“Evening Clouds, Mono Lake” — Evening clouds from the Sierra Nevada drift over Mono Lake.
Late in the afternoon I was photographing autumn aspen trees in a deep valley along the eastern escarpment of the Sierra Nevada. Not long after I arrived there developing clouds began to block the light that best shows the intense colors of the trees. I continued working and found ways to photograph effectively in the soft light, but I was a bit disappointed by the cloud cover. And then it occurred to me that the cloud line would end as they dissipated out over Mono Lake.
“Imaginary Landscape — Blue” — An imaginary desert landscape.
My imaginary landscape photographs begin with photographic materials from actual landscapes and then morph them in various ways. The results range from slight variations on landscape themes to images that don’t have any obvious connection to real places. This imaginary landscape began with a photograph of the surface of a playa with scattered small stones.
“Desert Gold Bloom” — Desert gold wildflowers in bloom, Death Valley.
You often hear the expression that there is a “carpet of wildflowers” in a landscape. That description was apt in quite a few areas of Death Valley National Park when we visited in late February. To be clear, much of the landscape of this desert park sill looked like… desert. But in places there were wildflower blooms of impressive size.
“Desert Reflections, Lake Manly” — Desert mountains and sky reflected in Lake Manly, Death Valley.
Looking at this aquatic scene it is hard to believe the normally here we would be looking at arid salt flats extending toward the horizon, not the reflective surface of a very large lake. But this is Death Valley, a place of astonishing variety, and sometimes that arid landscape is full of water.
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