Today one of my favorite subjects, the rugged but beautiful American west.

Since I was a child and watched the cowboy movies and television shows featuring the “old west”, the landscapes from that area have fascinated me.

I first traveled the west with my parents on a vacation, and repeated a similar trip with my wife later in life. We eventually moved west and then after I came back to the upper Midwest. I then went west with cameras to capture what was there, and did so as I saw it.

Only Oregon, Nevada and California missed my camera lens although I have been to California and a tiny bit in Nevada. Everything else was covered to one extent or another.

While Colorado has its share of rock forms and a certain amount of desert, the high slopes both rocky and oft times green, are the signature of Colorado.

At 14,000 feet and above, the greenery disappears, but rock forms sometimes take over..

Colorado has its share of canyons, often deep and wide, but sometimes a lonely tree will live at the edge if you will, and they often became a fascination for me, in and of themselves.

While we think of Texas as the old west, it is usually the prairies that come to mind. Truth is, west Texas has rock forms of its own.

All imagery we make along the roads we travel, do not need an obvious signature of its location. Sometimes composing rock, cloud splattered sky, and texture is the point to clicking the shutter regardless of locations. Sometimes, perspective, is a subject.

That’s right, I know not where I made this one.

Utah may have the most beautiful rock country of all.

The legendary Monument Valley, Utah is iconic enough that most of us have seen its rock forms many times in the movies, TV, and calendars and such.

Storm on the horizon.

May God Bless,
Wayne

1 John 1:12
I write unto you little children, because your sins are forgiven you for His (Jesus) name’s sake (because of what He did on the Cross)

John 1:13
I write unto you fathers, because you have known Him (Jesus) who is from the very beginning.