January 1, 2019Tops Big Boy statue along highway 16 (North Fork Highway) near Wapiti, Wyoming. Really, it's there...
January 7, 20192017 - Newcastle, Wyoming
January 14, 2019Little Moon of the Oglala Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
January 21, 2019 Iggy's Diner is a Route 66 landmark in Carthage, MO.Great breakfast!
January 29, 2019 Old saddle and lariatBlack Hills Wild Horse SanctuaryHot Springs, SD
February 6, 2019Goose in the window at 120 Don Gaspar Ave. Santa Fe, NM(not there now)
February 11, 2019Jackalope and Jackalope Pheasant (Wolpertinger–look it up) for sale at Wall Drug, in Wall SD.
February 19, 2019Cow Canyon Trading Post at US Highways 191 & 163 in Bluff, Utah.
March 3, 2019Kachina dolls at the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park gift shop in northeast Navajo County, Arizona.
March 11, 2019Tower Optical brand coin-operated binoculars at the Spencer Smith waterfront park in Burlington, ON.
March 18, 2019The Methodist Church in the ghost town of Bodie, CA .
March 25, 2019Sunrise at the junkyard in Death Valley Junction, CA
April 1, 2019"Sacred Monument" Horse Tour concession near Goulding's Trading Post, Oljato-Monument Valley, UT.
April 8, 2019The Great Buddha of Kamakura (鎌倉大仏) on the grounds of the Kōtoku-in Temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. This statue is the largest Buddha in Japan.
April 15, 2019Bullfight at Plaza de Toros in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
April 25, 2019Manhole cover in Kingston, Ontario
April 28, 2019Painted sign for Stanley’s Kitchen & Tap in Lincoln Park, Chicago. Sadly, now closed...
May 10, 2019Scheherazade, the bar keep at the Ski Inn located in Bombay Beach along the Salton Sea in California.That is her real name-it seems her dad had just read "One Thousand and One Arabian Nights" and said if he ever had a girl, he would name her Scheherazade. He did and then he did.
May 16, 2019Pelican begging food at the St. Petersburg Pier in St. Petersburg, Florida.
May 21, 2019Building detail from Prairie Materials-Yard 32 located in downtown in Chicago, Illinois.
May 28, 2019Building facade in the La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
June 4, 2019Man with two burros in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
June 11, 2019Sunrise in Wall, South Dakota near the 80 foot Wall Drug Dinosaur.
June 21, 2019Four ladies with matching blouses on holiday at the Prince of Wales Hotel in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada.(I have no idea why they have matching blouses.)
June 26, 2019Grain elevators in Endicott, Washington – the Palouse region of Washington State.
July 5, 2019 · Wrapped sculptures at the corner of 52nd Street and the Avenue of the Americas (6th Ave) in NYC.The two sculptures by artist Jim Dine are bronze renderings of "Venus de Milo" statues and with a 3rd sculpture on 53rd street are collectively titled "Looking Toward the Avenue".I happened to be in NYC in the fall of 1989 when the sculptures were being delivered and were still wrapped. Only recently did I happen to walk by and realize the wrapped sculptures weren't the final art. So, now I feel better about "owning it".
July 8, 2019The "Texas Theatre" in Bronte, TX was built and operated by the Wojtek brothers, who also had the Alamo Theatre in Robert Lee, TX. Both theatres were in continuous operation from at least 1940 until the late-1970’s.This image was shot on a road trip to Big Bend National Park, Texas with my buddy Carl Cory while he was doing a project shooting ghost towns. Sometime in the mid to late 1980's (can't remember the year, can you Carl?).N 31° 53.260 W 100° 17.628
July 16, 2019Graveyard at Whalers Bay on Deception Island which is part of the South Shetland Islands in Antarctica.The grave on the left is for Hans Albert Gulliksen born 7/4 1871, died 4/1 1928. At the time of his death, he was working in the whaling industry as a carpenter, as indicated by the title "Tømmerm." used on his grave marker.These two graves are the only ones that survived a volcanic eruption on Deception Island in 1969. The cemetery is an official Historic Site or Monument, Number 71, in accordance with the Antarctic Treaty that was entered into force in 1961.
