Feline Textures

Wolf Mask

Detail from Quileute tribal mask

Trestle Beam

Water Color

Reflection in the river

Market Signs

A slice of autumn color

Halloween Pumpkin

After the Rain

Spiral

Pho

Obviously Icarus

Moody

Little Falls

At Wallace Falls State Park, Gold Bar, WA.

Scavenger

More Autumn Reflections

I love this stuff.

From the Skyline Divide

A view of Mt Baker from the Skyline Divide trail.

Moon Shot

Heron

Impressionist Autumn

Fall colors reflected in the Sammamish River.

Pileated Woodpecker

Madrona Bark

Extremes

Up Where It Rains

Forks, Washington, up on the Olympic Peninsula, was a seriously depressed, mildewed-around-the-edges remnant of the logging industry when I last visited six or seven years ago. Ten feet (!) of rainfall a year will do that, I guess. Then the "Twilight" books happened, written by an Arizona author who'd never set foot on the Peninsula, and the nutty fans and their wallets arrived. Both were quickly embraced by the fine citizens of Forks, who know a good thing when they see it. Yay for glittery-vampire-inspired commerce!

October Dahlia

On the Beach

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Beached Pebble

Perversely, breaking my favorite camera has rekindled the urge to shoot things and post them here.

RIP: 2006-2010

My Canon PowerShot S2 met with a tragic end today. After four years of accompanying me around the world and serving without complaint; after being baked, frozen, bashed and jostled; after suffering sand, salt, snowdrifts and saguaros; and after taking the vast majority of the shots on this site, it has finally sustained mortal injury. Farewell, old friend. You will be missed.

White Sands National Monument

Alamogordo, New Mexico.

Imperial Dunes

Sun and sand, just across the state line.