While at a roadside pullout along Alberta Highway 93A in Jasper National Park with a view looking to the south-southeast. This is while standing along the shoreline of Leach Lake with a mountain backdrop that included Mount Fryatt and Whirlpool Mountain. I decided to angle my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward as I felt it better brought out that view to allow the eyes to slowly move across this national park landscape and be drawn into the image.I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 6 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

After spending the early morning photographing wildflowers and yesterday's landscape shot, I headed back to my campsite. En route, I noticed a few cars at a pullout, a few people with cameras and tripods, so I stopped. It was the best kind of bear jam: a steep embankment prevented anyone from trying to approach, allowing the Black Bear sow and her cub the necessary space to not feel stressed or threatened.

Mama Bear had discovered something edible partway up a poplar tree - likely ants or grubs - but her cub was only interested in playing. It kept tugging at mom's ear, distracting her and earning a few swats, none of which were a deterrent. It isn't often that you can view bears up a tree - at eye level!

Photographed in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2008 James R. Page - all rights reserved.

While at a roadside pullout along Trans-Canada Highway 1 with a view looking to the southwest across a nearby forest and lakes to the more distant ridges and peaks of Mount Rundle (Rundle Peaks). This is at the Vermilion Lakes Viewpoint in Banff National Park.

While at a roadside pullout along U.S. Route 82 in Lincoln National Forest with a view looking to the west. My thought on composing this image was to angle my Nikon SLR camera uphill with a view looking towards this grove of aspens I came across. I wanted to have a complementary setting of colors with the blue skies and clouds above in contrast to the greens and yellows and other earth-tones in the lower portion of the image. The last thought I had was to go wide angle with the focal length to capture that feeling of standing and taking in the entire setting to one's front.

Still in Kootenay, but a much more recent shot (only ten years old!). The Vermillion River runs parallel with Highway 93, the park's only highway and the route that connects it with Banff, in Alberta. One afternoon I found a pullout, and after a short walk, this view along the shoreline, looking north.

It was late August, sublime weather - these were the years when forest fire smoke was not a huge factor - and although I was on my way to the west coast to visit a sick friend, I camped in the park for two nights and hiked a couple of the shorter trails. That brought back memories. A few years earlier, I used Kootenay as the starting point for a fairly long backpacking trip into Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park. It's the most physically challenging way to access this spectacular area, but the up side was pretty special: nobody uses this route. So I had a couple nights of very quiet camping at increasingly dramatic locations as I got up out of the forest and into the high country. I hiked this trail three times, in 1979, 1988, and 1990, and made it all the way twice. In 1988 a massive early snowfall forced me to turn back. These were my glory days, and every time I drive Highway 93 through this park, I get to relive them!

I used my trusty old (from 1981) manual focus Nikon 24mm lens for this, with a polarizing filter to intensify the colours a little. It's a great lens; I still use it occasionally.

Photographed in Kootenay National Park, BC (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2013 James R. Page - all rights reserved.

A scene in Monument Valley Utah. I captured this looking back toward the Southeast from the Highway. There are several pullouts along this long strech of road that give a different vantage point of the valley.

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While at a roadside pullout along the Icefields Parkway with a view looking to the southeast to ridges and peaks around the Columbia Icefield area. This is in Jasper National Park.

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We drove through some uber fast and expensive autobahn in Italy that had speed limits but no one seems to follow them. Our rental feather light Lancia feels like it’s ready to fly off the road when driving above speed limit. In the smaller towns, there are some ridiculously hard to drive single lane roads that honestly had to be made for one way by mistake and ended up being used for 2 way travel instead.. There are tiny pullouts here and there and whoever that’s closer to the pullout will either drive into it or reverse into it. Italians drive in reverse gear as fast as they drive forward lol pretty cool. Along the weaving and meandering roads, we lost count of the number of lone churches we saw but this one, San Giovanni church, is definitely my favorite!

Ranuihof, Val di Funes, Italy

Ridge after ridge fades into blue haze beneath a restless summer sky. The foreground treeline anchors the frame while the clouds and distant layers carry the eye toward the horizon.

This is one location I have been wanting to photograph now for over a few years. The Samuel H Boardman Scenic Corridor is located in Southern Oregon. There are miles of rugged coastline, pullouts, hiking trails, and really just jaw dropping vistas.

