The hike up to the peak of Cima Dome is not long from the off-road trail that runs along the side of Tuetonia Peak but it is misleading. I parked my FJ Cruiser in a small campground turnout and looked up at the smooth arc of the Dome’s volcanic bulge…
A few unprocessed images from my recent trip to the Mojave Desert.
The stack grows a little shorter. Travels Across the Roof of the World: A Himalayan Memoir by William and Anne Frej.Additional texts by Edwin Bernbaum, Michael Tobias, and Jane Gray Morrison.Published in 2022 by George F. Thompson Publishing in Association with the Center for Places. You may remember The Center…
In 2004 I moved with my wife and two young daughters from the suburbs of Washington, DC to the California coast, taking a month to travel in a winding, zig-zag path. We had a plan—each of us had made of list of the things we most wanted to see and…
Hotel rooms, at night in the dark, are alive with light. I made these images on the 10,000 mile cross-country tip I undertook this past fall. Each night, no matter how late I arrived at a hotel, no matter how tired, I spent the first forty-five minutes before I unpacked…
In deference to certain workplace environments, I've edited the quote (just below) to obscure an offensive word. Click on the link in the quote to see the word. The big boulder on Observatory hill, which is the largest of its kind in the immediate vicinity of Madison, is now out…
In 2005 I found myself passing through Albuquerque and thought I'd stop by the Petroglyph National Monument. It's not very big. Maybe at one time it used to be out there, on its own in some pristine setting, but now it's butt-up against the sprawl of the ever-sprawling city, "adobe"…
After going through William Frej's exciting photobook, Maya Ruins Revisited (see my review here), that excitement carried on and I wanted to dig deeper. Do you want more, too? The first place to start is the most obvious: One essay in Frej's book offers a good summary of what is…
My video, The Passage, although created for personal reasons, can be seen as a metaphor for any or all of the transitions we are experiencing now, whether that transition is political or emotional, on a large social scale or on a smaller private scale. The video was made along the…
Rephotography—projects that seek out the tripod holes of past photographers to reshoot the same images of the same thing, in the same place, maybe at the same time—have their fascinations but, in the end, impart lessons on the same general theme: Man is bad. Man is bad because man tears…