"Disappearing Endeavor," March 2008

Disappearing Endeavor

I've posted this photo before, but considering that I've let this blog slide a bit of late (a little over a month, sadly), I thought it was worth reposting the image now that it was selected for a New York Times gallery of reader-submitted photos. It's only 12 images of shuttle launches -- no contest or prize or anything -- but cool nonetheless. Not bad for my one and only launch and a less-than-ideal viewing point and low cloud cover. Not my best night shot, either, but considering the timing, I'm happy to include it.

"Juniper light at Arches," Utah, March 2010

Juniper light

This became one of my favorite photos from out weeklong trip through northern Arizona and southeastern Utah. It was the end of a long day of hiking at Arches and we hoped to get one more loop in, out at the end of the park road near the big campground, hiking to Broken Arch and back to the car. But as we made our way along the path, we found ourselves alternating between dense sand and snow drifts up to our shins, even our knees. We grew tired quickly and decided to double back to the car, rather than finish the circuit.

But at least it got me this shot of the late-afternoon sunlight on the arches in the distance and the top of the tree in the foreground. If only I could drop everything now and go back out there ...

"Alone at Bass Harbor," Maine, May 2009

Alone at Bass Harbor

So many great places along the Maine coast, it's hard to decide which one -- or which locale -- to use. But Bass Harbor lighthouse is a gorgeous, remote, quiet spot I look forward to visiting whenever I'm on Mount Desert Island.

"Fisherman at sunset, Great Point," Nantucket, June 1991

Fisherman at sunset, Great Point

This was one of my longtime favorite images from my earliest days playing around with a camera. It's just one of those shots where you're looking at one thing -- the sunset over the water -- and it's an OK photo. But then you get that one element that makes it a better photo -- in this case, the fisherman silhouetted in the sunset.

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Looking out my back door

I love those moments when you look up from what you're doing and see a moment worthy of a photograph, and that's what I got when I looked out the back to see the lowering sun shining on and through the leaves -- some of which have just started their autumn changeover.

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Blue hour above the Rubin

Walking along 17th Street, I looked up and this caught my eye.

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Reflective Manhattan

I caught the late afternoon light on a West Side high-rise next to Frank Gehry's IAC Building.

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The ultimate Pittsburgh pennant

An original flag from Shea Stadium, flown back in the days when they used to fly the NL cities atop the ballpark. It's so large, this is really the only wall -- at least the only undecorated one -- in the house big enough on which to display it.

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Big piggy bank

As autumn draws closer, the sun sinks lower by the time I'm heading into work, so the photos opportunities are getting better.

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Stop, light

It's September. The days are growing shorter, so when I head to work in the afternoons now, the light is more golden and causes the buildings and other objects to cast longer shadows. While walking the High Line to work, I caught the sun illuminating this signpost in the Meatpacking District.

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Summer sunrise with the Moon and Venus

Coming home at 5:30 a.m., I got to gaze up at the pairing of the Moon and Venus in the lightening dawn sky, but didn't get to an open (and dark) enough space to spot the International Space Station as it moved across the sky.

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Friday afternoon in the universe

Quite the light on all the iron as we pull into the terminal.

"Nepenthe patio, Big Sur, California," September 2005

Nepenthe patio, Big Sur, California

I can't look at any of my photos from this evening at Nepenthe in Big Sur without immediately going back there. I feel the same enlightenment in my chest, the same peace in my soul, the same joy in my mind as we sat on the deck in the early evening just killing time. As the sun sank into the Pacific, the light only got better, growing more golden, drawing the sky in a deeper blue and turning the trees more and more into shadows and producing some great images.

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Guys make fire

The rain let up enough and the tree cover blocked out more, allowing us to build a fire for our first night in the woods.

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Left alone

Parked outside Chelsea Market at 4 a.m.

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The most amazing cloud I've ever seen

After we drove through the storm in western Pennsylvania, the skies cleared over Ohio and as we rounded a bend on I-80, this massive cumulus hovered above us.

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She's real fine

I'm sure I could find out how many different addresses the series of interconnected buildings of Chelsea Market have, but I'm a bit lazy at the moment.

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Late afternoon

The late-afternoon sun casts a shadow on our back yard gate.

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Hopper lighting

Windows jutting out of rooftops like this always remind me of Edward Hopper paintings, and this late-afternoon light clinched it for me. I'd already taken one photo that I thought would be this day's image, but then I turned the corner and saw this.

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Eastside Cemetery

The weather cleared! We walked from our hotel near the Portland waterfront to Munjoy Hill and the Portland Observatory. On the way, we passed Portland's oldest cemetery, Eastside, and I took this shot through the iron bars of the fence. The clouds helped.