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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 only spent a few days at Angkor Wat and that was back in the early 1990s. It’s one of those places and times that, looking back, I wish digital cameras had existed and I wish I had had more time to explore, and I wish there hadn’t been a war that left the area littered with land mines. I also wish consumer GPS had existed back then as well so I would have been able to accurately place this […]
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 […]
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 […]
