Tag:calming
Green Shutters is an image I captured while wandering with my wife in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans in July 2017. The building itself is on Decatur Street near the intersection with Frenchman Street. We had started our meanderings in the French Quarter and the French Market. Our destination was the St. Roch Market for lunch. In the evening, (in non-pandemic times) the area around Decatur and Frenchman is pulsating with nightlife – food and music course through […]
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 […]