July 24, 2019Cowboy silhouette lampshade in a log cabin at the Cody Cowboy Village in Cody, WY.Watch out for the feral rabbits!
July 31, 2019Elvis is dead...Image shot of Elvis Presley's grave in the Meditation Garden at Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tennessee. The flowers at the grave are an average accumulation left daily by visitors. Just before I shot this, a lady had knelt down and left some flowers, paused and walked away. The guard said she showed up with flowers nearly every day he's worked there...I chose not to invade her privacy by photographing her.
August 10, 2019Lifeguard shack on Siesta Key Beach in Sarasota, Florida.
August 19, 2019Sunset behind Booth Island in the Lemaire Channel, Antarctic Peninsula.
August 27, 2019"Happy Death Day" at the Odeon Theatre, 123 S 2nd St, Tucumcari, NM (theater is still in operation-"Dora and The Lost City of Gold" now playing)From the theater's Facebook page:"1937 Historical movie theatre dedicated to preserving the motion picture industry historically, but with today's digital and audio technologies. We are the oldest continuously running movie theatre in New Mexico. Since 1937 we have never shut our doors to business. We are the 3rd owner! We hope to see you!"
September 2, 2019Lower Antelope Canyon called Hazdistazí – which means "Spiral Rock Arches" by the Navajo. Antelope Canyon Tribal Park is located on land belonging to the LeChee Chapter of the Navajo Nation. It's located just off RT 98 near Page AZ.
September 7, 2019Free range kitty on Via Dante Alighieri in San Quirico d'Orcia, Tuscany (Italy).
September 19, 2019Reyniskirkja Lutheran Church near Vík í Mýrdal, Iceland. Reyniskirkja is a wooden church dating to 1929. Vík í Mýrdal is a remote seafront village in south Iceland near Reynisfjara beach with its black sand.
October 2, 2019Unusually tall Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) in Joshua Tree National Park located in the Mojave Desert, California.
October 10, 2019Street vender making dolls for sale in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
October 15, 2019Eilean Donan Castle overlooking the Isle of Sky. Located just outside the village of Dornie, Kyle Of Lochalsh, Inverness-shire, Scottland.
October 22, 2019Blue iceberg in the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica. The ancient glacial blue ice is estimated to be as much as 20,000-30,000 years old. The reason for the blue ice is that all of the air (that makes ice white) is compressed out of the water.
October 29, 2019Tufa towers in Mono Lake at sunset.
November 6, 2019Late light on the tufas in the South Tufa Area of Mono Lake.
November 16, 2019Late 1920's Chevrolet radiator bowtie logo. Likely from a 1927 Chevrolet Series AA Capitol pickup truck. Photographed at a farm in the Palouse region of Washington State. No clue as to what color it originally was.
November 16, 2019Late 1920's Chevrolet radiator bowtie logo. Likely from a 1927 Chevrolet Series AA Capitol pickup truck. Photographed at a farm in the Palouse region of Washington State. No clue as to what color it originally was.
December 9, 2019Tee Pee Curios gift shop at 924 E Rte 66 Blvd, Tucumcari, NM. (they don't have a website but they do have a Facebook page)
December 20, 2019At The Racetrack in Death Valley National Park.Sadly, The Racetrack has suffered do to poor behavior of visitors (driving into the playa and other acts of vandalism) as well as unfavorable weather conditions but it can be worth the difficult drive.
December 23, 2019Waddell seal yawning in the Gerlache Strait, Antarctica. Like dogs, seals tend to yawn when they get nervous as this fellow did because he was surrounded by photographers firing their shutters like paparazzi surrounding a celebrity. Shortly after, he took off into the water to escape.
December 31, 2019Navajo pony in Monument Valley, AZ.
January 12, 2020A series of Palouse perspectives and viewpoints of an abandoned barn. In the Palouse region of Washington State.
