My Favorite Bristlecone
I am very excited to be heading back to the Bristlecone Pine groves of the White Mountains in California near the Nevada border next week. These trees, among the oldest…
Shortlisted in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2012 Competition
I am honored that my image Distant Night Storm in the Patriarch Grove has been shortlisted in the Royal Observatory Greenwich Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2012 competition. Click here to read…
My Favorite Bristlecone
This is my favorite tree in the Patriarch Grove of Bristlecone Pines. Even when we pretend neutrality (as with our kids) the truth is that we likely have our favorites.…
Ancient Music of the Stars
The Bristlecone Pines were in their youth when Odysseus plowed the Aegean in search of a way home to his Ithaca. These trees were already ancient when Julius Caesar crossed…
Layers and the Landscape
In some ways, layers define the landscape at large. When a landscape consists of layers stretching out to the distant horizon, the details become abstracted, and we can imagine ourselves…
Poetry
The Garden of Wilderness The garden of wilderness was my heart's delight: gray dawn met alpenglow in the long morning of deep rivers and distant mountains. Windswept timberline tarns; far…
Ancient Bristlecone Pine
These ancient trees---thousands of years old---thrive in the dry, alkaline soil of their high mountain range. They face the day and night and gradually grow old. Perhaps they are wise,…
Ladyboot Arch
Ladyboot Arch, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is an image of Ladyboot Arch, named for perhaps obvious reasons, shot in the Alabama Hills on the last…