"Desert Trails"
10" x 8" personal publication, 124 pg.
10" x 8" personal publication, 124 pg.
Select photographs from "Desert Tails", documenting trips to the American Southwest from 1981 - 2023. Photos taken with a variety of cameras, both film and digital.
“Death Valley is not a place of death, but of life – a place where one can find peace and serenity.”
Death Valley - Georgia O’Keeffe
“I don’t see the desert as barren at all — I see it as full and ripe. It doesn’t need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty.”
Sonoran Desert - Joy Harjo
“I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.”
New Mexico - Campbell Scott
“I can still remember my first experience of standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon and looking into it. It was so awesome, it took a fair amount of restraint to prevent me from jumping into it, because I was certain I could fly.”
Grand Canyon - Mark Goulston
“All at once the desert was everywhere, and I was overcome with a feeling of relief. Sand, rocks, hills — the whole landscape was tinted the same shade of orange as the sky.”
Utah - Jasmin Darznik
