I WILL NOT GO QUIETLY.....

Peculiar, Missouri 4 November 1995

Sisiter Image to "Moving on..."

Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico October 1990

Reader, Steve, asked if I had "brother image" to my last post, and with a little thinking, I came up with this one made six year prior and almost 500 miles further south. Both are scans from 8x10 B&W negatives.

Moving Onward....into '96

San Juan National Forest, Colorado 13 October 1996

There are places in Colorado and Utah where the graffiti goes a bit further than so-in-so loves so-in-so. I remember well this set of aspens high up in the Rockies. There were hunters camping in groups about every hundred yards or so, and I kept asking myself if it was a smart move to be up roaming around the mountains during hunting season. One could hear the report of high powered rifles bouncing off the mountains while I sought shelter under my focusing cloth -- like a piece of black cloth is bullet proof, right? In spite of it all, I still found it interesting to find "christian" graffiti carved into the trees. No doubt to remind all those hunters they were up there to slaughter four-legged creatures and not about competitive bouts of consuming "lite" beer.

Man Vs.......

Big Bend National Park, Texas 24 Feb 1995

When Scotia-Waterous published my book, ROCK, RIVER & THORN, The Big Bend of the Rio Grande, in 2001, this is the one image I had selected for inclusion that the designers and editors ask that I not include. Said it might give some the wrong impression about oil and gas exploration. After all, Scotia-Waterous was in the business of brokering oil and gas lease deals for hugh sums of money. Yeah, I gave in mostly because they were spending a lot of money on this publication and me. Life is always a set compromises, give a little, take a little. But I have always felt strongly about this image, it's statement about how man and nature come up against each other, and the results of that collision.

SOME DAYS....

Grafton, Massachusetts October 1994

WILD THINGS

Libbie and the Wild Things....1986?

MODERN POSTISM

Bordentown, New Jersey August 1992