Tag: Travels
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Summer on Lake Michigan
I’m still culling and editing images from this past summer. This image was taken at the Indiana Dunes National Park which is a “newer” national park” in Indiana on the shores of Lake Michigan. This is a Leica B&W image of the steps leading up and away from the beach area.
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Driftwood Beach, Amelia Island
Here’s an image taken just off Amelia Island on my first day in Florida on my way to the keys. Unfortunately, due to hurricane Milton I had to cut my trip short.
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Another Road Trip!
by: JM This time it’s a solo trip as the spouse is back teaching. I am heading southward to Miami Beach and the Florida Keys to generate gallery images as well as stock images. Not that I don’t have enough images already! Currently, I have almost 14,000 images sitting in Lightroom that still need review,…
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Coulee Dam – Washington State
“It always feels impossible until it’s done.” Where is it located? The land is dry and barren and consists of plains and coulees ( a dry ravine or gully formed by water erosion.) The Coulee Dam is located in central Washington state, 80 miles northwest of Spokane on the upper Columbia River, in a section…
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Montana Ghost Towns Virginia City – Nevada City
* “Walking through a ghost town is like stepping back in time and witnessing the remnants of lost dreams.” What is about ghost towns that are so alluring? Is it the emptiness? The curiosity of the lives of the people that lived there so long ago? Who were they? What drew them to this place?…
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Devils Tower, Wyoming
By: JM If anyone remembers the 1978 movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” with Richard Dreyfus, then you’ll recognize this amazing and beautiful landmark. This landmark is sacred to the local native Americans and when we arrived there they were having a ceremony in which no cameras were allowed when we pulled into the…
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Our First Destination in the Vans Nav!
by: JM We are getting closer and closer. Last night I added our first “official destination” of the Grand Tetons. Not that we won’t be stopping anywhere, just this is my first photographic stop. This past weekend was spent preparing our packing lists, reviewing those lists, and beginning the process of packing some of our…
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Moving forward on our Journey – the prep begins for our Trip.
by: JM We are preparing for our upcoming trip which will take us into Montana, Wyoming, Canada and the Yukon; then up into southern Alaska, and back down through British Columbia into Washington State as well as Olympic and Mt. Rainier National Parks. From there we’ll travel down the Washington State coast as I’m a…