"NATURE AT RISQUE, FIGHTING OUR BLASE' ATTITUDES ABOUT THE EARTH WITH SMUT" (Gallery in progress 4 images)

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Friends, I am afraid the prime locus of human motivation is actually our limbic system. Almost every media technology in the last 50 years has secretly been given a monster boost toward success by pornography. We just don't like to admit it. Google 'Fine Art photography' and within three miss-clicks in your search for the uplifting intellectual beauty you will end up with bouncing body parts and verbal expressions that would make your grandfather take notice and your grandmother breathe in sharply. 

In a effort to refocus on the INFINITELY VIRTUOUS BEAUTY of the REAL EARTH we share, I have here presented evidence that aspects of the fine art landscape can be just as HOT and SENSUOUS as any XXX website. All you need is the same smutty mind you got looking at those websites. 

No, that bump in my cheek is not a wad of Skoal.

I hope humans will somehow find the Earth more interesting than their reproductive organs. I'm not holding my breath. I'm just embarrassed (it's like drugs) we give up so much for so little.

“BEFORE HEET HARDENS DE SANGRIA ORANGA CHOCOLAT DEL HABINARO CAN BE EATEN WITH A SPOON. 

A WORD OF ADVICE MI AMIGO, BE RESPONSIBLE, DON FORGET TO WEAR YOUR LEETL RUBBER SOMBRERO WHEN JU TANGO"

"Ms. WILDHORSE KNOWS HOW 

TO SHOW YOU A GOOD TIME"

"DR. GRAY WILL SHARE SOME EXPERIENCES 

WITH US FROM HIS TIME IN THE BUSH"

"AS TIME WORE ON IN THE PENILE COLONY, 

ALPHA DOG BEGAN TO FEEL EVER MORE 

COMMODIOUS"

"GETTING TO THE OTHER SIDE" A Gallery of Bridges (in progress 3 images)

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"CROSSING THE TECCOA IN THAT HEAT 

BEFORE A RAIN" 

FANNIN COUNTY, GEORGIA

"THE L&N BROAD JUMPS THE CLINCH" 

ANDERSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE

“CHANNEL SPAN AFTERNOON” 

TOMBIGBEE RIVER, GREENE COUNTY, ALABAMA

FRANCE IN REVIEW, A gallery in progress (3 images)

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"AS THE COLOSSEUM TURNS," 

ARLES

"AUXERRE AWAITS THE TOURISTS 

ITS HAVING FOR LUNCH, 

BURGUNDY

"A TINKLE OF PERPETUALLY BLESSED WATER,” 

BARGEMAN'S SQUARE," AUXERRE, BURGUNDY

Emery County, Utah, Views into a Menagerie of an Other Worldly Landscapes. A gallery in Progress (2 images)

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"A CATALOGUE OF EARTH AGES 

BEFORE WORDS HAD MEANING"

"A PORTENT OF FAST WATER 
IN A LAND OF BARREN SHADOWS" 
SAN RAPHAEL SWELL

Factory Butte, The Great Gray Wizard of Mancos Shale Erosion, Wayne County, Utah (A gallery in Progress 7 images)

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In May of 1987 I began three month road trip in my VW camper van to do the '111th Meridian Project.' This involved photographing the corridor of land between the 110th and 112th Meridian as it crosses the US from the Canadian to the Mexican border, about 1250 miles long and 100 miles wide. I created the 111th Meridian Project to visually substantiate a very large conceptual art work which I had titled "A Gathering of Horizons." To accomplish this I would do surface and aerial photography to generate credibility for my art concept that The Planet Earth is a work of art.

The project took 5 years and to complete and left me with images and an experience of this world that changed my life forever. This blog post is about just one small facet of that life changing experience.   

Usually most of us just want to get through deserts, right? It's just a bunch of dirt, sand, mud, rocks, and emptiness that seems to go on forever. Once in a while you can just get a glimpse of the rare beauty it holds when a butte or a uplift raises up the land like a Moroccan carpet merchant. But, unfortunately, driving in a car, riding motorcycle, a bike or even walking you are limited by your height and your imagination as to what you can actually know about space you are moving through.




What could you learn if you could see it like a bird? For me Factory Butte in Wayne County, Utah was the Moroccan carpet merchant who had been hocking his wares since I first wandered through this mystical part of the west. Even when I drove out on the long mud road toward the mountain, this detail was what I could see of the carpet at land level.

                                               

"FACTORY BROADSIDE,"

The rest of these photographs are from subsequent flights over the butte and it's pediment as I was substantiating my concept thesis. I can never look at desert again without wondering what treasures I am missing. 

What a difference even a 1000 ft makes.  

"FULL FRONTAL FACTORY BUTTE"

"OF MEANDERS AND MACOS SHALE," 

FACTORY BUTTE PEDIMENT

"THE MANCOS SHALE TRANE FROM FACTORY BUTTE I"

FACTORY BUTTE PEDIMENT

"THE MANCOS SHALE TRANE FROM FACTORY BUTTE II"

FACTORY BUTTE PEDIMENT

"OF MEANDERS AND MANCOS MUD I"

FACTORY BUTTE PEDIMENT

"OF MEANDERS AND MANCOS MUD II"

FACTORY BUTTE PEDIMENT

Wayne County, Utah, Opening a window on wonder. (a gallery in progress 4 images)

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"A HIDDEN CRACK IN THE FOLD WALL," 

WAYNE COUNTY, UTAH

"THE GREAT TEXTURE PATTERN FIELD RISE INTO CAPITOL REEF," 

WATERPOCKET FOLD, WAYNE COUNTY, UTAH 

"THE GREAT CAINVILLE LAND RIBBON I,"

 WAYNE COUNTY, UTAH

"ON THE FRACTAL FRINGE OF THE 
FLORENTINE BARRENS," 

WAYNE COUNTY, UTAH

LITTLE WILDHORSE AND BELL CANYONS, EMERY COUNTY. UTAH: A gallery in progress from the Wastes of Middle Earth 6 Images

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"MOTHER EARTH IN PRIVATE PLACES I," 
LITTLE WILD HORSE CANYON

"SECRET PASSAGE TOWARD
THE BARREL TOWER HOODOO"
LITTLE WILD HORSE CANYON

"ON THE GRANDE PROMENADE,"
LITTLE WILD HORSE CANYON

"IN THE SIREN PASSAGE 

OF SANDSTONE CONFESSIONS"

LITTLE WILD HORSE CANYON

"TURN INDICATOR"

LITTLE WILD HORSE CANYON

"AN OMEN OF TWILIGHT"

                                         LITTLE WILD HORSE CANYON

“THE CANYON’S BREATH WAS LIKE THE ECHO 

FROM A CASCADE OF DISTANT WATERS”

                                          LITTLE WILD HORSE CANYON