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Oh, I know living here would have its challenges, but when you're in it...the land, the sea, the sky...this most magnificent part of California makes the rest of the coast seem like a shadow of the real thing.

Taken in Shelter Cove one summer's eve: "Not all those who wander are lost...".

#art #photography #WestCoast #LostCoast #PacificOcean #PacificCoast #California #landscape #house #sky #nightsky #summer #sublimelandscape #AmericanWest

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The Distant Current – A lone juniper clings to the canyon's edge, high above the Canadian River. I shot this on a hike back in December 2022 with a Lumix DC-GX9 (borrowed from my husband, as my own camera at the time was...not doing well). #NewMexico #river #CanadianRiver #americanwest #americansouthwest #nature #landscape #outdoors #hiking #winter #canyon #tree #juniper #Panasonic #Lumix #micro43

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Sunset scene 2 days ago at Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas, USA #Texas #TexasPanhandle #PaloDuroCanyon #AmericanWest #autumn #nature #landscape #outdoors #clouds #sunset #hiking #Fujifilm #FujifilmXT5 #Tamron

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Park Road 5 and misty rain at Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas, USA #Texas #TexasPanhandle #PaloDuroCanyon #AmericanWest #canyon #autumn #nature #rain #storm #weather #landscape #outdoors #hiking #blackandwhite #monochrome #Fujifilm #FujifilmXT5 #Tamron

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Male collared lizard really standing out on some red rocks. I spotted him on a quick sunset hike/detour while driving back to Amarillo from Dallas last week. - Copper Breaks State Park, Texas, USA #WildlifeWednesday #Texas #CopperBreaks #americanwest #nature #wildlife #hiking #animal #lizard #collaredlizard #outdoors #fall #autumn #Fujifilm #FujifilmXT5 #Tamron

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If you lived in Pacific Palisades and gazed out to Malibu...after years of having been deprived, a sight like this feels like coming home, only it's somehow better than what you remembered.

Captured by me while LA was sweltering: "A Beautiful Day on the Lost Coast".

#art #photography #beautifullandscape #landscape #AmericanWest #LostCoast #California #WestCoast #PacificCoast #PacificOcean #mountains #sea #ocean #surf #waves

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Golden hour light illuminating a canyon; this area has recovered tremendously after an all-consuming fire 8 years ago. – Armstrong County, Texas, USA #Texas #TexasPanhandle #AmericanWest #canyon #autumn #nature #landscape #outdoors #hiking #Fujifilm #FujifilmXT5 #Tamron

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"City of Stars, Are You Shining Just For Me?"...on the Lost Coast it almost seems so, when you just walk out of a house in the middle of town in the evening and see a sky like this. Captured by me on an iPhone...no edits made (or needed).

#art #photography #sky #skyscape #nightsky #WestCoast #PacificCoast #California #AmericanWest #MilkyWay #stars #galaxy

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I'm back now, in a house by this, with my wine and my snack...and you know what? If money were no object, I'd never leave. Not for good, at any rate...

From my first visit to this magnificent "Lost Coast" of California: a shot I call "Black Sand, Kiss Me Home".

#art #photography #beach #PacificOcean #sea #ocean #California #WestCoast #PacificCoast #AmericanWest #surf

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When you've been through a lot in life, you start to understand why the night is kinder than the day...and you dread the approach of dawn. At least in a month like November it can show some small mercy, and, yes, beauty.

Captured by me: "Autumn's Twilight in Wyoming".

#art #photography #clouds #cloudscape #twilight #landscape #Wyoming #AmericanWest #sunrise #HighPlains

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Strange, isn't it, how all the best places for this ancient Japanese art are on the Pacific Rim, though they may be separated by great distances...

A view that would remind many an artist across the sea of home, if only in a small way: "Aerial Perspective".

#art #photography #forest #woods #landscape #beautifullandscape #OlympicPeninsula #summer #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #AmericanWest #WestCoast #PacificCoast

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Harvest moon rising over the canyon carved by Tierra Blanca Creek – Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge,Texas, USA #canyon #road #moon #fullmoon #moonrise #HarvestMoon #Texas #TexasPanhandle #americanwest #nature #night #landscape #outdoors #Fujifilm #Tamron

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"Take my breath away" is what I dubbed this one, for what other reaction is there to a sight like this, when you look down from Aprez-Vous summit to the Jackson valley, and up at an atmospheric river from parts unknown, bringing what we desire most of all: fresh powder. It's past equinox; it won't be long now...

#art #photography #landscape #beautifullandscape #mountains #AmericanWest #snow #winter #Wyoming #skiing #clouds

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A couple of long, long Septembers ago...the uniquely vivid color of the Pacific when the nights grow long yet the air is still about as warm as it's ever going to get.

Taken by me: "Blue Hour at Hermosa Beach".

#art #photography #sunset #twilight #ocean #sea #PacificOcean #PacificCoast #WestCoast #California #AmericanWest

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Yesterday's visitor - a young black bear. - Harding County, New Mexico, USA #NewMexico #americanwest #americansouthwest #nature #wildlife #animal #bear #blackbear #outdoors #Fujifilm #Tamron

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There's a special magic to places like this, when the clock nears midnight, and the moon rises on the pounding surf below the cliff. No wonder every light in the house is on: for here at the end of the world, "Not all who wander are lost".

Taken by me in Shelter Cove, California one clear summer's night.

