Most of my recent posts — anything from early 2020 onward — were taken within walking distance of my home here in Laramie, Wyoming. Sometimes I don’t even make it past the yard; the skies in this valley often do all the work for me.

Born in the late ’40s, I eventually traded the East for the wide‑open light of the Great Laramie Plains. These days I wander the prairies and the nearby Medicine Bow National Forest with my dog, usually with a stereo rig or an infrared setup in hand.

A lot of the stereo pairs in my stream come from Canon G9 point‑and‑shoots using the cha‑cha method, processed in Stereo Photo Maker. Simple cameras, surprisingly powerful results — and yes, it’s addictive.

The infrared work comes from a Minolta DiMage 7 with an IR720 filter. For the more recent stereo IR images, I’ve paired two DiMage 7s together. With a shared remote they sync beautifully, even when I’m bracketing exposures for HDR.

I’ve also started scanning my old film. The Stereo Realist pairs you’ll see are part of that project. Some of these negatives were shot decades ago and never printed — darkroom work was slow, and producing a single Holmes card took ages. Now I can scan and process a dozen negatives in an hour. Seeing old work for the first time has been a thrill.

Recent sunsets, rainbows, and sky shots?

Most of those were taken just steps from my door. The atmospherics in the Laramie Valley can be astonishing.

Life at 7,400 feet stays lively. Between the Medicine Bow high country and the University of Wyoming, there’s always something happening — even through the long winters. And when summer falls on a weekend, we go on a picnic or play baseball.

A bit of trivia: Laramie is named after French trapper, Jacques La Ramée, whose name now marks a city, a county, a river, a mountain range, a peak, a U.S. fort, a TV series, a play, a geologic orogeny, and even a prehistoric continent. Around here, some folks call the place “Laradise.” Wyoming really is a small town with very long streets.

Copyright note:

Most of my photographs are copyrighted. If you’d like to use one, please contact me. I often grant free use with attribution.