I woke up to about 6 inches of fresh snow in Laramie (!) and decided to go on a long walk with my dog along the creek in town as the powder was falling. I’ll leave you with this poem to express my morning. Fresh snow can be so beautiful if you can overcome the warmth of…
A lot about Wyoming hasn’t changed over the years and there are still a lot of wild places where the antelope roam free. This particular image is from Dubois, Wyoming, nestled in the beautiful Wind River Valley. In particular there are a few lines below that seems to ring true for this photograph. I‘m sure a lot of…
There’s something alluring about large powerful amounts of water spilling over thousands of years of volcanic rocks made from the very volcano still currently sitting literally beneath your feet. The mist produced at the the base of the classic Lower Falls in Yellowstone was beautifully illuminated and required a telephoto lens to really be able to look…
I forgot just how beautiful Wyoming can be! This is a image from a sunset I had long forgotten about until stumbling back upon it today. Myself, a friend, and our dogs were camped out by Fontenelle Reservoir in South West Wyoming on the open plain while doing some field research in the area. This…
I love driving the long desolate stretches of road in Wyoming. They allow for so much time to think and to ponder the fact that years ago Native Americans roamed this land for hundreds of years before the first Western settlers ever even tried to cross this very same road. But they didn’t have a…
This photography may look like a nice pleasant sunset out on the plains of Laramie, Wyoming, but photographs don’t capture wind very well (at least not this one!). In Laramie, where the wind is always blowing, my walk across these plains just outside of town was through 40 mph winds that added a significant wind…
Since my mind has been drifting towards spring with this mild winter, I thought I would share this one. If you’ve ever been to the San Rafael Swell in Utah, you know how powerful the landscape is there. While on a geology trip led by a fellow Exxon Geologist, he took to this site where he used…
“Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.” – Pablo Picasso I am trying something a little new for me: digital manipulation of my photos. Since I don’t have the gift of painting, I thought that I would…
I took this photo about a month ago. We have had such a warm winter, that miraculously the dirt roads leading into some of my favorite places are clear enough for my car to get through! I loved the texture of the dirt and the snow as the setting sun cast a warm glow on…