#art #photography #night #nightsky #moon #moonlight #PacificCoast #WestCoast #PacificOcean #sky #skyscape #California #AmericanWest #house #forest #summer

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A short break in the storm clouds happened at just the right moment yesterday, when I was driving past some great mountain views just before sunset, allowing for some nice layered landscapes. - Mora County, New Mexico, USA #NewMexico #mountains #sunset #layers #americanwest #americansouthwest #nature #landscape #rain #sunset #mist #outdoors #Fujifilm #Tamron

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Somehow, no matter where we came from, where we're going, the clear skies of a country road after the sun goes down always feels like home...

Captured by me in California's Big Sur: "Deepest Twilight".

#art #photography #road #highway #sky #skyscape #twilight #nightsky #stars #California #WestCoast #PacificCoast #AmericanWest

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Life pro tip: if you loved the billowing skies back east but the blue-dome skies of the southwest bore you, try the *northwest* instead. Warm dry days still, but with a *lot* more cloudscapes: I see stuff like this almost every summer day I've gone. There's a *reason* rich people love it out there, and it's not just because they pay less taxes...

Captured in Montana's Kootenai: "Road to the Dream".

#art #photography #clouds #cloudscape #road #highway #summer #sunset #AmericanWest #Montana

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Evening rain rolling in on the high plains - Harding County, New Mexico, USA #horse #animal #ranching #NewMexico #nature #summer #clouds #rain #storm #outdoors #plains #HighPlains #AmericanWest #monochrome #blackandwhite #Fujifilm #FujifilmXT5 #Tamron

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Salt Flats

#pixelfed #photography #landscapephotography #roadtrip #roadphotography #desertlandscape #mountainphotography #americanwest #americanlandscape #travelphotography #cinematicphotography #moodyphotography #goldenhour #dramaticclouds #visualstorytelling #fineartphotography #documentaryphotography #minimalism #leadinglines #streetphotography #leicaphotography #leicaqp #leicacamera #photographersofpixelfed #photographylovers

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SLC

#photography #landscapephotography #landscape #naturephotography #goldenhour #sunsetphotography #greatsaltlake #utah #utahphotography #saltlakecity #americanwest #westernlandscape #desertlandscape #mountainphotography #nature #earthfocus #ourplanetdaily #visualsoflife #travelphotography #fineartphotography #cinematicphotography #lightandshadow #moodylandscape #pixelfed #photographersofpixelfed

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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

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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

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The Road to Emplazado - Harding County, New Mexico, USA #NewMexico #plains #road #mountains #rural #rain #storm #clouds #americanwest #americansouthwest #nature #landscape #outdoors #Fujifilm #Tamron

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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

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Pastel sunset over the canyon country of northeast New Mexico, USA (Harding County) #NewMexico #canyon #sunset #americanwest #americansouthwest #nature #landscape #hiking #outdoors #Fujifilm #Tamron

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Winding gravel road to somewhere, false broomweed blooming in the foreground, storm over the distant mountains - Harding County, New Mexico, USA #NewMexico#plains #road #flowers #bloom #rural #rain #storm #americanwest #americansouthwest #nature #landscape #outdoors #Fujifilm #Fujinon #Tamron

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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

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Young black bear trying to invite herself in for breakfast. - Harding County, New Mexico, USA #NewMexico #americanwest #americansouthwest #nature #wildlife #animal #bear #blackbear #outdoors #Fujifilm #Tamron

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A recent sunset in southwestern Harding County, New Mexico, USA. #NewMexico #AmericanWest #summer #nature #landscape #outdoors #canyon #sky #clouds #mountains #sunset #Fujifilm #FujifilmXT5 #Tamron

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Eleven Mile Reservoir with Spinney Mountain and more-distant peaks. I had gone up into the mountains to try to escape some very hot weather, but despite being at an elevation of about 8600 ft (2620 m), it was still quite hot up there (88° F/31°C)– and the sun's intensity seemed greater at that altitude. - Eleven Mile State Park, Colorado, USA #Colorado #lake #americanwest #nature #landscape #outdoors #hiking #summer #mountains #RockyMountains #Fujifilm #Tamron

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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

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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

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Frontier Motel & Cafe, Route 66
(2026.02.19 | Truxton, AZ | Leica SL2 & Voigtlander 50mm f/1.0 Nokton)
#route66 #truxtonaz #photography #frontiermotel #motel #roadtrip #americanwest #neon #neonsign #leica #voigtlander

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"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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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"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

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Golden hour light illuminating grassy ridges on a hike at Lake Meredith last month. The day was unseasonably warm. - Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, Texas, USA #Texas #TexasPanhandle #LakeMeredith #lake #water #sunset #americanwest #sunset #nature #landscape #goldenhour #outdoors #winter #sky #clouds #Fujifilm #hiking

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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

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The iconic, giant cross of Groom, Texas. It stands at 190 feet tall (58 m) and is positioned just off historic Route 66 and modern Interstate 40. I did NOT wake up to witness/shoot the eclipse at 5 am the other day, but instead, I got several moonrise shots the previous evening near Groom. I actually didn't get my planned shot, because clouds low on the eastern horizon prevented it, but I got several hectic consolation shots, of which this was one. (Shot handheld as a single exposure.) - Groom, Texas, USA #Texas #TexasPanhandle #moon #moonrise #fullmoon #sunset #Route66 #americanwest #nature #night #outdoors #winter #dusk #sky #cross #Fujifilm

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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