Photo of the Day
Fresh photos from the American Southwest and my travels abroad.
Welcome. This site is primarily meant to be a place for creative daily practice in image making and storytelling. Rather than being an area to view my portfolio, photo of the day is a sandbox of photographs and ideas. One of the greatest challenges artists face are editing and committing to a creative practice of showing up, day after day, consistently. This is my focus here. Although I may not post a finished photograph every single day, I am engaged in writing, photographing, or post-processing on a daily basis. This is my commitment to my craft, myself, on behalf of the natural world.
Queen of the Bosque
In which the Grande Dame of the Desert reminds me of the beauty and wonder of all living things…
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Secrety Beauty
Beauty is hiding in places we often don’t expect to find it…
First Batch
If you don’t like apricotish snapshots you’ve come to the wrong place! (At least until my bumper crop has been polished off.) I had no concept of the size of the wave I’d end up…
Love Made Visible
Early into this waltz of fruit my heart leapt at the discovery of the sweet impression left by a soggy-bottomed apricot I picked off the kitchen…
The Endless Harvest
I’m saving the stones – each a promise of new growth – as this endless apricot harvest creeps along…
Secret Beauty
Ladybug, Ladybug fly away home! Your house is being made into jam!!!
A note about FREEDOM
As much as my mind would like to turn away and push these thoughts and images through a trap door, I’m setting an intention to bear witness to both…
The Gift of Bearing Witness
How can a photograph understand the woman who is looking? Listen to my very first PODCAST where I share my creative process, which is also a practice of paying attention…
Moon Songs
How do we place ourselves, and keep ourselves, in these wandering streams of beauty?
Happy Lucky Idiot
Because I was rushing. Because I was being a tad lazy. Because I was intent upon getting to the Star Party on time…
Wendell’s Popppy
keep still until,
moved by what moves all else,
you move.
Taking My Lizard for a Walk
Find out how taking your Lizard Brain for a walk in the sun could be the key to feeling a sense of peace and wonder…
What are you?
How do the answers change when the question shifts from who to what?
Chaco Petroglyphs
Whatever they once said to their authors, they scream their message of no message across..
Sunrays Through Pueblo Bonito
This is the first of several shots I’ll be sharing from my short trip to Chaco Canyon, the prehistoric home of the Anasazi Indians…
The Precious Life You’ve Been Given
Life is not supposed to overwhelm you at all times. Life isn’t meant to be merely survived…
Subtlety
Quiet today.
Two Suns
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one. – C.S. Lewis
Red Wing
I took a ton of shots of this little red wing blackbird without any expectations for a good shot. I was pretty far away…
Red Wing Ruffle
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like…
How Dare You?
How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable? – Seth Godin
Sheep Heaven
I’m pretty sure the luckiest sheep on the planet reside in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado. Lucky…
Seekers and Finders
In a world that is so rigged to addict us, it’s no wonder that we seek external solutions for inner muddles…
Frosty Belt of Venus
The Belt of Venus – not to be confused with Anais Nin’s Delta of Venus – is a delicate, rosy band of light that appears on the opposing horizon just before sunrise and just after…
Sandhills Surveying La Garita
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. – C.S. Lewis
See How Passionate You Are
The energy born of love is creative – it makes everything it touches new. To see how passionate you are, look…
Chilly Monte Vista Sunrise
This is the first photograph I’m posting from the photo workshop in the San Luis Valley led by the masterful wildlife and landscape photographer…
The Darker Side
We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side…
New Moon
As I watched the tiny sliver of a new moon make a rapid descent through a narrow veil of clouds last night I was reminded of just…
Janus Geese
Janus Geese“We all have two lives. the second one starts when we realize we only have one.” – Tom...
Goose Bombs
As an introvert with some seriously shy tendencies in certain situations, I can say the reason I crawl is I’d rather NOT come across like a goose…
Let’s Go!
There’s nothing like standing along the edge of a pond and witnessing thousands of snow geese take flight all at once!
When something wonderful has touched us
Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last! What a task to ask of anything, or anyone, yet it is ours…
For everything that is YES!
Today is my birthday and if there is anything that I’ve learned in my 54 years on this planet it is YES! YES! YES, damnit, YES!
Puddle-Wonderful
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. – e. e. cummings
Making a Ruckus!
I arrived in Del Norte, Colorado a day early before what I’m sure will be a wonderful San Luis Valley photo tour led by the talented wildlife photographer, Ed MacKerrow. This afternoon I visited the Monte Vista…
Landing Together
No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts.– Mark Nepo
Flying, Running, Standing
You were born with wings
why prefer to crawl through life? – Rumi
Wolf Moon or Goose Moon?
So what if it’s handheld and so what if the geese are a bit soft? I love this image because it captures the feeling I was experiencing while watching…
Sunset Snow Geese Over Cottonwood
If you visit the Bosque del Apache and linger a bit after sunset you will witness a stream of sandhill cranes and snow geese flying toward…
Flying at Night
Five billion miles away, a galaxy dies like a snowflake falling on water. Below us…
How to Understand Everything Better
“Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein
Battles Worth Fighting
o be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight…
Twilight Flight
After sunset, you can stand on the edge of one of the cornfields in the Bosque del Apache and witness thousands of sandhill cranes take flight in small family groups, soaring over….
Moving Through the World
My prayer for this generation is to wake up and recognize the presence and the vanishing of beauty. We aren’t as different as we are inclined to…
Slow Shutter Snow Geese
Slow Shutter Snow GeeseI love this shot and will share more from this particular set at some...
Golden Hour Party
Shooting straight into the afternoon sun poses significant challenges and this shot is no exception. I knew this series would be tough when…
Fields of Gold
You’ll remember me when the west wind moves upon the fields of barley
You’ll forget the sun in his jealous sky as we walk in fields of gold…
Sandhill Landing
One of the things I love about wildlife photography is the unpredictability inherent in every image. More often than not…
Wolf Moon
Perhaps it was simply my sense of anticipation about this “wolf moon,” but there was an eerie quiet that seemed to spread across…
Great Horned Owl
As I rounded a corner on the northern loop of the Bosque del Apache last month, I spotted the unmistakable silhouette of a