Category Archives: Photography

the day the sky was busy

There’s a lot of sky out here in my part of Texas, and on days like the other Sunday, most of the best scenery is found by looking up.

Caprock Canyons State Park, Texas
photographed 12.29.2024

the temptation of the edge

I’ll end 2024 with this, a photo that has deep personal meaning to me.

And the only other thing I’ll say is that sometimes all it takes to keep going is the thinnest line of light.

the Quiraing, Scotland
photographed 11.7.2023

but we have to find our own paths

I wonder how the water decides which path to take, the exciting and fast one, or the calmer and slower one? Likewise, I wonder how people make that same decision.

(An example of the things I thought about while I stood in some very sticky mud and photographed this stream. Curiously it is also an example of why you don’t really want me to always tell you what I’ve been thinking about when I make these photos. You’re welcome.)

near Loch Leathan, Scotland
photographed 11.7.2023

eventually they became each other

It seemed like it was at the point where it was hard to tell the castle from the cliff. But to be fair, the castle has been abandoned since the 1730s so it’s not like all this happened in a few year’s time.

Duntulm Castle
Isle of Sky, Scotland
photographed 11.7.2023

lenticular

When you’re in a group of photographers that drive like hell (on one-track roads)(that sometimes have sheep standing in them) to get to the beach just in time to photograph the sunset, it’s easy to tell the members of the group who know their job, focus on the task at hand, and photograph the sunset.

Then there was me: I can’t follow directions very well and/or am easily distracted by something shiny. And it this case, I saw the tiny bit a lenticular cloud (my second favorite cloud) over there on the eastern sky and it was sufficiently shiny to get my attention.

Elgol, Scotland
photographed 11.6.2023