Eaves

This abstract shot of famed Santuario de Chimayo, sometimes called The Lourdes of North America, captures the overhanging roof line in deep shadow. It takes most folks a few seconds to figure out what it is.

My Guitar

My sweet Scott Conley guitar is a true work of art both musically and aesthetically. I bought it after playing hordes of beautiful instruments at Buck Dancer's in Portland, Maine. The sound blew my socks off and the waist and hip of the thing are downright sensuous

Blanca Peak and Neighbors

You don't get a lot of straight landscapes from me since I like to include an architectural or man made component whenever possible. None here unless you give me credit for the haystacks.

Open Book

As much as Ranchos Church had been painted and photographed over the years it has a way of showing a new face if you look closely enough. Such was the case in glowing sunset light.

Other World

This emerald green drainage channel of a salt farm in the Mohave Desert was too weird to pass up. The enormous evaporation operation is the primary employer for the tiny village of Amboy. It would take an unusual character to embrace the Amboy life.

Heavy Silence

The sculler's stroked silently as the early morning fog clung to the Connecticut River in Putney, Vermont.

Agave

This photograph played a big role in switching from film to digital way way back. Taken with a five megapixel point and shoot it had acuity and tons of sweet mid-tones. I had recently purchased a new 4x5 but soon bagged the big box and bought an early Canon 1Ds.

Ranchitos Fog

The fog hung like a gauzy cloak over the grass and nettles on my little ranch in the flats of Taos.

Air of Melancholy

This one's late folks. On the road and life's a blur. The model here gazes inwardly or so it seems. Later she bid me adieu saying that she was nursing a hangover the size of Montana. Only Alaska, Texas and Montana have bigger morning afters.

Outdoor Dining

This was shot from directly above the stool and table after a light rain. The spoon punctuates the forms in a tableau of the ordinary.

Suspension

I like the way this wire gate hangs suspended between crude posts. The dirt road beyond meanders south into the barrens of sage and chamisa.

Barnicles

Often the most compelling photographs make you wonder what you're looking at. Such is the case with these barnicles on a large rock shaped like a ship's prow in Monhegan Island harbor.

Latch

In honor of the passing winter here's the hood of a favorite relic with a cozy blanket of fresh snow.

White Caps

I've often used the Great Sand Dunes of southern Colorado as an analogy for the ocean. Here the snow tipped ridges of jagged sand formations feel very much like light chop on a frigid sea.

Zoom Zoom Zoom

The arid expanse of West Texas is called the South Plains. This is oil and farming country that seems bleak in its austere nothingness. It's a place that saw its apex many, many years ago. A shuttered grain elevator in the sleepy town of Sudan is emblematic of the shallow decline that grips the Texas Panhandle.

Rio Seco

This wide, dry river twists through the Pojoaque Pueblo about 20 miles north of Santa Fe. In the background looms Truchas Peak and a monumental sky for which New Mexico is justly famous.

Totem

Some enterprising soul created this monument to manual labor in rural New Mexico. We can't know the impetus but it's skyward aim is compelling.

Ferrous Abstraction

One day in northern New Hampshire I chanced upon a graveyard of heavy equipment. As happens from time to time this was one of those places and moments when the photography gods were smiling.

Statuesque

Her back is quite powerful and beautiful at the same time.

Bunker Mentality

Battery Godfrey in San Francisco's Presidio is the gift that keeps on giving. Just couldn't take a bad shot in the place. As the fog moved through the WW1 battlement took on an eerie quality.