A Holiday View

This is a somewhat rare view of Mt. San Gorgonio made on
12-25-2010. It is rarely this clear in the Inland Empire area.
Mountains always look more majestic to my eye when they
are capped with snow.

Random Frames

Sorting through photos from the last year recently, I found a few frames that slipped between the cracks. These are all photos that I like for one reason or another. The first frame is from Red Rock Canyon, Nevada. It didn’t make it into the Red Rock post. I’m not sure why.

The flowers in the photo below are unknown to me, which isn’t particularly unusual. This frame was captured near Nuevo, California.

The photo below is a view of the east side of the Mission Inn in Riverside, California. I had an apartment on this side of the Inn in the winter of 1971-1972 when I first arrived on the West Coast.

The photo below was made in Sycamore Canyon. I thought of it as a “practice” frame when I captured it, but I keep viewing it, so I suspect there’s more to it than that.

The below view is from Anza Narrows. The buildings in the middle distance are in downtown Riverside. The far ridgeline is the San Bernardino Mountains, including Mt. San Gorgonio.

Below, another view from Anza Narrows. The shadow is on Box Springs Mountain. Mt. San Gorgonio is obscured by clouds.

A night photo from my street in Riverside, California. I like the orange light from the streetlamps.

This long view is from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah.

Daylight

The images in this post are of landscape photographs made in daylight. Click on a photograph to view a larger version.

This cordillera, this chain of mountains is a view of the the San Bernardino Mountains from an overlook near Rim of the World.

This photo and the following one were taken from the Ghost Rocks scenic viewpoint on Interstate 70 in western Utah. I was riding my motorcycle, an '06 Road Star from Southern California to Long Island. I didn't take the time to stop and make many photos on that trip, but the desert landscape in that area was so appealing that I had to make an exception.

This photo was made on one of my morning hikes on Mount Rubidoux in Riverside, California. This western view is toward the cities of Corona and Norco.

This is a view toward the north in Kansas. I was riding back home from New York on a secondary road and took a break at the intersection of this dirt road. I liked the way that the dirt road dissappeared at the horizon under the layer of clouds that echoed the flatness of the land.

This is a view to the east on Lone Pine Canyon Road. The road winds up Lone Pine Canyon from Cajon in the east, and ends in the back streets of the mountain town of Wrightwood.

This is a view to the east from a rest stop on I-80 in Nebraska. The clouds foreshadowed a rainstorm that I rode into a half hour later. The rainstorm lasted the better part of three days, long enough for me to begin thinking that I would have been better equipped for travel with a canoe.

A group of clouds overflying the San Bernardino Mountains. In the center of the photo is a shadowy hint of Mount San Jacinto, approximately 40 miles away.

I made this photo "from the saddle" while riding around the "back" side of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. There was a slow, tight left turn at this point in the road. With automobiles rounding the curve in front and behind me, I raised the camera, pointed it in the direction I thought might be right and pressed the shutter while keeping my eyes on the road (and automobile) ahead.

Note that George Washington's profile can be seen in the center of the photo.

This is another view to the west toward Corona from Mount Rubidoux. That's the Santa Ana River which snakes its way down to Orange County, and eventually, the Pacific Ocean.

Mist rises from the water in the Santa Ana River. Again, from Mount Rubidoux.

Dawn. View east from Riverside toward Mount San Gorgonio in the San Bernardino Mountains.

Shoulders of multiple ridges in the San Bernardinos plunge into a canyon.

"God light" in reverse. Light streams upward from a cloud bank. View from my front yard.

This is the Amboy Crater near Amboy, California. This volcanic cone is surrounded by black lava flows and is a roadside attraction. The tan areas on the lava are windblown sand. The volcano was last active approximately 10 million years ago.

Wyoming. From a secondary road. I was riding south toward Colorado, away from a rainstorm that was supposed to inundate northern Wyoming and South Dakota for several days. I like the way it looked with the windmill and the red aggregate of the asphalt road, so I stopped to get the photograph.