Photo Gallery

Allegheny Winterscapes

Here's a collection of photos I've taken over the years of winter scenes from Warren County.

Climbers on the ice cliffs near
the Kinzua Dam, circa 1996.

On the Morrison Trail, Allegheny National Forest

Twilight for the Dead

Sunset at Oakland Cemetery, Warren, Pennsylvania, circa 2001

Glenwood Springs, CO, and Moab, Utah, May, 2006

Hot Mineral Springs, Massive Red Sandstone Formations

There was hydrotherapy in the two mineral pools, and a Swedish massage, at Glenwood Springs, Colorado. This photo is a stock pix from the Internet.

We toured Arches National Park just outside Moab, Utah to see its famed buttes and mesas. Also nearby is Canyonlands National Park

I named the three formations in this photo as:"Broken Tooth Butte."

Travelers' Three
My sister Nancy and her husband Bob Turley, left to right in photo, organized the entire trip. Here we are the Travelers Three enjoying some Louisana cooking in Glenwood Springs.

Name that Rock!

Almost every formation in Arches National Park has an "offical" name. But I think it's more fun to study the rock and find a shape or image of your own to name it.

I call this one,"Frog's Tongue"

Interactive Photo
It's your turn to name the rock.

When you're ready with a name,just scroll down to the end of this post and click on the word "Comments"

The Keyhole

There and many exmples of "window rocks"in Arches. Native Americans believe window rocks are passage ways to a Spirit World and can reveal mysteries to those who take a spiritual journey called a Vision Quest

Does The Keyhole unlock mysteries?

Plants, bushes and shrubs

We were lucky to be touring Arches in early May, almost prime for "desert bloom," a time of full flower and color. Some of these desert plants, like the Creeping Cacuts", top photo, produce flowers once every five years. The plant in the photo at right is Yellow Spikeweed.

Images from the Past

This petroglyph depicts native hunters chasing down a herd of antelope.

Annie Leibovitz Tribute

Annie is one of my favorite photographers. Here is a small sampling of her work. If you want more do an Internet search using her name.

Annie Leibovitz, 56, American photographer, known for her portraits of celebrities, who range from political figures to musicians and athletes.

Her work has included magazine, fashion, and advertising photography. Many of Leibovitz's portraits of rock music celebrities have become signature images.

A notable example is her portrait of the nude John Lennon on a bed with his fully clothed wife, Yoko Ono, the last portrait of Lennon before his death in 1980.

Born in Westport, Connecticut, Leibovitz received a bachelor of fine arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1971. She subsequently continued her studies with photographer Ralph Gibson.

In 1969 she lived on a kibbutz in Israel and participated in an archaeological dig at the site of King Solomon's temple. From 1970 to 1983 she was a freelance photographer and the chief photographer for Rolling Stone magazine, and in 1975 she served as a concert-tour photographer for The Rolling Stones band.

She has been a contributing photographer for Vanity Fair magazine since 1983, and in the early 1990s she founded the Annie Leibovitz Studio in New York City.

Like photographer Arnold Leibovitz has contrived in her work to emphasize some aspect of each subject's public persona. Using the whole of the subject's body, typically captured in the midst of physical action, Leibovitz achieves her effects without apparent artificiality and with a flair—often outrageous—that sets her work apart from that of other portrait artists.

Leibovitz's advertising work, to which she brings a similar freshness and drama, has attracted many important clients.

Three of Leibovitz's exhibitions have toured the United States and Europe. Two were organized by the Sidney Janis Gallery (1983-1985 and 1986-1989), and the National Portrait Gallery (Washington, D.C.) honored her in 1991 with a retrospective that subsequently toured the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Her awards include the American Society of Magazine Photographers (ASMP) Photographer of the Year Award (1984); the ASMP Innovation in Photography Award (1987); the Clio Award and the Campaign of the Decade Award from Advertising Age magazine (1987); and the Infinity Award for applied photography from the International Center for Photography (1990).