Category:Landscape
When I visited the White Sands National Park it was still the White Sands National Monument. What’s the difference? I had to look this up and found the answer from one of my favorite publications, Outside. National Parks have scenic, inspirational, educational, and recreational value. National monuments have objects of historical, cultural, and/or scientific interest. So why the change? By redesignating from White Sands National Monument to White Sands National Park, the people of New Mexico are able to protect […]
Goat Mountain lies about 10 miles south south east of Canmore in Alberta, Canada. Of course, if you’re Canadian, since 1977 that’ll be about 16 kilometers – that’s as the crow flies. It’s a bit longer by the road which twists and turns through the mountain passes and along the valleys. Out of Canmore you take Alberta 742, otherwise known as the Smith Dorrien Trail, and follow it south till you get to Goat Pond. Here I’m shooting almost due […]
When you look at Google Maps, Agathla Peak first appears as El Capitan. El Capitan is the Spanish name, Agathla Peak the anglicized version of the Navajo name. According to the fine folks at Wikipedia, this means ‘much wool’. This is a reference to the fur of antelope and deer caught on the rocks. To the Navajo, the peak, thrusting some 1500 feet above the surrounding plain, is a sacred place. That doesn’t seem to stop lots of people from […]
I was wondering what to title this image. It’s a view east along Northshore Road in the Lake Mead Recreational Area. As I was looking at the road that winds its way through the desert hills I got to thinking this is no Roman road, with all its twists and turns. And then I got to thinking of the Thomas Hardy poem. Forty years on I can still recite the opening lines, “The Roman Road runs straight and bare as […]
Here’s another photo I took with the iPhone 11 Pro Max on my flight back from Calgary the other week. The landscape feature at the bottom of the image is Pine Mountain which lies just to the west of Casper, Wyoming. The first part of the flight had crisp, clear blue skies allowing for great visibility. I spent virtually the entire flight just gazing out the window watching the magnificent landscape pass below. The angle of the sun that afternoon […]
Last week I had to be in Calgary for not the happiest of reasons. Most of my Calgary trips are strictly business, up on Monday back on Thursday. Sometimes I’ll vary them though so last week was up on Wednesday, back on Friday. While the intervening Thursday had some light snow flurries, both the flight in and the flight out had crisp, clear, dry air. My preferred seat is the window seat. Ahead of the engines if I can get […]