A genius, so to speak, for sauntering

...notes on the landscape, wilderness & photography

August, 2008

A couple new still life shots
21 | posted under: New Images
Magnolia Seed Pod, Studio

I've added a couple recent still life photographs from the archives to the recent photos gallery. These are part of a larger series of botanical images, which I will be uploading soon.

Litus: Photographs of Water
19 | posted under: New Images
Pacific Ocean, California

I am gradually adding new scans and a few new images from an ongoing love of making photographs of the ocean. I am sometimes dissatisfied with the concreteness of photography and these photos allow me to escape the camera's ...

A couple headlines
19 | posted under: Musings

Two stories each worth considering in the context of the other:

'Off-Road Rage' Climbs as Trails Get More Crowded
from The Washington Post

Bid to allow guns in national parks
from The Christian Science Monitor

The roads less travelled
14 | posted under: Musings · Wilderness
Somewhere near the Telaquana Trail, Lake Clark National Park

Here is an interesting and important ruling from the U.S. District court involving wilderness and the statute R.S.2477, which state and local governments have been trying to use to allow them to build roads and ATV trails ...

Chicago Images from the archive
11 | posted under: New Images
Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center, Chicago, Illinois

I've added five images to the website from the old days in Chicago. Until I have uploaded enough to fill a portfolio page, they can be found in recent images. The image above is from one of my favorite ...

Rescuing obsolete formats
07 | posted under: Musings · New Images
Espresso Cup and Raw Sugar, Studio

I am adding a handful of older still life photographs shot on 4x5 transparency film and scanned several years ago on the Kodak Pro Photo CD system. These were excellent scans for their time at a bargain price, and although ...

Media and Reporting Environmental Issues
04 | posted under: Wilderness · Media

Today I am looking at the reporting of an environmental story starting with three headlines published within one day of each other. They are all reporting the same event—the release of a report by the Office of the Inspector ...