New Work: The Geyser
Not only will I write about travel and photography on these pages but from time to time I’ll share my own work. This is The Geyser, from earlier this year. It is a ten-minute video of the Old Faithful geyser…
A Bigger Camera
by Darin Boville
A Bigger Camera
by Darin Boville
A Wrong Turn to the Flight 93 Memorial
There’s something wrong with the Flight 93 Memorial in Pennsylvania. I had taken a wrong turn and was trapped on the wrong highway through the endless forests of Pennsylvania when I passed a brown sign for the memorial. Oh, that’s…
Gear Review: Still Flummoxed by the Peak Design Travel Tripod
In my review of the Peak Design Travel Tripod I mentioned that I had lost the hanging hook, the cap on the bottom of the center extension pole, the first time I had used it. I had taken the hook…
Books On My Desk: Renaissance Etching, Soth, and Wolfe
Ah, books. Such an old technology yet photography books–art photography books–are in something of a golden age. There is a flood of them, too many to even know all of the titles. I buy my share, although they seem far…
The Unexpected Goats
We’re in two cars, my daughter’s car ahead of me, when they start to hear a noise from the front right wheel area. They walkie-talkie back to us in my FJ. I tell them to pull over at the next…
Four Views of Badlands National Park Plus One Surprise
A quick tour of Badlands National Park is easy, running roughly parallel to I-90 in South Dakota. We started in Wall and headed straight south into the park, then made our way east along the main road, stopping frequently despite our tight schedule.
Presidents of Rapid City
Well, twenty-nine of them, at least. This post is from a series of articles chronicling a 2020 cross-country trip with my wife and two daughters and a boyfriend, from California to Ohio (to visit family) and Pennsylvania (to drop off…
Meeting Them at Mount Rushmore
You don’t see them at the mall because you only go to certain malls, if you go to malls at all. You don’t see them at work, if you go to work, because you do a certain kind of work.…
The Trump Shop Bus
He was all but done for the day when we pulled into the gas station just outside of Spearfish, South Dakota, his “Trump Shop” bus all closed up for the night. Written on the bus were the words “not affiliated…
What to think and feel about Devils Tower
When I was twelve I saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind in a theater and I was amazed by the spaceships and by the musical tones and light display at the end. I was amazed as well afterward when…