January 21, 2020Icebergs collected together in the "Iceberg Graveyard" in Pleneau Bay in the Antarctic Peninsula. The bay is near the Lemaire Channel and Petermann Island and traps iceberg that come into the bay but can't get out. They end their lives there...but unlike other areas where the icebergs are free roaming and floating which makes them dangerous to approach, the icebergs in the Graveyard are often grounded on land–which makes them safer to approach, so close you can touch them!
January 29, 2020Tourists stalking a tarantula in the parking lot of the Royal Gorge Bridge park just outside Cañon City, CO.Yeah, ok, I was stalking him too...
January 29, 2020Tourists stalking a tarantula in the parking lot of the Royal Gorge Bridge park just outside Cañon City, CO.Yeah, ok, I was stalking him too...
February 16, 2020Yes, you are seeing this right...taken as our group of intrepid photographers were crossing the Drake Passage on our way to Antarctica. They say it can be a "Drake Lake" meaning not very rough or "Drake Rock & Roll". We got the rock & roll and we loved it! I was out on deck with my room mate Seth Resnick. We kinda got yelled at for being on deck when it was so rough. But the expedition leader said don't go on deck when the main outer hatches on the doors were dogged. Well, we were on the port side (leeward) and our hatch was open, so we went out on deck. Kinda scary/thrilling but we got some interesting shots.
February 24, 2020View of the old city center of Firenze, Italia from the Piazzale Michelangelo as the sun was setting. This was shot on a trip celebrating my 40th wedding anniversary. The only camera I took was my little trusty Sony RX100 II camera (aside from my iPhone of course). This is a portion of an 8 shot pano that resulted in an image of 14,568 pixels by 5988 pixels or 40.5" x 16.6 @ 360 ppi.The reason I only took the little Sony is I wanted to stay married for the foreseeable future–no fancy cameras with interchangeable lenses and tripods on anniversary trips is the rule!
March 3, 2020Two kids playing in doorway in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
March 9, 2020Sand dollars for sale at Shell World, a roadside tourist trap in Key Largo, FL (its actually worth stopping).
March 19, 2020The Pink Elephant Antique Mall (and ice cream shop) along I55 in Livingston, IL.I can't tell you how many times I've passed by this place on my way from Chicago to the Southwest (I55 to I44 to I40 to US 285 to Santa Fe, NM). So, one time I had to stop and see what was what...it's a big antique mall and is worth the stop for nostalgia's sake. I didn't try the ice cream...they have a Facebook page.
March 26, 2020Title: Brown BundleShot with an early production version Canon 1Ds with a 24MM tilt/shift lens. This image was one of several still life images shot on both film and digital for the purposes of comparison.The digital version won in terms of dynamic range and apparent sharpness (even though I did a very high rez scan on my Imacon scanner). Sadly, I can't seem to find the scans and since I just moved, my film files are pretty disorganized. So at the moment you'll just have to trust me that the digital won :~)
March 30, 2020A white horse in a Palouse field, Washington State.
April 9, 2020Sunrise at the Dugald Stewart Monument on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland. The monument is a memorial to the Scottish philosopher Dugald Stewart (1753–1828) completed in 1831.The photo was taken during a photo trip by car with my good friend Martin Evening. Martin even let me drive...I tended to run up on curbs and had a hard time going through traffic circles. Martin said, "oh my, oh my" a lot. They drive on the wrong side of the road over there!
April 13, 2020Casita at 304 Delgado St. in Santa Fe, NM.
April 21, 2020Bull fighter waiting for his turn at Plaza de Toros San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
May 6, 2020The waitresses of Iggy's Diner in Carthage, MO shooting selfies. The waitress on the right was ours...I think. They kinda look the same. I do remember the breakfast as a Route 66 landmark. If you want to see Iggie's from outside, I posted that image 01-21-2019. I'll post a link in the comments.
May 12, 2020Zion National Park along UT-9 on the East side near Checkerboard Mesa.
May 22, 2020 · Breakfast at Larry's Cafe in Orangeville, CA. Scrambled eggs with hash browns & bacon. Along with biscuits & gravy. Coffee to drink.
