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If there's anything I learned about shooting from my trips to Iceland, it was how to shoot in the rain. Yesterday was clear blue skies, so I didn't bring my camera on my hike. Today was raining. I moped around for a bit, dealt with Life Stuff, then realized that I had learned the...

I wasn't able to get out of town (again) this week due to various complications, so went on one of my usual dog walks, but with camera this time. I realized when I had driven 20' from home that I'd forgotten my tripod, so these are handheld panos. The usual walk is actually a bit lower, but...

From the Homestead Meadows/Lion Gulch Trail near Estes Park today. Trees are coming along nicely with some groves being brilliant and others mostly green. Lots of spots on the leaves, so not good for macro (without a lot of hunting, anyway)

Sitting around on a rainy day, waiting for a service guy to come, so I thought I'd get around to processing a few more from my July trip to the Wind Rivers in Wyoming. Here's a pano of the area of the 1st shot that Bart posted. Lizard Head is in the center., Bear Lake in front of it. Left of...

I heard my dog barking outside the back door yesterday with the kind of bark that let me know that there was an animal there. I went out to look and a raccoon was perched in a tree. I went out front to where my vehicle was parked to get my camera, which standardly has the 70-200mm lens mounted...

I went back to Great Sand Dunes NP this week hoping for more flowers in the dunes. But first, here are some shots from outside the park. I didn't have the dramatic clouds/storm like last week, but there were more flowers. I walked around in the dunes afterwards, but there still weren't...

Had I seen Jim Fox's post about possible aurora viewing in WY, I probably would have headed north instead of south on Wednesday. As it was, this being sunflower time at the Great Sand Dunes NP, I wanted to check the progress of the sunnies. Outside of the park, they were probably around peak...

After a day off where I alternated between resting and napping, with a few dips in the very refreshing water, found my backup lighter, and had my first (and only) good nights sleep of the trip, we were off to Baptiste Lake. Easy, pretty walking took us to and around Grave Lake, then the trail...

I left us at the Monolith on the last post. We hit the trail after shooting sunrise after another pretty much sleepless night (leg cramps much better, but stomach cramps worsening and, um, did I mention that I didn't take a sleeping bag? My 70L pack had room for food or sleeping bag in...

The Wind River range is just so good in B&W. All that granite. Here's Texas Pass. And from the Lizard Head trail, finally up out of the trees. Looking back at Big Sandy Mountain, with the Monolith dominating the background. This was the most crowded of the trails, complete with an assist...

Wind River Mountains, I mean. Feeling pretty burned out from working is not a good way to start a backpack trip. I was glad I had packed about a month earlier, when I had more energy, but still, I got 1 house away & looked down in the passengers foot well where my boots "always" live. Well...

Or Mariposa. Calochortus nuttalli. I've never seen them up this high -- about 10,500', but there were a number of them & they looked awfully happy to be there. This one was hidden in a shrub, so the wind wasn't batting it around nearly as much as its brethren. I kept waiting for the clouds to...

Again from my back deck. A little information on Longhorns here

Corallorhiza maculata. The ones I usually find @8000' didn't do well with the dryness even though they got much more moisture than a few thousand feet lower. I had to go another 1000' higher to find some. These were much taller, being about a foot tall (as opposed to about half that). These...

Another shot from my back deck. Got some new neighbors today. I hear they'll be around for 2 weeks.

On today's hike, I found but a single Rocky Mountain iris in bloom. What are usually marshes around this time of year had green grass, but below that, the ground was dry and kind of crispy. There were a few patches of delphiniums, but they were very short and fairly stressed. This was the...

My peonies got pretty well prostrated by the precipitation (snow). I'd propped them up with supports around Pasque, which is probably the only reason they didn't just pop off.

I just got an inquiry from someone who wants to use one of my photos on a book cover. It's for practitioners of East Asian medicine (ie acupuncture & herbal medicine), to be called "Racism through the Lens of East Asian Medicine". I don't think it'll have a very big market. My question is...

We're down to about 2 dozen horses now (down from 3 -- some had to go to work somewhere, carting tourists around on their backs). A few days ago we had a very wet, heavy snow, which, upon melting, provided some much needed moisture for the pasture. And Colorado in general. This was taken from...

Last week I took a short, last-of-the-season trip to Cedar Mesa, UT. After an unsuccessful hunt for one group of structures, I went to one that I hadn't been to in a long time (2008, in case you missed it). Previously, one just drove to the end of the road & hiked down into the canyon. Now...