late august evenings in the sierras
“oh, I live in a desert and-”
“wow that must be so terrible” “deserts are so ugly” “I would never want to live in a wasteland like that” “it’s just empty nothingness”
wishing 10,000 exploding hammers upon you
behold New Mexico
[ID 1: tall, snowcapped rocky mountains rising above a plain filled with desert scrub
ID 2: brightly colored banded cliff walls of several mesas climbing their way into mountains
ID 3: a desert prairie
ID 4: colorful hoodoos against a twilight sky
ID 5: white sand dunes as far as the eye can see
ID 6: a collection of hoodoos against a stormy sky at sunset
ID 7: a juniper tree standing with a cliff wall in the background
ID 8: several juniper trees on a rocky landscape]
And the Mojave!
Have some Utah! too.
And those last two should be a reminder that humans have been living and thriving in the desert for thousands of years!
My beloved Sonoran Desert
Black cat audition and casting for the film TALES OF TERROR
Photographed by Ralph Crane
Ka’amed photographed by Obidigbo Nzeribe
Cold October afternoon - Spanish Fork, Utah
September 2, 2021 at 12:46PM
Großer Rußweiher, Bavaria, Germany
Very october
I need to hold this bridge, doomed against many foes while my warriors retreat to the citadel…
so true
The moss garden at Tofukuji Temple, Kyoto, Japan.
a lot on my mind right now (broths)
Mei and her daughter Joon, both Lar gibbons (also known as white-handed gibbons) at the Oakland zoo.
There are two of my favorite photos I've ever taken, because of the sheer luck in getting them. They were easily twenty feet up in the foliage of this tree, and Joon was happily rampaging across the habitat treetops as only a baby gibbon can do. So I picked a spot where I had a clear shot, set my autofocus to follow her, and set the shutter to burst every time I thought I got a glimpse of a blonde blur.
And then I checked my camera roll and found these two shots. I was stunned.
Joon was born on May 31st, 2023, so she's just a little under a year old in my photos.
SHELLEY DUVALL
Europa, Io, Jupiter, Ganymede and Callisto moments after reappearing on the lunar edge. Credit: blancoo73
August skies
2024