The Western Escape
There was a moment when I wanted to call this gallery The Western Landscape.
But as I thought about my relationship to the region — to these pictures — I realized that while my camera may have captured landscapes, what captured me was something different. It wasn’t the landscape so much as e-scape. Let’s call it The Western Escape.
Growing up in New England, my adult life spent in New York City and Washington, D.C., once I began devoting an increasing number of months each year Out West, I unconsciously began viewing its sublime vistas, those wide skies, and the spaces in between its archipelago of small towns as nothing less than an escape from Back East.
So, see the photographs here as vistas captured in two dimensions by a camera held by an East Coast escapee. Road trips and landscape photography are among the joys of living in the West. They force you ever onward, up early, out late, an escape into the light.
Mather Point, Grand Canyon National Park
The Overlook, Hanksville, Utah
Cathedral in the Desert, Glen Canyon
From Muley Point, Above Mexican Hat
A view of Monument Valley.
Schwabacher's Landing, Grand Teton National Park
Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado
White House Ruin, Canyon de Chelly
The Claw, Valley of the Gods
Sunset, Dead Horse Point State Park
Mohave Point, Grand Canyon National Park
Factory Butte
Dead Horse Point State Park, Utah
Oxbow Bend (during fire season), GTNP
Monument Valley Tribal Park, Arizona
The Sleeping Indian, Bridger-Teton National Forest
Joshua Tree National Park
Snowstorm, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Mars Desert Research Center, Hanksville, Utah
50-Mile Canyon, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
Death Valley
Grand Teton National Park
Cathedral in the Desert, Glen Canyon
Teton Range
50-Mile Canyon, Glen Canyon
Moonscape Badlands, Utah
Park Avenue, Arches National Park
Fields near Felt, Idaho
From Hunts Mesa, above Monument Valley
Badlands National Park, South Dakota
The Mittens, Monument Valley Tribal Park, AZ
Dead Horse Point State Park
White Pocket, Arizona
Valley of the Gods, Utah
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah
The Overlook, Hanksville, Utah
Monument Valley National Tribal Park, Arizona
Badlands National Park, South Dakota
Grand Teton National Park
Death Valley National Park
Comet, Grand Teton National Park
Badlands National Park, South Dakota
50-Mile Canyon
Death Valley National Park
Fields near Felt, Idaho
Saguaro National Park, Arizona
Zion National Park
Bridger-Teton National Forest
White Pocket, Arizona
Along the Gros Ventre River, Wyoming
Shiprock, Navajo Nation
Fields of Eastern Idaho
Monument Valley, from Hunt's Mesa
The Overlook, Utah
50-Mile Canyon
White Pocket, Arizona
Grand Teton National Park
Big Bend National Park, Texas
White Sands National Park, New Mexico
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
Bentonite Hills, Caineville, Utah
The Sleeping Indian, Wyoming