This area is called the Natural Bridges location. There is a scenic overlook to the left of the very small parking lot and then there is a "trail" (not really a trail so much) to the right.

The hike down the cliff is filled with trees, tree roots, loose dirt, sand, and cliff edges. The first few steps are pretty easy down the hill. Then it becomes much more difficult and dangerous. Large steps straight down. There is at one point a rope to help rappel yourself down even further. There were moments where I had to rely on trees to make my next stop. There were times I was scooting on my butt to make sure I didn't make any false moves over the cliff's edge. Once you get to the bottom you come upon this scene. You can keep going forward past where this young lady was onto the "Natural Bridge" but one would really be risking it to exposed cliff edges on both sides. I've seen many sunset and night images from this point but I really can't see someone making this hike without careful planning and some headlights and tons of patience. There is no way I would go down at night. I will tell you might heart was racing when I got to the bottom.

As I was researching the hike I came upon this info which I think describes it pretty well:

"This trail is not for the faint of heart and should be rated as DIFFICULT. Mostly because it’s incredibly steep and the terrain is just loose sand and dirt with a few shrubs and tree roots sticking out here and there.

The trail is downhill toward the Natural bridges, and if you don’t have a sound footing while coming down, there IS a chance of continuing off the cliff. This is not a joke nor a trail to be taken lightly. It’s short but steep, and there’s not much to hold on to so please hike this section of Samual H. Boardman carefully."

I was shooting from this location and the Secret Beach area (just a few miles up the road) for this evening shoot. It was such a rush. Luckily another couple was hiking this trail just a few steps ahead of me. I caught this young lady taking a selfie.

Mike D.

From a roadside pullout along the Blue Ridge Parkway at the Rock Mountain Overlook. The setting is looking to the southwest with ridges and peaks of the Northern Blue Ridge (Garnet Peak and Silver Peak being two identified on my PeakVisor app). In composing this image, I took advantage of the higher ground I was located on and angled my Nikon Z8 Mirrorless Camera slightly downward. I wanted to bring the horizon higher into the image and create a sweeping view across the ridges and peaks and the way they layered, seemingly one after the other.

While at a roadside pullout along the Maligne Lake Road in Jasper National Park. Here I captured a set of images of this mother black bear and her cubs as they ate various grasses and wildflowers in this field. As I pressed the shutter, she seemingly just happen to be looking in my direction.

Cape Arago Lighthouse. Shore Acres State Park, Coos Bay, Oregon. This lighthouse is the the least accessible of the Oregon lighthouses and it's no longer operational. The lighthouse is on private land and can be viewed at a distance from a pullout on Cape Arago road.

While at a roadside pullout along Artists Dr in Death Valley National Park with a view looking to the west-southwest to a nearby hillside and then more distant ridges and peaks of the Panamint Range. My thought on composing this image was to capture a layered look that came about from the contrast of colors on the nearby and then more distant ridges. Nearby was the darker colored hillside and ridge, while the mountains off in the distance had more of a bluer hue, along the snowcapped peaks. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 6 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

While at a roadside pullout along the Alpine Loop Scenic Backway, with a view looking to the southwest to ridges and peaks coming off the southern portion of Mount Timpanogos in the Central Wasatch Range. This location is in Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. My thought on composing this image was to use a wide angle focal length to capture more of the distant mountain range. But I also wanted to use some of the nearby forest of evergreens and aspens to create a layered approach leading up to those mountains. I felt both aspects helped to bring out more of a complete setting to this national forest landscape.

While at a roadside pullout along Indian Service Rte 5 with a view looking to the north-northwest across the northern New Mexico high desert setting. Ford Butte is the formation off in the distance.

A setting looking to the northeast while taking in views across a Utah high desert setting at a roadside pullout. The view has ridges and peaks of the House Range (with Notch Peak being the most prominent). My thought on composing this image was to zoom in a little with the focal length and focus on this one portion of the mountain range to my front. I would include some foreground to use as a layered approach leading up to the mountains. The blue skies and clouds would be that color contrast to complement the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image.

Shot from a pullout along River Road, and framed by code line poles, the local has completed switching, put its train back together and departed Hancock Yard. With work completed and an “all clear” from the conductor, GP9 5958 and F7A 4535 accelerate up to track speed in the late afternoon light.

Kamloops & Whisler, CANADÀ 2024

The Seton Lake Lookout is a popular viewing point located near the historic town of Lillooet in British Columbia, Canada. It sits along the Duffy Lake Road section of Highway 99, which is one of the most scenic routes in the region.

Key Highlights:

Panoramic Views: The main draw is the spectacular vista overlooking Seton Lake, a fjord-like lake surrounded by mountains (part of the Cayoosh Range) with waters often exhibiting a striking turquoise or emerald green colour due to glacial silt.

The Famous Curve: The lookout is particularly renowned for offering a dramatic view of a hairpin turn of Highway 99 in the foreground, snaking along the lake's edge.

Access: The viewpoint is reached via a very short and easy hike (about 1 km round trip) from a roadside pullout. It is a must-see stop for stretching legs and taking photos while travelling between Pemberton and Lillooet.

History: The area is located on the traditional territory of the St'át'imc Nation and is near a recreation area where historical remains from the Gold Rush era can be found.

A setting looking to the southwest while taking in views at a roadside pullout along the main park road in the Many Glacier area of Glacier National Park. The setting is of cloud hidden ridges and peaks of the Northern Lewis Range and Continental Divide.

While at a pullout along Vermilion Lakes Road with a view looking to the southeast in Banff National Park. With this setting I was attempting to line up the composition to capture a look across the still waters of Vermillion Lakes with the mountain reflections. I then wanted a leveled-on view with the horizon; a balance between mountains and their reflections. My focus was on Mount Rundle and pulled back on the focal length to include some other ridges with the nearby forest.

Bowman Lake is located in the North Fork area in the northwest corner of Glacier National Park. North Fork is kind of off the beaten path. It is accessible only by private vehicle on unpaved roads. The good news is there are fewer tourists.

At seven miles long and half a mile wide Bowman Lake covers about 2,250 acres, making it the third largest lake in the park, after Lake McDonald and Saint Mary Lake. From the west entrance of the park the drive to Bowman Lake is along 30 plus miles of rough, dusty, dirt road with blind curves and limited pullouts; but there wasn’t much traffic.

Bowman Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Elevation: 4,003 ft. August 7, 2019.

A setting looking to the northwest while taking in views across the northern New Mexico high desert with a distant view to the Shiprock formation. This is at a roadside pullout along Indian Service Rte 13. With this image, I pulled back on the focal length to include more of the surrounding landscape to add to the setting in the image captured.

There’s a Road Straight Ahead for Me to Take

It's been winding and sometimes it’s long in the past

But it’s always true

Leading me forward

Never looking at my rear view mirror

I'm going to the mountains

And will never return

Another work of short poetry or prose to complement the image captured one morning while driving up to Guadalupe Mountains National Park. This is at a roadside pullout along Texas State Highway 54. The view is looking to the north with the peaks and ridges in the national park off in the distance. A lone raven was soaring above and attempted to include that in the captured image. The rest of the image composition was attempting to line up the highway with the look straight ahead but also trying to center the Guadalupe Mountains with the image. I wanted to capture a sweeping view across the road leading up to those mountains and closed down on the aperture to ensure that most of the image would be in focus.

While in Yellowstone last week, we had the opportunity to watch this grizzly sow and cub for a few minutes. The sow was leading the cub through the sage towards the road so as to cross to the other side.

We came upon them while we were driving down the road. There were a few people who had seen them, and pulled over. After initially stopping near the other vehicles, we pulled off on a pullout near a small rise, near an area where I had seen wolves cross the road on several occasions. Just as we pulled off the road, it began to snow lightly.

My guess paid off, and the bears came towards us, then turned to cross the road about 130 meters away. This is the same area I have seen the wolves cross the road on previous occasions.

Luck was with us that day, and this is the result.

At a pullout along the Capitol Gorge Road with a view looking to the northwest through some nearby cliff walls to the Golden Throne off in the distance. My thinking in composing this image was to pull back a little on the focal length, including some of the nearby cliff walls to frame the setting of the foreground, and draw the viewer into the image with the more distant sandstone formation of the Golden Throne. This is in Capitol Reef National Park.

While at a roadside pullout along Southside Dr with a view looking to the north-northwest across the Merced River to a black bear roaming along the far shore in Yosemite National Park.

While at a roadside pullout along Texas State Highway 54 with a view looking to the west and across the Chihuahuan Desert present at this location. My thought on composing this image would be to have the horizon more or less leveled-on and use the foreground with the desert plant-life and wild grasses leading up to the mountains off in the distance. Those ridges and peaks would intern fill up most of the upper portion of the image but have some skies above to be that color contrast to complement the earth-tones present. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 5 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

Another fun LBL find at the pullout near Honker Bay! I had just pulled my long lens out of my pack and this guy landed on the tree right in front of me.

We came to this pullout area at the right time last Saturday when we observed the sun going down behind us. When I viewed toward El Capitan and Half Dome in the far distance, I then realized that this alpenglow on the ridge could very well be the one responsible for the Firefalls phenomenon just a few weeks ago in October. It was a very rare occasion as we don't normally see any rain or snow during that time of the year. It was truly amazing to see this right in front of our eyes. If you hover your mouse pointer over El Capitan, you can see my tag where Firefalls was supposed to be at.

Explore #279, November 11th, 2021

A setting looking to the northeast while taking in views across a mountain desert setting at a roadside pullout along Badwater Road. This location is in Death Valley National Park.

While at a roadside pullout along the Icefields Parkway with a view looking to the southeast to ridges and peaks around the Columbia Icefield area. This is in Jasper National Park.

Undine Falls in Yellowstone National Park is a 60-foot waterfall located just off the Grand Loop Road, about 4 miles east of Mammoth Hot Springs. It's easily accessible with a short walk from a pullout, making it a popular spot for a quick stop. The falls consist of three plunges as Lava Creek descends over a basalt lava flow. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, May 29025

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From Holbrook we continued our Navajo Nation trip at Petrified Forest National Park and the Painted Desert. We entered through the south entrance.

This is the view of the Painted Desert looking east from the Painted Desert Inn.

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Colorful badlands meet the Mother Road in Arizona’s high desert.Looking like pastel mounds of Neapolitan ice cream, Northern Arizona’s Painted Desert is a vast, striated badlands that extends some 150 miles from the eastern end of the Grand Canyon into Petrified Forest National Park. A geologist’s other-worldly paradise, the colorful hills, flat-topped mesas and sculptured buttes of the Painted Desert are primarily made up of the Chinle Formation, mainly river-related deposits dating back some 200 million years. Inhabited by indigenous people for thousands of years, the multi-hued sweep of pigmented rock in the arid high desert received its present name in the 1540s from the Spanish explorer Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, who called the area El Desierto Pintado.

While much of the Painted Desert is located in remote areas of the Navajo Nation, the portion within the northern section of Petrified Forest National Park is the easiest to access. Get your bearings through the interpretive exhibits at the Painted Desert Visitor Center. If you’re short on time, the best place to see the Painted Desert is via a drive on the Main Park Road, which makes a loop from the visitor center and back out to Interstate 40. Plenty of pullouts and interpretive signage offer reasons to stop, learn, view and take that Instagram-worthy shot of the landscape. Need to get in your daily steps? The Tawa and Painted Desert Rim trails get you into the grassland ecosystem and offer wide-open views of colorful geology. Keep your eyes peeled for coyotes, jackrabbits, pronghorn, mule deer, hawks and other locals. Hiking the sunny trails in spring and late summer? Seasonal rains make wildflowers blossom.

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The Painted Desert is a United States desert of badlands in the Four Corners area,[2] running from near the east end of Grand Canyon National Park and southeast into Petrified Forest National Park. It is most easily accessed from the north portion of Petrified Forest National Park. The Painted Desert is known for its brilliant and varied colors: these include the more common red rock, but also shades of lavender.

The Painted Desert was named by a Spanish expedition under Francisco Vázquez de Coronado during his 1540 quest to find the Seven Cities of Cibola. He located these some 40 miles (60 km) east of Petrified Forest National Park. Finding the cities were not made of gold, Coronado sent an expedition to find the Colorado River to gain supplies. Passing through the wonderland of colors, they named the area El Desierto Pintado ("The Painted Desert").[3]

Much of the Painted Desert within Petrified Forest National Park is protected as Petrified Forest Wilderness, where motorized travel is limited.[4]

Navajo Nation 2025

After leaving Skye we headed towards Inverary. As we headed east along the A87 we happened across an incredible pullout just west of Glen Garry Viewpoint West. While we only got a sliver of Loch Garry below, the light filtering through clouds and fog gave us an amazing scene. Of many mind-blowing views in Scotland, the clouds and light along our A87 drive were the craziest we saw in Scotland.

This was taken roughly an hour after my earlier shot of the Milky Way above Emerald Bay in South Lake Tahoe. As the sky continued to grow brighter, Tom and I, and several other photographers by this point, began jockeying for position to begin shooting a very promising looking sunrise. The majority of the photographers chose one of three spots and pretty much stuck with it through the golden hour, but I simply found it impossible to stay in one spot for longer than 5 or 10 minutes. So if you were shooting in South Lake Tahoe on Feb 19, I was the one buzzing around between the overlook on the Western side, the pullout directly South of the lake, and Eagle Falls. Most of the color disappeared inside of 15 minutes, but I did manage to grab SOME color in all three spots.

Following 4 hours of solid shooting, we headed off to grab a well earned breakfast (we had just driven up to Big Sur, shot through the night in San Francisco and were now shooting the sunrise in Lake Tahoe) at Jack in the Box and then we were off to find Bonzai Rock on what turned out to be an absolutely glorious day at Lake Tahoe. We paid for our manic shooting schedule in spades on the 9 hour drive back to Laguna Beach, but it was definitely worth it. So much so that we ended up trying it again to catch a snow storm in Tahoe roughly a week later. Tahoe seems like an awfully long way from Orange County, but between the sunrise and the snowstorm, both Tom and I felt it was worth it and you can bet we'll be back as soon as we get a chance.

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While at a roadside pullout along Maligne Lake Road with a view looking to the southwest to a mother black bear and her cubs eating away. This is in Jasper National Park. In composing this image, I attempted to center the mother and one of her cubs, as they were eating grasses and wildflowers in this field.

It appears that all of the pullout job EMDs at Northtown have been replaced by former Santa Fe C44-9Ws. Doesn't get much worse than this.

Along Hwy 14 and on Vancouver Island, BC are numerous pullouts, and various delights to see. This one, shows the Muir Creek with old growth forest area. It was a rainy day but the river was flowing with great ferocity. Most interesting was the color of the water itself. Coming off the slight waterfalls, it turned a distinctive shade of lime green which added to the otherwise lack of color in this landscape image.

Explore #329

Say that three times fast.

On the Foothills Parkway very near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park you'll find this overlook at the Look Rock "pullout". As you descend those steps, before you will be magnificent vistas of these beautiful fog shrouded mountains.

At a roadside pullout along California State Route 36 with a view looking to the northwest up a small hillside with prairie grasses and scattered volcanic rock debris. I chose to angle my Nikon Z8 Mirrorless Camera slightly downward to create more of a sweeping view looking up this hillside and minimize what I felt was the more negative space of the blue skies above.

Despite Múlafossur being the first image of the Faroe Islands I had ever seen, and the spark for my fascination for this North Atlantic archipelago, it was not the first place I visited on my first day there. I made the drive up to the village of Saksun because it seemed as good a place to start as any. I would come to discover in my stay on the Faroe Islands that a list of places to visit there is all well and good but in truth you can go just about anywhere here and be amazed for one reason or another.

Saksun is a village on the northern tip of the largest island of Streymoy. The capital city of Tórshavn sits at the southern tip of the same island and the drive between the two places only takes about 45 minutes. It is indicative of driving on the Faroes: there are no real long distances here. You can drive as far as possible from one side of the archipelago to the other in less than two hours. That is assuming you don't stop and not stopping is difficult to do here. Every bend in the road hugs gorgeous scenery and thank god for the frequent pullouts...

The drive up to Saksun was my first experience of this in the Faroes. Despite the 45 minute drive time, it probably took me twice that long to reach this village after frequent pullovers. The final several kilometers also introduced me to the one-lane roads common in the more "rural" sections of the Faroes where you have a single lane of traffic and small pullouts every 100m with the car having the pullout to their right cedes right away to oncoming vehicles. I cannot imagine what this must be like when the summer tourist season begins and frequent vehicles are making the trek out to places like Saksun. It made me glad I was visiting in the spring when I only saw three or four other vehicles my whole time out there.

The main draw to Saksun is its church. The second main draw is the black sand beach below it. But the other attraction is the waterfall behind the village (and behind where I am standing here) as well as the footpath that goes up and over the mountains to the village of Tjørnuvík on the other side. Hiking in the Faroe Islands is something else, and I will talk about it more in a future post. For today it is enough to share that I spent most of my time in Saksun on this path, going far up the side of the mountains and enjoying the view of the valley below. I made this image of Saksun either on the way up or down, I remember not which it was and love how it shows both how small these communities are as well as the landscape they sit within.

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A setting looking to the southwest with a view looking to a nearby mountainside and then to a more distant peak. This is at a roadside pullout in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest.

While at a rest area pullout along I-40 as I headed west on my drive to Joshua Tree National Park. The view is looking to the north-northwest to the New York Mountains. Using the peakbagger site, I was able to identify a few of the peaks, but Table Top was the most identifiable one and in the image center. My thought on composing this image was to zoom in to this one section of the mountain range and center it while keeping my Nikon SLR camera more or less leveled-on. The idea would be to have the sage brush another plant-life heading off to the horizon, and the blue skies and clouds above to balance that.

While at a roadside pullout along the Everitt Memorial Highway in Shasta-Trinity National Forest, I was able to enjoy a panoramic view to the northeast. The view was quite breathtaking, with Mount Shasta dominating the setting from an open area amidst towering evergreens that lined the road. In composing this image, I zoomed in with the focal length so that more of the mountainside would fill the image from edge to edge and bring out more of a sense of grandeur.

While standing at a roadside pullout and overlook along the Blue Mesa Scenic Drive and looking to the east across badlands and eroded formations. What I wanted to capture with this image was two things: one was the shapes present in the badlands to my front. Another was kind of like a layering but not just to the landscape, but also in the badlands themselves. In one way, a person could look across the history of this part of the planet with the different eons of time layering one upon the other with the different minerals and elements present. I felt that angling my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward helped to create a sweeping view across this landscape. But I also wanted to keep a little bit of the blue skies above as a color complement to the earth-tones present in the lower portion of the image. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 4 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

At a roadside pullout exhibit for Castolon Peak with a view looking to the north towards eroded, volcanic remnants present in this part of Big Bend National Park. My thinking in composing this image was to capture this peak in the way it's seemingly jutted into the blue skies above. I wanted to capture some nearby foreground to add some depth and perspective for this setting. When I later looked at the image while post-processing it, it reminded me of an image I'd seen in an aliens type movie, but can't quite put the name to it.

At a roadside pullout along Utah Scenic Byway 12, just outside the Red Canyon area of Dixie National Forest. The view is looking to the northeast towards a hillside that had eroded formations and hoodoos coming off the main ridge. I liked how the blue skies were the backdrop and color contrast to complement the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image.

It Is Commented How Life Can Imitate Art

But there are some times when life can look like an art painting

A snowy landscape amongst the Joshua Trees

It is almost a surreal feeling

That the eyes just have to tell the mind

That is really exists and wasn't painted

I hope others experience a nature painting seen with the eyes

And have that chance to stand in awe

of the creation all around that we see in life.

Another work of short poetry or prose to complement the image captured one morning in Joshua Tree National Park during a snowstorm. This is at a roadside pullout along the main park road around the Ryan Campground area. The setting is looking to the east across a the mountain desert landscape present with sage brush, creosote bushes, and Joshua Trees seemingly all covered with snow (with more snow falling!). The painting idea came from the look with the snow and an almost surreal look with the many typical desert colors muted or covered in that whiteness.

I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 6 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

Shore Acres State Park, Coos Bay, Oregon.

Cape Arago Light is the the least accessible of the Oregon lighthouses and it's no longer operational. The lighthouse is on private land and may be viewed at a distance from a pullout on Cape Arago road. I was happy to catch the rainbow when I arrived in late afternoon at this location. Thanks for visiting and your comments!