In May of this year I drove a motor home from Forest City, Iowa to Anchorage, Alaska. I spent 18 days driving through the northern United States, British Columbia, Alberta, the Yukon Territory and Alaska. It was a privilege to drive by some of the most spectacular mountain ranges, rivers and waterfalls on the planet. This formation is sedimentary, primarily shale and limestone. It is near Banff, a town site and the headquarters of the Banff National Park in Alberta.
July, 2011
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Canada and Alaska 2011–The Banff Formation
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Graffiti Fence
Whether graffiti is art or not is a controversial question. Like it or not, occasionally graffiti brightens what otherwise would be a community eyesore. This is a fence screening an industrial junkyard in Fresno, California. It contrasted nicely with the dramatic skies in the background.
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Mingle Warehouse
The Fresno Brewing Company and Warehouse, also known as the Mingle Warehouse is on the National Register of Historic Places. Its period of significance to commerce was between 1900 and 1924. Today it is one of many warehouses and industrial buildings just south of downtown Fresno. Many of the buildings are closed, abandoned or neglected.
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Fresno, California
Here are a few images that are a departure from my usual Landscape work. Fresno is the fifth largest city in California and is the center of the great agricultural valley, the San Joaquin. Highway 99 north entered Fresno through the Van Ness Avenue Arch. It was originally a stucco and terra cotta structure built in 1917. When the new Highway 99 bypassed Fresno, the arch became a victim of neglect. It was repaired in 1980.
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Rainbows — Pastel Colors
Just a beautiful moment over the ocean. Until I looked at this shot later, I didn’t realize the colors of the rainbow were an overlay on the water itself. I had imagined the rainbow was cut off at the horizon.