I forgot just how beautiful Wyoming can be! This is a image from a sunset I had long forgotten about until stumbling back upon it today. Myself, a friend, and our dogs were camped out by Fontenelle Reservoir in South West Wyoming on the open plain while doing some field research in the area. This…
I love driving the long desolate stretches of road in Wyoming. They allow for so much time to think and to ponder the fact that years ago Native Americans roamed this land for hundreds of years before the first Western settlers ever even tried to cross this very same road. But they didn’t have a…
This photography may look like a nice pleasant sunset out on the plains of Laramie, Wyoming, but photographs don’t capture wind very well (at least not this one!). In Laramie, where the wind is always blowing, my walk across these plains just outside of town was through 40 mph winds that added a significant wind…
Since my mind has been drifting towards spring with this mild winter, I thought I would share this one. If you’ve ever been to the San Rafael Swell in Utah, you know how powerful the landscape is there. While on a geology trip led by a fellow Exxon Geologist, he took to this site where he used…
“Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.” – Pablo Picasso I am trying something a little new for me: digital manipulation of my photos. Since I don’t have the gift of painting, I thought that I would…
I took this photo about a month ago. We have had such a warm winter, that miraculously the dirt roads leading into some of my favorite places are clear enough for my car to get through! I loved the texture of the dirt and the snow as the setting sun cast a warm glow on…
This summer I had the joy of having a pair of Swainson’s Hawks nest in the big tree next to my house in Laramie, Wyoming. They would perch on the telephone poles next to my house and search for mice in the large prairie field just to the south. It was very cool to get…
Wishing a Happy New Year to all of you! This time of year is always a good time to reflect on who you were last year, and who would you like to be in this one. Whether the world ends, consciousness changes, or nothing happens during 2012, always live life to the fullest and be true to…
We got about 10 inches of fresh beautiful sparkling powder last night. As soon as I heard there was hoar frost in the Laramie Mountains, I immediately walked home from the office, grabbed my snow shoes and pack (which is always packed for moments like this) and headed to the mountains to catch the last few…