Daily Photo – Threshing About

January 13, 2016
Travel

A man feeds rice into a threshing machine to separate the grains from the stalks in a rice paddy off the Li River near Guilin, in China.

I took today's photo, Threshing About, from a boat, steaming down the Li River in China. I'm not sure who had the harder job as the stalks of rice were…

Daily Photo – Breezy Day

January 12, 2016
Travel

The wind picks up the sand on a breezy day, blotting out the view beyond the drill buggy and vibrator at our camp in the Calanscio sand sea.

I look at images such as today's photo of a breezy day taken in 1990 or 1991 with bitter sweet feelings. Breezy days, where the wind would pick up the…

Daily Photo – Stovepipe Wells Sand Dunes

January 11, 2016
Landscape

Looking east from atop a sand dune at Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley National Park.

The Stovepipe Wells sand dunes are a well known feature and every photographer in the valley stops there sooner or later. Most photographers trek out there in the darkness to…

Daily Photo – Upper Titus Canyon

January 10, 2016
Landscape

The upper reaches of Titus Canyon, Death Valley National Park.

Titus Canyon Road is a one-way drive for most of it's length. You can drive from the valley to where the canyon exits but then you have to hike into…

Daily Photo – Folded Rocks at the Entrance to Titus Canyon

January 9, 2016
Landscape

Folded Rocks at the entrance to Titus Canyon, Death Valley National Park. Thi is the finest example of folded rocks I've ever seen!

If you drive the Titus Canyon Road in Death Valley National Park, about a quarter mile after you pass through the remains of Leadfield you get to the upper entrance…

Daily Photo – Leathercraft of Marlborough

January 7, 2016
Travel

Old Hughendon Yard at 106-107 High Street, Marlborough, UK.

There are lots of 'Marlboroughs' around the world. This one is in Wiltshire, England, where I went to school. RC & J Upton Leathercraft of Marlborough sits in an alleyway…