May 27, 2020Arby's in Roswell, NM. Aliens are welcome here...
June 3, 2020Sunset reflected off the waters of the Lemaire Channel in Antarctica.Sunsets down there are different...they seem to go on forever. Then a brief hidden sun and sunrise starts. It's very tiring to photograph in these circumstances but the experience is certainly worth the effort.
June 10, 2020Navajo cattle roaming the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park. Shot along the 17 mile Valley Drive.
June 14, 2020Happy Flag Day!Not real proud of the union this flag represents at the moment but at least it won't be flown along with the Confederate Flag at NASCAR races...
June 25, 2020Wild mustangs check me out while visiting the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary just outside of Hot Springs, South Dakota. The sanctuary was started by Dayton O. Hyde in 1988 to have a place for wild horses that might otherwise be culled on Federal land out West. The sanctuary has about 12,000 acres and 2000 acres leased from the Oglala Sioux Tribe. The land straddles a stretch of the Cheyenne River. The goal of saving the American Wild Mustang also includes the preservation of endangered wild horse bloodlines of the resident mustang bands. This includes the Spanish, Choctaw Indian, Curly and American Mustangs. The sanctuary is home to over 500 horses. Sadly, it seems that sanctuary is now closed to the public due to the Covid-19 pandemic. When I visited a couple of years ago with my daughter (who loves horses) we got to take the "pro photo tour" and drive around that back pasture to see the mustangs up close. Hopefully when things settle down, they will reopen for tours.
June 30, 2020Kodak Brownie Hawkeye model with Flash!Darn, I missed "Camera Day" by an hour...oh well, here's the earliest camera I had. Sadly, I have no idea where it may be after I moved :~(I remember my father handing me a camera on a vacation and told me to shoot pictures...when I shot up all the film in one day, he took the camera away...seems he didn't realize I might actually take a lot of pictures! Years later he gave me another camera as a gift for college. That was the camera that launched by career although I always remember the shots I did with the Brownie. No idea where the photos might be.
July 8, 2020Amateur photographers shooting tourist snapshots inside the Piazza del Campo in the city center of Siena Italy. This is the center where the annual horse race, the Palio di Siena is run.
July 19, 2020A 1937 Dodge pickup truck in the Palouse region of Washington State. The sign on the door reads Palouse Welding and Machine Shop.There is still a Palouse Welding and Machine Shop but I'm pretty sure it's not the same shop since the one located in Palouse, WA was started in 1985.
July 22, 2020Piazza de Liberace, Palm Springs, CA.(Liberace's 3rd and final home in Palm Springs)
July 31, 2020La Cita Mexican restaurant in Tucumcari, New Mexico.(not sure about the food)
August 16, 2020A remarkable iceberg found in the “Iceberg Graveyard” just off Pléneau Island near the Lemaire Channel, Antarctica.The columns are a result of natural seawater erosion. The interesting aspect of the Iceberg Graveyard is that these bergs are grounded–which means they can't float away nor capsize which is a major danger and one reason why Zodiac cruises don't approach large icebergs. You never know when a berg will roll over.If you are in a Zodiac near a berg when it rolls over, you run the very real risk of having your Zodiac flooded or capsized. With the water temp near freezing, you might not survive in the water for the period of time it might take to rescue you.Which is why the expedition crew used to joke about our life preservers–which auto inflate when they hit seawater-aren't so much "life preservers" and more like "body recovery devises". But since these bergs are grounded, we were able to get really close. In fact my bunkmate Seth Resnick talked the Zodiac driver to go into the arch so he could get a shot.That particular cruise was launched with the instructors on the cruise while we shot a video commemorating the launch and shipping of Lightroom 1.0 on February 19th, 2007. In our boat was Michael Reichmann, John Paul Caponigro, Seth Resnick, Ian Lyons, Bill Atkinson, Stephen Johnson and our videographer Chris Sanderson. Our Zodiac driver was Robert "has anybody seen a big white boat" Gilmore.
