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Click below to: Choose your print type Select your size Pick your finish Adjust your crop Add a frame (or not) Complete your purchase The Joshua Tree – Yucca Brevifolia, is found in the Mojave Desert of southern California. I captured this example when I swung through the Joshua Tree National Park in either late 1995 or 1996. These days your camera records when you took the photo, and often also where. But I captured this image on slide film […]
This image, taken from Beatty Road, is from my very first visit to Death Valley. Visiting in the fall of 1995, I recall going to a Houston Aeros ice hockey game and scoring some free nights at the Imperial Palace, Las Vegas. While that was also my first visit to Vegas, I found the desert more alluring. That day, clouds had moved in during the overnight hours. As the sun rose the sky was a symphony of color. Had I […]
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 […]
