The town wasn't Chamonix to say the least...but Christmas on a slope like this was so much fun. I'd like to return one day...
Taken on Jackson Hole's South Pass Traverse: "Winter Wonderland".
#art #photography #winter #snow #skiing #ski #mountains #forest #landscape #beautifullandscape #AmericanWest
I've cursed LA a lot lately, but looking back on that fateful first visit, I'm struck by how there's no feeling quite like discovering that yes, every flicker onto the silver screen that defined your childhood is *real*. Even if only in lonesome glimpses of atmosphere...
Captured by me one February, looking northwestward from Santa Monica: "Malibu Fading".
#art #photography #sky #skyscape #sunset #twilight #California #landscape #AmericanWest #WestCoast #PacificCoast #PacificOcean
A memento to the season that was, the sweet embrace of Cascadian summer: "Sailing off into the Twilight on Puget Sound"...
#art #photography #sailing #boat #sea #sunset #twilight #PacificCoast #PugetSound #Cascadia #WashingtonState #PacificNorthwest #AmericanWest #WestCoast
We get a full-fledged outer band from a tropical storm here in Southern California, and what does it look like? More marine-layer-esque stratiform, of course. Give me more of this, please...I witnessed these beauties on the road in Wyoming last November (yes, In *winter*...the High Plains are something else...).
A photo I call "Chasing the Storm"...
#art #photography #storm #clouds #cloudscape #sky #skyscape #sublimelandscape #americanWest #HighPlains #Wyoming
So close you can reach out and touch them, those points of light that show the way, to "Where We're Going".
Captured one winter's night at Badwater Basin.
#art #photography #stars #nightsky #skyscape #sky #BadwaterBasin #DeathValley #desert #AmericanWest #California #DesertSouthwest #space
The most uninhabitable shirt-sleeve environment in the solar system...and you don't have to go as far as Artemis II to visit it. In fact, it's within a day's drive of Los Angeles. But beware: you might not come out the same as you went in.
Taken where the vibes begin, in the Panamint Valley: "Leave Behind Life".
#art #photography #landscape #sublimelandscape #DeathValley #AmericanWest #desert #California #road #roadway #highway #roadtrip
"Dawn Will Turn to Silver Glass"...one of the most magical mornings I've ever been, and it was all because of the ripples and rapids of this little stream.
Taken by me in the Sierra Nevada last April.
#art #photography #stream #river #creek #California #SierraNevada #sunrise #landscape #beautifullandscape #AmericanWest
Like many things Pacific Northwest few outsiders are aware of it, but wine country extends into *Idaho*, courtesy of the gorges of the Columbia and Snake River systems that place you in a realm evocative of an alien planet.
A capture of that vibe one summer evening in far western Idaho: "Golden Hour in Wine Country".
#art #photography #AmericanWest #wine #vineyard #Idaho #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #sky #skyscape #sunset #landscape
I was warned of the smell of dead fish, yet I show up and it's...fine? Oh, I'm sure the Salton Sea has its nasty side, but there's no place else quite like these "Desert Shores", as I call this shot: captured on my first-ever night I saw the place last year.
#art #photography #dusk #twilight #landscape #AmericanWest #California #desert #SaltonSea #beach #lake
It's almost that time of the year again: when the Plains come alive with whispers of nature's greatest fury, and the lovers of the sublime hit the road, "Chasing the Storm".
Captured by me in Wyoming.
#art #photography #clouds #cloudscape #sky #skyscape #landscape #sublimelandscape #HighPlains #AmericanWest #Wyoming #thunderstorm
A scene you can *easily* picture the silhouette of a horseman strutting into. Haunted? Supernatural? A "mere" legendary gunslinger? Or perhaps just your everyday cowgirl out to see the stars when the clouds part and the moon shines...
"Twilight on the High Plains", captured by yours truly in eastern Montana.
#art #photography #twilight #sky #skyscape #clouds #cloudscape #sunset #HighPlains #Montana #AmericanWest
They lie down a road seldom traveled, but it's perhaps the most beautiful grassland in the world: the Palouse Hills. When the fields bloom and the long, warm days of summer hit them just right, it does something for the soul...
"Rolling Dreams", captured by yours truly.
#art #photography #landscape #beautifullandscape #Palouse #PacificNorthwest #AmericanWest #WashingtonState #Northwest #grassland #prairie #fields
"Black Sand, Kiss Me Home". Iceland? Nope! California...but a part of the state so remote they call it "The Lost Coast", for the main roads don't go there. Thinking of the light of the sun, the unique sound of that surf, the spectacular beauty of the landscape...I have to go back. Some day...
