To get to the famed Balanced Rock in Big Bend National Park, the trail takes you up the base of a valley whose sides are covered in these impressive hoodoos....
This is the last image in this week’s series of tonal recession pictures. Like yesterday’s shot, I took it from the patio of the Leapin’...
An early morning view of the Chisos Mountains taken from the back porch of the Terlingua rental property we stayed in while visiting Big Bend National...
Mountains stretch off into the distance in this morning view taken on the Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive in Big Bend National Park, Texas.
Low clouds shroud the top of some of the Chisos Mountains in Big Bend National Park. This shot was taken on the main park road between the Chisos Basin...
Sotol Vista is a stop along the Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive in Big Bend National Park. The views were spectacular when we stopped there shortly before sunset...
Let’s move away from Balanced Rock this week for some wider views of Big Bend National Park. I should warn, however, that, as with pretty much all Big Bend...
Continuing the Balanced Rock in Big Bend National Park theme, here’s the view through the gap looking in the opposite direction from the first image...
This is the typical postcard view (really – you can buy someone else’s version of this view on a postcard in the park stores) of Balanced Rock...
A view of the landscape surrounding Balanced Rock in Big Bend National Park, west Texas, shortly after sunrise on April 3rd, 2021. This was the scene immediately...
Balanced Rock Trail in Big Bend National Park starts at the end of a 7 mile stretch of washboard road that I wouldn’t recommend taking unless you’re...
I’m just back from a fantastic long weekend trip to Big Bend National Park in far west Texas so I’m going to break from the Atlanta pictures...
This is the famous Andromeda Galaxy, M31, as seen from Pedernales Falls State Park on Wednesday, December 16th, 2020 and represents my first attempt at photographing...
The Oread Hotel and University of Kansas Campanile seen just as the sun sets over Lawrence, Kansas during Thanksgiving week, 2020.
The Campanile at the University of Kansas in Lawrence seen reflected on the surface of Potter Lake.
Delving into the archives to find a picture for today, I ended up back in the pictures from my 2015 NxNW trip to the Palouse region of Washington. This...
I suppose I’m cheating somewhat since this panorama only shows the right part of Capitol Peak as viewed from fairly close to the start of the Lighthouse...
Another of the places we visited during our short trip to the Texas Panhandle last week was Palo Duro Canyon State Park. We spent a chunk of an afternoon...
This picture pretty much sums up West Texas (or, at least, the flat, agricultural bits in the panhandle) to me. I took it somewhere between Abilene and Lubbock...
Cable Mill is a popular attraction on the Cade’s Cove loop road in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee. When we were there in 2018, they...