August 27, 2020Old handbills just off 42nd Street in New York City.This is from a time before Times Square got cleaned up...a grittier time that I sort of miss.
September 1, 2020Agave attenuata (swan's neck agave) succulent plant from Moir Gardens at the Plantations Gardens restaurant in Koloa, Kauai, Hawaii.
September 14, 2020Afternoon light at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley National Park in California.The location was named after Christian Brevoort Zabriskie, vice-president and general manager of the Pacific Coast Borax Company.
September 21, 2020Michelangelo's David at Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze, Italy.This was a surreptitious shot during a period that the Accademia Gallery of Florence refused to allow photography. A year later, non flash photography was allowed because it became impossible to keep people from shooting with their camera phones. I sneaked the shot with my little Sony RX 100 held at waist level. My wife figured I would get caught and kicked our of the museum...I didn't :~)
October 1, 2020Creepy doll...Vintage doll owned by my wife and handed down from her grandmother. My daughter thinks she'll want it too...
October 8, 2020JUST VOTE...no excuses accepted...This is my mail in ballot that I'll be filling out tonite. No political comment intended...I just hope people do their civic duty and vote–seriously, please, vote!
October 13, 2020Navajo weaver in a hogan near Gouldings Trading Post in Monument Valley.I intended to post this earlier in honor of Indigenous Peoples' Day, but got delayed, sorry...
November 1, 2020Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Park.
November 1, 2020Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Park.
November 22, 2020King penguin in South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic.And no, it's not a giant pengiun, Kings reach a height of about 3 ft. The reason the penguin looks so tall is I was lying down in penguin guano to shoot the photo. I didn't realize that at the time.
December 3, 2020Abandoned Longhorn Saloon in Scenic, South Dakota. The signs are interesting...
December 18, 2020Cactus lights, Tucson, AZHappy Holidays!
December 25, 2020Frosted window...Happy Holidays!
January 1, 2021Two leaves still life study...First post of the new year...happy new years to all!
January 14, 2021Blacksmith at Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site just outside my home town of Springfield, Illinois.
January 18, 2021In honor of Jay Maisel's 90th birthday, my portrait of Jay.Happy birthday!
January 29, 2021Ballet dancer
February 1, 2021Death Valley at sunset.
February 15, 2021The Durango & Silverton narrow gauge railroad steam pulling into Durango, CO. just before an afternoon rainstorm. Durango, Colorado was founded by the Denver & Rio Grande Railway in 1879. The railroad arrived in Durango on August 5, 1881 and construction on the line to Silverton began in the fall of the same year. By July of 1882, the tracks to Silverton were completed, and the train began hauling both freight and passengers. The historic train has been in continuous operation between Durango and Silverton since 1882, carrying passengers behind vintage steam locomotives and rolling stock indigenous to the line.
March 4, 2021Saguaro cactus, Tuscon AZ.
February 23, 2021My wife's bunny slippers...Originally bought as a prop for a costume, they are now her favorite slippers! Kinda hard to stifle a giggle when she pads around the house and the ears flop around...only problem is Phoebe (the cat) likes to chew on the whiskers :~(
March 13, 2021The opening of the Burke Brise Soleil (“wings”) at the Milwaukee Art Museum.The Burke Brise Soleil is a moveable, wing-like sunscreen that rests on top of the Museum's vaulted, glass-enclosed Windhover Hall in Milwaukee, WI.
March 17, 2021· A pleasant fall morning along the Merced River in Yosemite Valley, California.Shot on a trip from Death Valley up the Eastern Sierras through Lone Pine and the Alabama Hills to Mono Lake then over the mountains to Yosemite...last trip before the pandemic hit. Looking forward to some sort of trip itinerary this year...just got my 2nd vaccine shot!If you are interested, this is an HDR pano from a Nikon Z7 and 14-24mm lens. If you want to know where the tripod holes are, look here: 37°44'38.05" N 119°34'57.65" W.
March 27, 2021For my 100th post to TVC...Two faces of Carl Coreydiptych;Serious,Not Serious.