#art #photography #ocean #sea #PacificOcean #PacificCoast #WestCoast #sunset #California #surf #waves #beach #coast #AmericanWest
People who say the California coast is soooo crowded must not have ever left Los Angeles; just a few hours north, it gets really remote, really fast...remote enough to see the stars as surely as in the desert, but with a marine quality to the atmosphere all its own.
Taken by me one summer on the central coast: "Big Sky over Big Sur".
#art #photography #nightsky #sky #skyscape #galaxy #MilkyWay #stars #California #WestCoast #PacificCoast #AmericanWest
Little did I know this would be the last visit to the beach before Pacific Palisades was no more...but what a beautiful night it was.
Captured January 5, 2025: "The Last Wave".
#art #photography #sunset #California #sea #ocean #AmericanWest #PacificCoast #WestCoast #PacificOcean #beach #sky #skyscape #clouds #cloudscape
Because it is still *that* time of the year: when the snow flies, the landscape has that blanket of champagne white, and the air itself is sharp as the pine needles around you. OK, I know not the best poetry, but I really do love this picture I took at Jackson Hole: "Winter Wonderland" (I'm not the best skier, but I know a fun slope when I see one).
#art #photography #winter #snow #mountains #Wyoming #AmericanWest #skiing #forest #woods #JacksonHole
Like my favorite vista of Malibu draped with the rugged lushness of the Pacific Northwest. They call it the Lost Coast, but perhaps Shelter Cove, despite or, perhaps, because of its remoteness, is "True California".
Captured by me last July.
#art #photography #beach #ocean #sea #sky #skyscape #sunset #twilight #California #PacificOcean #WestCoast #PacificCoast #AmericanWest
A gradient out of a dream...and, looking back on it, perhaps it was, for this sunset came from the last days of Pacific Palisades. Captured by me: "Pallette of Paradise".
#art #photography #sunset #twilight #sky #skyscape #California #WestCoast #sea #ocean #PacificOcean #PacificCoast #AmericanWest
Fresh thick snow is already wondrous enough, but add in freezing fog from the water, and it might be one of the most wintry vistas you'll ever lay eyes on. Captured during a recent epic winter at Mono Lake: "Winter Way".
#art #photography #winter #snow #California #AmericanWest #SierraNevada #MonoLake #landscape #ice #fog #road #highway #roadway
"Sunset in the Lost World"...well, Ventura, but you have to admit, with the Earth in the state it's in today, it doesn't look like it comes from our realm of reality at all. But this isn't "reality": it's California.
#art #photography #California #sunset #sky #skyscape #cloudscape #clouds #landscape #WestCoast #PacificCoast #PacificOcean #AmericanWest
They knew I'd be back before it was even time to get myself blonded again...somehow they knew, the inhabitants of a realm that, like the Nexus in Star Trek, you never forget: "Sunbeam Calling Me Home".
#art #photography #WestCoast #California #PacificOcean #beach #PacificCoast #ocean #sea #West #AmericanWest
"Bonsoir, Palouse". Perhaps the most picturesque prairie in the world, right outside the charming (and friendly!) college town of Pullman, Washington, captured by yours truly.
#art #sunset #landscape #beautifullandscape #Palouse #AmericanWest #sky #skyscape
Yes, it's at a hotel that's owned by Hilton; yes, it's right next to a freeway; but here, in California's wine country, none of that seems to really matter, for here is where the gods' gift to mankind bears fruit. My capture of this ambiance, "Vines of Heaven".
#art #photography #landscape #California #WestCoast #PacificCoast #AmericanWest #WineCountry #wine #SonomaValley #Sonoma
Across the largest ocean in the world, yet to the Japanese painters of old, this land might have felt like home...
Captured by yours truly from the Olympic Peninsula, "Aerial Perspective".
#art #photography #landscape #beautifullandscape #AmericanWest #OlympicPeninsula #Cascadia #WashingtonState #WestCoast #PacificCoast #forest #woods #summer
Among the easiest of the "blue runs", but by far the most fun for a beginner: Jackson Hole's South Pass Traverse, captured in the magical ambiance of a Christmas snowstorm, a true "Winter Wonderland".
#art #photography #snow #winter #skiing #AmericanWest #JacksonHole #Wyoming #forest #woods #wintersports #snowstorm #mountains
It wasn't July 4, exactly, on the calendar...but it should have been. A summer's eve near the very center of the United States, providing the most sublime version of nature's fireworks the world has to offer...
My own capture of a "Storm rising at Devil's Tower".
#art #photography #clouds #cloudscape #sublimelandscape #landscape #sky #skyscape #summer #thunderstorm #supercellthunderstorm #AmericanWest #Wyoming #DevilsTower
Summer just hits differently when you're up here: the purity and beauty of a "Sunrise at Yellowstone", captured by yours truly one July morning.
#art #photography #sky #skyscape #sunrise #clouds #cloudscape #forest #Yellowstone #AmericanWest
