Photos from this month’s retro photo album titled: Chaco and Bandelier, May 23, 2007. One of the most remarkable aspects of Chaco Culture is the extensive system of finely engineered roads both within the canyon and extending out a considerable distance to the outlying sites throughout the San Juan Basin and beyond. These roads are remarkablyContinue reading “All Roads Lead to Chaco”
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Chaco Canyon
Photos from this month’s retro photo album titled: Chaco and Bandelier, May 23, 2007. Between AD 900 and 1150, Chaco Canyon was a major center of culture for the Ancestral Puebloans. Chacoans quarried sandstone blocks and hauled timber from great distances, assembling fifteen major complexes that remained the largest buildings ever built in North America untilContinue reading “Chaco Canyon”
Visions of New Mexico
Photos from this month’s retro photo album titled: Chaco and Bandelier, May 23, 2007. Here are two landscape shots processed in Color, B&W, and Sepia. I see something different in all of them. I think the B&Ws bring out the shadows best, making the clouds look heavy. My books Memory Road Trip (e-book or paperback) and Time Traveled (e-book or paperback) are both available!Continue reading “Visions of New Mexico”
The Mayan World
Images from this month’s retro photo album called Cancun, Jan 11 – Feb 15, 2007. El Caracol, the Observatory, is a unique structure at pre-Columbian Maya civilization site of Chichen Itza. El Caracol, which means ‘snail’ in Spanish, is so named due to the spiral staircase inside the tower: The Mesoamerican ballgame was a sport with ritual associationsContinue reading “The Mayan World”
Chichen Itza
Here is an excerpt from my chapter about Chichen Itza from Time Traveled: Chichen Itza rose to power several hundred years earlier than Tulum, and it, too, owed its existence to the presence of water. However, unlike Tulum, Chichen Itza sat nowhere near a beach but instead resided inland between two large cenotes. We currentlyContinue reading “Chichen Itza”
Cancun
This month’s retro photo album is called “Cancun, Jan 11 – Feb 15, 2007.” I used a terrible point-and-shoot camera back then and the pictures are of rather low quality, but I like looking back and seeing what I was trying to capture. I am fascinated by archaeological ruins. I love imagining what life must have beenContinue reading “Cancun”
Goldfield, AZ
This video makes the place look super cheesy, which it is, but it’s admittedly a really a fun place to visit: There’s genuine history to be found here, and the photo opportunities are endless. Photos from this month’s retro photo album titled: Goldfield Feb 14, 2007—back when I went through a heavy sepia phase. I’m notContinue reading “Goldfield, AZ”
Western Horses
“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” -John Muir Photos from this month’s retro photo album titled: Goldfield Feb 14, 2007. My books Memory Road Trip (e-book or paperback) and Time Traveled (e-book or paperback) are both available! You can also find them at most major international book sites.
Goldfield Ghost Town
This month’s retro photo album is titled: Goldfield Feb 14, 2007. Located at the foot of the Superstition Mountains, Goldfield was a boom-and-bust town built on the riches of the Mammoth Mine. The gold vein soon played out, and the city lasted only five years, from 1893 to 1898. The buildings standing there today are allContinue reading “Goldfield Ghost Town”
Our First Trip Together
Selections from this month’s retro photo album titled: Malibu Nov 7, 2006. Malibu was our first trip together. I knew Ryan for all of one month when I took this photo of him: He, in turn, took this photo of me: I’m generally camera-shy and rarely pose for pictures. I feel way more comfortable being behindContinue reading “Our First Trip Together”
