Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Wow, just noticed this. Can I still vote?

I made a lot of trips into Nevada. One time I drifted east across the Utah line and discovered a peculiar little mountain named Crystal Peak, made of white volcanic tuff flecked with sparkling quartz, a singular gem set amid myriad mahogany ridges. I camped in ghostly moonlight and rode a trail in ...

I need to get more "serious" about photography when I retire (soon). Every picture I've taken so far has been simple point-and-shoot, no advanced settings or adjustments, but it's amazing how well some of them have turned out.

I know the feeling of the camera not catching what I saw, the light play and ambiance. Plus, in the desert, moving across such great open distances, horizons I chase after are often unrecognizable when I get there.

sasha, thanks. Yes, when I posted my Utah pics to S8 (and AC) years ago, "otherworldly" was a common reaction-- rightly so. The shots of Canyonlands N.P. and the "goosenecks" of the San Juan "River" (those "meandering stream canyons carved deep in rock by little trickles that couldn't have done the ...

I wanted to see the red cliffs of the desert Southwest, the ones in old western films. So I headed east across Nevada's gradual rise and fall toward Utah's steep cliffs. How could these two states share a border? Yet at the border they shared the same Nevada-like open majesty, and cowboys made a li...

Gotta mention Diana Ross here-- Love Hangover-- heard it on an old tape I found, what a great song, but it's not the disco-y part I like as much as the long, slow intro...

You're right. It will continue forever in some form, even after the sun burns out. I should write more actual poetry. Seems I've mostly been onto confessionals and venting of late...

Nice captures!

The rat race.
Sitting behind a damned desk
all day, year after year.
When will it end!?
(Getting closer.)

Trying to figure out the end game here. All anyone seems to be capable of telling me lately is that "we win and you lose." How nice.

Too late.

Now that the world is suddenly worth money, does a Christian sort of religion make sense? There are passages in the Bible of taking control and dominion because God said so, and as far as I can tell and I'm not very smart, that seems a problem. Yet here we are after world war centuries and fuzzy mil...

I had a "housemate" who hated those daddy longlegs,
but I always thought they were kinda cool and I just
left them alone

Indeed. Bob Marley launched it for me. 2000-2001 was a weird time for me. I sensed we were heading into a much different time than the second half of the '90s. I quit my job for a while to bum around the desert-- ALL of the different deserts-- the Mojave, the Great Basin, the Sonoran, the Chihuahuan...