Our image shows a designed garden with some formal components — straight and repeated lines and arranged groupings — just enough geometry to produce year-round bone structure. Overall the grounds appear as if naturally and spontaneously created, the engineering softened and concealed nicely by the architect with flowing and curved elements.    

This image comes from a locally significant nature preserve, mostly unknown among people from the larger world. On my last visit a prominently placed chalkboard on a wall in the visitor center listed more than two hundred wildlife sightings, occurring within one week — from tiny lizards to bobcats to birds of many kinds. Trees […]

I made this picture near the entrance to a famous hiking trail in Arizona. In fact the place is so heavily visited and well-trodden there is typically a wait for a parking place. In earlier times this land was privately owned and farmed, planted with orchards bearing nuts and fruits to feed its historical inhabitants. […]

When I have shown pictures like this viewers frequently ask, “Did it really look like that?” Sometimes it is hard to convince people of the truth I have seen with my own eyes. There is so much possibility for deception anymore — and so many folks holding hardened opinions — it is often fruitless to […]