Every October, some of the most fanciful balloons gather in the high desert landscape of New Mexico. Chariots and lighthouses fly shoulder to shoulder with bees, dogs, hearts, and the occasional Vader. I wish I could go back and relive my time there.
Albuquerque
NM USA
Leaning Away
Visiting tulip fields is aboud admiring the the rows and rows of neatly planted tulips, in all shades from brilliant whites to deep purple. But not all end up blooming successfully, and add a bit of variety to the monotony of the parallel lines of tulips
Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm
OR USA
Spring of Flowers
Springs in California were spent driving around to various parts of the golden state to seek the colorful blooms of wildflowers. Hills, brown and dry during the summer and fall, transform in February to a verdant English landscape, and play host some of the largest varieties of wildflowers. Resplendent blooms of the california poppy, pygmy lupines, fiddlenecks, asters, daisies and many others carpet the sunlit slopes of the Sierra foothills. I am yet to witness such a transformation in any other part of the country.
Table Mountain Ecological Reserve
CA USA
Golden Honor
Seems like just yesterday I was hiking through a larch forest in peak fall foliage. I spied endless mountain slopes covered in resplendent gold, glowing in the morning sun under a crisp autumn sky.
How is it that six months have passed already?
Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest
WA USA
Blue and Yellow Tribute
Weekday photography means dashing to the fav spots to seek out the twilight sky.
Seattle
WA USA
A Fallen Rose
From above, the tulip fields were geometrical patterns of straight lines of different colors: yellows, blues, whites, pinks and reds. Coupled with assortments of an agricultural life, these patterns were interesting to photograph.
But down below, the compositions and scenes were strikingly different. Gone were the patterns where details were lost. Instead, I tried to focus on the minutiae, and on the uncommon occurrence.
Woodburn
OR USA
Framing a fourteener
Imagine sitting down inside a warm log cabin nestled a winter wonderland, with a window overlooking distant snow-capped peaks.
This cabin wasn't one of those. It was a decaying remnant of an old mining or hunting cabin: its roofs had long since gone, and one of its sides was already missing.
But the window framing the snow-capped peak was still around, waiting for this composition.
White River National Forest
CO USA
A Long Climb
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. To get there, you have to push yourself, one step after another, and seek out the mountains to master and the nadirs to cross.
Mount Rainier National Park
WA USA
Lights Out
One of the perks of living in the PNW, or so I thought, was that I would have easy access to see the northern lights. But lightshows like the one yesterday are few and far inbetween, and it is hard for the weather to cooperate as well. Thankfully, it cooperated yesterday and I snagged this. While not as impressive as my previous glimpses of the aurora in Iceland, it was a pretty sight at a place very close to home.
This scene shows the deep red pillars that appear when the intensity of the ionic storm becomes particularly strong.
Anacortes
WA USA
Rainless Sky
Sometimes I just stare in wonder at what nature can create. On a rare sunny winter day in the Olympics range of Washington, a small cloudburst empties itself into the thin dry air. I found myself drawn in to its inverse pattern created by the pyramidal mountains of the Olympics
Olympic National Park
WA USA