When I posted this sunset shot to Facebook last night my friend and fellow photographer Geraint wrote "Biblical, dude!" I agree. With the light streaming down out of the clouds there was something about Heaven Beacons to the whole thing. Just…
Scary Picture Monsoons again and again. I know. Sorry but it is the best time of year in Northern New Mexico as far as I am concerned. Here is a shot from just over the border in Southern Colorado's San…
Photograph of Rainbow I covered the monsoons currently taking place in the southwestern United States in detail last week. Still, they never fail to impress. Last Saturday afternoon there was a fairly brief but intense downpour. I was on…
The first pictures from above the Earth come in the form of a drawing. From the Astra Castra, about 4,000 feet above the River Dee, Thomas Baldwin drew rainy cumlo-nimbus clouds below, roads curving through fields, grids of villages and…
The monsoon dresses New Mexico by mid-July every year. Here, the mission church at San Ildefonso Pueblo catches the waning late-morning sunshine of a monsoon afternoon. It didn't take long for the dark, wet clouds behind the structure to move…
Summer solstice 2012 finds the West on fire. Smoke-filled summer days have become the new normal. If it isn't Arizona burning it's Colorado burning. Or it's New Mexico burning. My nose is full in the morning and my throat hoarse…
From the ancient stone villages and fortified chateaux of the Knights Templar dotting the foothills that turn to the great wine plains of the Gare, Garrone and to Aquitaine it looks like a lonely outpost of bristling towers and domes…
Helsinki The skyline of Helsinki Finland and the Baltic Sea beyond on March 12, 2012. Taken from the Atelje Bar on top of Hotel Torni just after sunset. ISO 100, f/7.1, 4.0s I spent the day recovering from the last…
Today's photo is dedicated to my friend Barbara Wold, who passed yesterday afternoon. Barb was the owner of the influential progressive blog Democracy for New Mexico. Barb had always been a strong supporter of my writing and she stood by…
For a very short time yesterday, we got some blue sky and just for a moment, Taos Mountain rose above the clouds. By mid-afternoon is was snowing again. The wind howled all night. As I type, the temperature is -10C,…
