Tag:Contemplates

Study of light falling on the sand dunes at Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley

Dunes – Silver: Mesquite Flat

Click below to: Choose your print type Select your size Pick your finish Adjust your crop Add a frame (or not) Complete your purchase Dunes – Silver is a study in light of a photograph I took at the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park. The sun had risen some 20 minutes earlier and now climbed rapidly into the sky, taking with it the side lighting that reveals the beautiful natural curves of sand dunes. We’d walked […]

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Green Shutters against a White Wall. Captured in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans in July 2017.

Green Shutters, Faubourg Marigny, 2017

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 […]

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Death Valley photographed near sunrise from Beatty Road. 1995.

Beatty Road Sunrise, Death Valley

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 […]

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Goat Mountain with Mt. Nestor reflected in Goat Pond. Kananaskis Country, Alberta, Canada.

Goat Mountain reflected in Goat Pond

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 […]

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Window In Time - View through the clock at the Musee d'Orsay, Paris.

Window In Time

A window in time, literally. I captured this view through the clock face at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris on the fifth floor, in the North-East corner of the museum. The space behind the clock face in the North-West corner is a restaurant and I don’t find the view through it as pleasing. Opening as a train station in 1900, by 1939 the platforms had become too short for the trains of that age. The French government saved the building […]

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