Brief notes on the photos in the banner - click on the tiny pictures to enlarge.

Monument Valley photo in banner Monument Valley, 1985 - taken at dusk looking northwest near Goulding's with a 300mm lens and in the company of a few chirping bats - at least they seemed to be chirping. It was early October and the air was like velvet.

Gossips and sheep rock, Arches NP, Utah The Gossips and Sheep Rock, Arches National Park, Utah in May of 1989. Entrada formation, for you Geology buffs. This was taken from a spot not far from where Edward Abbey's trailer was parked in DESERT SOLITAIRE

flowering Flowering "grizzly bear" prickly pear cactus south of Page, Arizona along the Colorado river. I think this was in April of 1989.

Dead Cottonwood tree by moonlight, Az, May 1990
Dead Cottonwood tree by moonlight, near Sierra Vista, Arizona in May of 1990. This was at dusk in a Nature Conservancy area that has a rather lengthy name I can't recall starting with "San Pedro riparian..."