In a small town near the Dunes, a local restaurant sits proudly across from a parking lot for a grocery chain, proclaiming itself. “PANCAKE HOUSE” its sign reads. It is listed as Campus Cafe, and it is true that a university is only a couple…

Silver moon, what have you seen these nights upon a lingering dream? Of all humanity’s religious focuses over our long and storied history, I always find moon-cults fascinating and compelling. Whether it be the moon itself or that which it harbors and signals, the moon…

When I’m out hunting for photos, sometimes it can feel like a real drag. Going to places other people have been, to capture stuff other people have seen, to post online where a hundred versions of the same photo is a garbage experience. So, to…

It’s the end of another day, and you can see the sun beginning to dip below the horizon. Its yellows and whites fade to red and orange as the duskborn curtains douse the flames of the fiery eye. End of watch, another final time. An…

Waterfalls are hard to photograph. You can’t really capture the sounds, the smells, the lingering dampness that stretches a half mile from the fall itself. It’s a gut-deep experience. Things like that just defy any attempt to fully summarize their experience in imagery or text.…

How much of our wonder at fragility comes from the question – when will it fail? The Leaning Tower of Pisa, The Tree of Life pictured Above, Delicate Arch in Utah – each will someday succumb to the frailty of time and come to rest…

a spear erupts from the lapping waves, the outlook grim and dark the fisherman scowls, the rain pours down, but in his eyes, a spark the day not done, a battle not won, the work is yet to cease but in the depths a monster…

Sometimes my mind returns to the somewhat silly moments in the first two Marvel Avengers movies when the Hulk has to be talked down for one reason or another. Whoever is trying to calm him down says “The sun’s getting real low, buddy.” I have…

I took the photo in this post at Crater Lake in the US. It was early June, yet the rim drive was obscured by whiteout blizzard conditions. Normally, this view should have been a grand expanse stretching from east to west but on this day…