Learning through the lens
Forty photographs, from Miami storms and desert experiments to the people who make the ride.
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07LOOK A LITTLE CLOSER
Look closely.
Then check.
Photography, geology and fieldwork, and a ring-shaped feature on the seafloor off Miami that I have been trying to explain since 2012.
Darkroom, desert, museum, seafloor.
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Places to startPhotography / Minerals / Research
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for surprise.
I have carried a camera into the desert, spent a summer excavating and surveying near Farmington, cataloged specimens at a mineral museum and spent more than a decade on one stubborn question about the seafloor.
Small worlds in stone
I photograph specimens closely enough for their structure, surface and color to become small landscapes, and I keep the specimen's name, locality and owner attached.
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The Miami structure
In 2012, a circular pattern in NOAA bathymetry off Miami caught my attention. I have kept testing an impact hypothesis against other explanations, and it remains a hypothesis. A 2020 field study attributed the feature to dissolving rock.
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Archaeology fieldwork
A summer in the field near Farmington.
With a San Juan College field school, I spent a summer surveying and excavating on B-Square Ranch, first at a small homesite and kiva, then at a Great House site.
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New Mexico / August 2010
Looking north across Jornada del Muerto.
When I lived in Socorro, I spent a lot of time in the remote country around it. I liked places where the distance to the next person became part of the experience.
The ground around Jornada del Muerto Volcano is so flat that a clear vantage point takes some searching. I found one and made this photograph looking north across the plain on August 1, 2010. It later found another life on Wikimedia Commons.
Explore archivePhotography, specimens, fieldwork and research
Out in the field.
Back at the workbench.
A field school near Farmington, a museum collection in Socorro, a disputed feature off Miami and a long-running fascination with light.
A summer in the fieldWith a San Juan College field school, I spent a summer surveying and excavating on B-Square Ranch, first at a small homesite and kiva, then at a Great House site.Following the lightHelium-neon tubes as a kid, salvaged laser diodes later, then cameras, festival light shows and a little professional experience with thermal imaging.
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More photographs on the Riding page, and the family stories on Personal.
Family and life in Miami
Dad, the El Camino and life in Miami.
Rides, events and photographs
Event photography, shared rides and the projects that grew around them.
Things I have built
Business tools, image software and games.
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I'm always glad to compare notes on photography, minerals, field research or a question that refuses an easy answer.
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