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roadside wings

The clouds seem to mirror the wings on the cross, like the spirit of the person has ascended skyward.

Bailey County, Texas
photographed 8.17.2025

silhouettes and sunset

I mentioned the other day that the sunset at the salt pans in Trapani didn’t work out as well as we’d hoped, but then again – there’s not really anything wrong with a sunset that looks like this.
It’s the best sunset I’ve ever seen in Trapani, if you know what I mean.

Trapani, Sicily
photographed 2.2.2025

half-way

 

About half way up the drive to Los Alamos there’s a scenic pullout, and “normal” travelers might pull over long enough to take some selfies and/or glance across the landscape before they get back in their cars and resume the trip.

Photographers (who are almost never in the “normal” camp) will pull over, turn off the car, get out cameras and lenses and tripods and ND filters, and spent a long-ass time making photos.

In case you were wondering why it takes photographers practically forever to get anywhere.

between Pojoaque and Los Alamos, New Mexico
photographed 6.30.2024

slide damage

I have a small body of work that includes playground equipment. Slides are particularly well-represented, for some reason.*

This slide, which looks to have had an encounter with a vehicle, is my current favorite. (And will be, too, until I the next time I see a playground that needs photographing.)

Weed, New Mexico
photographed 7.3.2023

*I like them. That’s the reason.

Downpour

We took a more-or-less aimless drive the other day, eventually ending up on a road just because the map indicated a cemetery along the way. As a bonus, that route pointed us right toward some afternoon storms that were building up. And then, as a double-bonus, just when we got to the cemetery one of the clouds, off in the distance, decided it was time to rain.

Crosby County, Texas
photographed 7.25.2021