by aramatzne@gmail.com | 29 Mar 2017 | Musing
You may have noticed that I recently added several portfolios to my blog (or not, since I didn’t tell anyone…). The links hang out in the left-side menu. Most of the photos I posted on this blog found their way into at least one of the portfolios.
I hope you’ll take another trip through them.
I also set up an Etsy page to sell handmade cards and prints. The cards are 5″ x 7″ (12.7 x 17.8 cm), come with a matching envelope, are blank inside, and have a signed 4″ x 6″ (10.2 x 15.3cm) photo mounted on the front. The 80# cardstock is white. The photo title and location are handwritten on the back of each card. They come in a clear cellulose (biodegradable, non-cellophane) sleeve. They are made to order and can ship anywhere.
Photos included in this post and the Sale Portfolio are hyperlinked to the appropriate Etsy page.
Any other photo from The Road not Taken Enough portfolios may be special-ordered as a card or a paper/metal print. I am currently only able to accept orders through comments and email. Please contact me for sizes and prices.
The Road not Taken Enough leads to some amazing places. I hope you are enjoying the ride.
A spring snowstorm leaves a mature cottonwood gallery with a delicate coating.
A mature cottonwood gallery is dwarfed by the western Colorado landscape.
Feeding on sego lilies, a bee collects and spreads pollen among other flowers.
The last spot of winter sun illuminates Sutton Mountain as seen from across the red, green, and ochre Painted Hills.
Intense paintbrush colors stand in stark contrast to the sage and gray of surrounding shrubs.
Fern fronds unfurl in the surreal green of a Pacific Northwest spring.
A windless day creates a mirror image of summer clouds in a desert alkali playa, Abert Lake, in central Oregon.
Full of snowmelt and spring rain, the Imnaha River squeezes through Blue Hole.
A pastel sky above and golden buttes below, the 2016 super moon sets over Utah.
Pure white petals glow in the morning light before fading for the day.
Evening reflections of summer reeds create semi- and full circles in the still evening light.
A blue visits locoweed.
A hot air balloon unsuccessfully attempts to blend in with Smith Rock.
Summer sun glints off of a dragonfly’s wings as it alights on the tip of a reed.
Clouds, a dusting of snow and the subtle colors of sagebrush desert create a winter landscape.
Fall foliage adds color to red rock country.
White and mauve rock and black charred branches stand in stark color contrast to the deep blue of the Southern Ocean
Dik dik
Stripes and swishes.
Through the shadows and vegetation, Victoria Falls’ mist creates a rainbow.
An African elephant cow and her calf make their way to water along the Chobe River.
Enjoying a sunny afternoon nap.
A Cape crow enjoys first light across the Magkadigkadi salt pans.
Winter plain.
I knows you loves me, Baby.
Zebra belly. Nap face.
Morning light makes a lioness glow as she poses for her portrait.
Ruminating over dinner, an old Cape buffalo bull peers through the sage.
If cats had emotions similar to humans, this would be disdain.
The key to maintaining superiority is proper grooming.
Grasses can’t hide the intensity of a leopard’s gaze.
Single file, the young between the older cows, elephants walk to their nighttime hang out.
A lioness pauses from drinking at the water hole after a zebra dinner.
Shielding her calf, an elephant in Moremi National Park, Botswana, veers away from the lioness drinking at the waterhole.
Giant grasses or small elephant?
Hanging on by its toenails, a tree bridges the gap of sand washed out by Pacific storms.
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by aramatzne@gmail.com | 1 Mar 2017 | Roads Taken
A wild winter ride to iconic Central Oregon hot springs offered these landscapes. The road to Summer Lake is a beautiful stretch of little-used highway along the western edge of the Great Basin. Sagebrush gives way to alkali lakes, winds rip across the open flat, and clouds create another dimension of life above the high desert.
An unsettled day in the high desert.
Silver Lake, Oregon, snow from the west meets billowing clouds from the east.
Snow seems to be falling from Summer Lake up to the clouds.
Between the land and sky of Central Oregon lies Silver Lake.
Summer Lake Hot Springs soaking shed
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by aramatzne@gmail.com | 8 Feb 2017 | Musing
The only constant is change. Snow turns to ice; ice turns to water; water turns to rivers; rivers become oceans. And eventually, it comes back to land to start the cycle again.
Building crystals, Deschutes River, Tumalo State Park
Juniper droplet
Calm in the rush
Deschutes River, Tumalo State Park
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by aramatzne@gmail.com | 6 Jan 2017 | Musing, Roads Taken
At first glance, covering the brilliant colors of the Painted Hills with snow seems an affront. Slowly, though, you realize the colors are more vivid and the landscape patterns surreal; it is a study in negative space. The intensity of the snow and depth of the shadows create an otherworldly effect that makes this fabulous place more so.
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by aramatzne@gmail.com | 21 Dec 2016 | Roads Taken
Happy Winter Solstice!
All the best and brightest for 2017!
Spring trees after morning rain. Beartown State Forest, Massachusetts
Yampa River valley, cottonwoods, snow, and afternoon light. Colorado
Fern aliens. How can so many shades of green live in one place? Mount Baker, Washington
Sea alien – A.K.A. anemone. Deception Pass State Park, Washington
Paintbrush in lichen-laden sagebrush. Steens Mountain, Oregon
The road through Candy Land
Fall color against red rock. Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
Super moon set. Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Kalahari Milky Way. Botswana
Zebra-belly nap face. Moremi National Park, Botswana
Personal grooming is important in maintaining superiority.
Elephant knees and toenails and a little one tucked under the trunk. Chobe, Botswana
Lilac-breasted roller. Moremi National Park, Botswana
Paradise Found, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
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by aramatzne@gmail.com | 7 Dec 2016 | Roads Taken
Remember the children’s game, Candy Land? If the board was laid out on a real landscape, this is what the road would look like, marshmallow fudge and cotton(wood) candy.
Cottonwood Canyon Road, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah
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