Oregon #volcanoes #landscape #clouds #lakes
August 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Kiger and Mosquito Gorges, Steens Mountain, Oregon

Glaciers carved out Steens Mountain's dramatic basins in southeastern Oregon. A sharp divide separates two diverging valleys: Kiger Gorge on the left and Mosquito Gorge to the right.

#photography #Oregon #NaturePhotography #mountains #glaciers
August 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Rainbow, Roaring Fork Valley, Colorado

During the summer monsoon season, clouds form, grow, and rise off the shoulders of central Colorado's Elk Mountain Range. A final streak of daylight cuts through, partially illuminating a rainbow.

#photography #rainbow #colorado #AspenColorado #clouds
August 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM