Marathon 1. Marathon, TX (2021).

Marathon 1. Marathon, TX (2021).

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Marathon 1. Marathon, TX (2021).

“A Terrain That Doesn't Care (2013-2025)” is a retired biologist’s observations of the North American West of the 21st century. It is a photographic odyssey around the region, exploring our collective attitudes...

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Old Hidalgo Pump House 1. Hidalgo, TX (2025). Tools for diverting a river, tools for...

Kelso 10. Mojave National Preserve, CA (2019).

Doorman. El Paso, TX (2019). I met the doorman at a historic downtown theater who...

Sedona 11. Sedona, AZ. September 14, 2019. Dense smoke from the nearby Whiskey Fire blankets...

Badlands National Park, SD (2017).

“In the West, nothing done by Americans is for keeps, everything – farms, cities, towns, mines, everything – constitutes a brief raid on the dry land and then becomes tumbleweed, ghost towns,...

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Border Road. Portillo, NM (2021).

Mescalero 1. Mescalero, NM (2023).This place sits by the roadside within the Mescalero Apache reservation...

Mescalero 8. Mescalero, NM (2023).

Hollywood, CA (2019).

Los Angeles, CA. (2021). I typically avoid photographs of street people because such photos can...

Apache, AZ (2019).

Bird Skins. Portal, AZ (2017). These bird “skins” are specimens from the library of the...

Piranga 2. Portal, AZ (2017). I made this set of photographs when I was still...

Hepatic Tangager. Portal, AZ (2019). One morning, right outside the library where those specimens above...

Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni). Val Marie, SK (2023). This is a “Swainson’s Hawk,” a bird...

"The itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things."-- Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire. (1968).

Icteridae. Portal, AZ (2017). These black and yellow birds are orioles and blackbirds, which are...

Prickly Pear. Big Bend National Park, TX (2023).

Dust over the Chisos. Big Bend National Park, TX (2023).

Bratt's Lake, SK (2023).

Morning Star. Elbow, SW (2023).

Dome Fire 1. Mojave National Preserve, CA (2021). Site of the ecologically destructive Cima Dome...

Dome Fire 2. Mojave National Preserve, CA (2021)

Los Angeles, CA (2021). Early morning on Hollywood Boulevard, a custodian cleans graffiti from the...

Lida, NV (2022).

...of all the tributaries that run together, which are remembered and which are obscured? Who named them and how did the naming itself do the work of conjuring power? Merely tracing the...

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Marfa, TX (2023).

Approaching Storm. Marfa, TX (2021). They even own the color of the sky. One of...

McAllen, TX (2025). The Plain Chacalaca is one of a few birds in the US...

Mexico City (2016).

Fort Worth, TX (2019).

Trona, CA (2021).

Palm Springs, CA (2019).

Morning on the Border 1. Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, AZ. (2019). The national monument...

Morning on the Border 2. Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, AZ. (2019).

Pahrump, NV. (2022). The name "Pahrump" is believed to be derived from the Southern Paiute...

"We no longer know the names of the birds here, how to speak to them by their personal names.Once we knew everything in this lush promise."-- Joy Harjo. A Map to the...

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Burrowing Owl. Pine Ridge Reservation, SD (2019).

Hoover Dam, AZ (2022). Other than the 19th century railroads and the 20th century interstate...

Animas, NM (2024).

Progreso, TX (2025).

Progreso, TX (2025).

Sedona 13. Sedona, AZ (2019). Sedona is a bustling center of New Age tourism and...

We Ran to Catch the Light. Big Bend National Park, TX (2023).March 30, 2023. High...

Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range, WY (2023).

Cardinalidae 1. Portal, AZ (2017).

Pyrrhuloxia. Falcon Heights, TX (2025). The pyrrhuloxia is sometimes known as the "Desert Cardinal." In...

Big Bend National Park, TX (2019).

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