Liminal phases

Liminal phases

Transitions

I’m back in the land of sky and light.

The earth spins through the ephemeral colors of the day. The ethereal light of morning is luminous. The sunset gradient passes from the sun’s flame to cool atmospheric blue in a hair’s breadth and illuminates the setting moon.

New Mexico, deserts sunset, moon set, moon

All about scale

All about scale

2023: The year in review

This year’s photos cross landscapes and time, the eternal and ephemeral. From the spiraling mazes of Southwest canyons to the glowing night sky of the Arctic and a handful of people in between, 2023 was about scale.

May 2024 flow easily and provide expanded horizons.

Thanks for tagging along. xoxo TDesert, southwest, New Mexico, Ghost Ranch, maze, spiral,

desert, southwest, Nevada, sagebrush, mining

desert, southwest, Nevada, sagebrush, mining, Owl Club, Battle Mountain

Montana, aspens, outhouse, vibrant

North Dakota, feet, red dirt, mud,

Greenland, scale,

Greenland, whale, abandoned places

Greenland, scale, iceberg, playground, construction,

Iceland, wall art, sheep, stroller

Svalbard, Pyramiden, Longyearbyen, scale, Njordskoldbreen, glacier, abandoned places

WIndow, kitchen, view, Mountain View, scale, Svalbard, Spitsbergen Artists Center, Longyearbyen,

Svalbard, aurora borealis, Longyearbyen, northern lights

Winter solstice 2022

Winter solstice 2022

Another spin around the sun, and the light returns as promised.

May 2023 be a spectacular year full of joy and satisfaction.

Thanks for sharing the journey with me. xoxo T

Christ in the Desert Monastery, Rio Chama, New Mexico

Doors with opposing handles

 

White Lakes, New Mexico, roadside, bar, ruins, abandoned places, abandoned building

Roadside bar reimagined

 

White Lakes, New Mexico, roadside, bar, ruins, abandoned places, abandoned building, chain gang, standard oil

Standard Oil Products

 

Arizona, Pipeline fire, Flagstaff, wild fire, forest fire

The Pipeline Fire

 

montana, badger

Badgers!

 

Sheep mountain, Montana

Sheep Mountain View

 

thunderstorm, cumulonimbus, shelf cloud, cloudspotters, New Mexico, storm, clouds

Shelf cloud rolls ahead of the rain

 

giraffe, Namibia, Africa, Southern Africa

Oh, yeah, Namibia boys

 

Namibia, Africa, Southern Africa, Sossusvlei, red sand, red dunes, salt flats, salt pans, desert

It’s a long walk

 

New Mexico, aerial photo, airplane, landscape

New Mexico from 12,000 feet

 


New Mexico, ruins, abandoned places, abandoned building

A view of the pond from the house I can’t find again.

Things you find in the desert

Things you find in the desert

The desert always holds the unexpected.

A coal, oil, lumber train lumbering through sage and creosote.

Great blue herons wading through a still Rio Grande channel surrounded by autumn cattails and reflected in rain-muddied water.

A fall watercolor of saltgrass to sage, sage to willow, willow to cottonwood, the details of texture and color fuzzy, delicately bleeding onto the page.

Subtlety is an art form.

Great blue heron, Bosque del Apache, New Mexico, national wildlife refuge, desert oasis, desert

 

Great blue heron, Bosque del Apache, New Mexico, national wildlife refuge, desert oasis, desert, cottonwood, willow, Rio Grande River

The Road not Taken Enough