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Healing Places
We lost our beautiful dog Maggie this past weekend. She was about twelve – not young but not terribly old, either. Her passing was still sudden and unexpected. I remember picking her up at a dreary...
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2013 in Retrospect
The end of a calendar year may seem an arbitrary time for reflection, but there’s something powerful about so many people doing it at the same time, making trends, commonalities and differences more...
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Working From Home
It may be true that art should be able to stand on its own, but I find that my appreciation of a given work almost always benefits significantly from knowing something about the artist, why they do...
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End of Season Reflections
“… inevitably the bathroom mirror shows the first white hairs … inevitably eyesight begins to fail and mysterious pains begin to shoot through the body. … these intimations of mortality plainly...
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Reentry
Between grief and nothing I will take grief. –William Faulkner Some weeks ago, as many of you likely were preparing for the Christmas holiday, I found myself again seeking solace in the...
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Another (Birth)day
Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions – not outside. ~Marcus Aurelius For some years now I made it a tradition of sorts to commemorate my...
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In the Blink of a Lifetime
There is no telling what secrets and revelations may haunt in these lonesome wee hours of the night. I spent four days on empty roads, walked in untrammeled alpine meadows and slept among the verdant...
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A Drive with a Futurist
Few things have the power to lure me away from my beloved home at the feet of Utah’s majestic Aquarius Plateau; but the chance to spend a couple of days hiking the canyons with my good friend Steve is...
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Canyon Time
As I have for quite a few years, among the first things I do after a long absence is spend a couple of days by myself in a remote canyon, to reconnect with old friends – places and spirits, rock and...
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Restlessness
I believe that curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and...
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Memories Of Wars
At the encouragement of readers, and perhaps against my better judgment, I’ll be sharing more of my journal entries from the wild. This one is for the wounded, for the damaged, for anyone carved with...
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It was a Warm and Stormy Night
It started like any other summer Friday in Torrey. Right around 5pm a peaceful silence falls over the town and the work week is almost palpably over. Despite the sparse traffic, on days like this I...
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Endangered Experiences
Between ourselves and actual experience and the actual environment there now swells an ever-rising flood of images which come to us in every sort of medium—the camera and printing press, by motion...
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Quiet Adventures
This article was adapted from a piece I wrote for PHOTOGRAPH Magazine in 2015. Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease. ~Naguib Mahfouz After three days in the...
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Reawakening
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of...
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Photography and Place
I seek out places where it can happen more readily, such as deserts or mountains or solitary areas, or by myself with a seashell, and while I’m there get into states of mind where I’m more open than...
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Twenty Eighteen
Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld!Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night!I feel ye now – I feel ye in your strength. ~Edgar Allan Poe I was about to start this post saying that 2018 had been a...
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