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  • 32 - Tracks<br />
Nature is fascinating in many ways. This is one in a series of abstract images found in nature by Emmy-award winning photographer Mark Andrews. Based in the Mojave desert of the American southwest, he is constantly surprised at the infinite variations in sandstone formations.
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  • 34 - Current<br />
Nature is fascinating in many ways. This is one in a series of abstract images found in nature by Emmy-award winning photographer Mark Andrews. Based in the Mojave desert of the American southwest, he is constantly surprised at the infinite variations in sandstone formations.
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  • 35 - The Sign<br />
Nature is fascinating in many ways. This is one in a series of abstract images found in nature by Emmy-award winning photographer Mark Andrews. Based in the Mojave desert of the American southwest, he is constantly surprised at the infinite variations in sandstone formations.
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  • 34 - Factor<br />
Nature is fascinating in many ways. This is one in a series of abstract images found in nature by Emmy-award winning photographer Mark Andrews. Based in the Mojave desert of the American southwest, he is constantly surprised at the infinite variations in sandstone formations.
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  • Rich color fills the sky over central Nevada at sunset. This view from nearly 10,000 feet shows distant peaks and ranges with a visual distance of over 60 miles of open country. Traveling and camping in this kind of territory restores the soul and brings personal peace. 2nd Annual Great Nevada Exploratory Photographic Expedition - 2014
    Summit Mountain sunset, central Nevada
  • Clear water and shady cover dresses Lamoille Creek, near where it exits one of the most beautiful canyons in north America. Bright greens and the beginning of fall's favorite color - yellow - covers the cottonwoods bending over the bend in the creek.
    Lamoille Creek, northern Nevada
  • Literally 30 seconds after making this exposure, lightning stuck where my tripod had stood. When the monsoonal flows come to the Mojave desert in southern Nevada, storms like this spring up frequently and with little warning. This image (a single exposure) displayed all the mighty power that nature can bring, with sheets of rain, multiple bolts and deafening thunder. Thirty mile-per-hour wind drove the storm directly at me while I set up my gear and tested the exposure, then began making exposures to capture the action. Never underestimate the power of nature . . . and always be prepared.
    Power From on High
  • Like a prayer whispered in secret, the Milky Way seems to ascend into the heavens above the outreached arms of slender aspen trees in autumn. Great Basin National Park is a wonderful place to seek God and nature. Located so remotely from cities and towns that it is one of the best places in the lower 48 states. Clear skies and cool nights allow for excellent views into the heavens.
    A Whispered Prayer, Wheeler Peak, Nevada
  • Storms in the western desert arise in an instant, with furious wind and rain in cloudbursts. And so often, especially at sunset, the storm will break. A narrow window of light will appear at the desert horizon between heaven and earth. This rainbow appeared at a perfect moment in time, offering redemption from danger and fear, bringing instead, peace and hope.
    Redemption, Cedar Breaks NM
  • Peace in Kolob<br />
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This image of a wheat field in mid-spring on the Kolob Plateau of southern Utah was made on legacy 4x5 color transparency film. Imagine the sense of peace at sunset when not a breath of wind stirred the delicate stalks. Meanwhile the camera shutter whirred away at f/64 for 3 seconds - I love that sound. To a large format photographer, having worked at setting up a folding wooden field camera, reading a light meter, making all the adjustments while viewing the image upside down and backwards on ground glass, that whirring shutter sound itself is the satisfying reward for all the labor and patience. Digital is the new king, but oh how sweet the days of film were when rich colors of a scene like this could be found and created on 4-inch by 5-inch film masters.
    Peace in Kolob
  • Here’s a cocky little fellow in the Mojave desert of  Clark County, Nevada perched atop a Mojave yucca. He always leads the way with Mrs. Quail and the kids following, sometimes running ahead and finding an elevated lookout so he scout for food and water. When he finds it, he throws his head back to clear his throat and closes his eyes and let’s loose.
    Gambel's quail calling the flock
  • There's something wistful about aspens that are just a day past peak color. Clustered on the high slopes of Timber Creek, these aspens flare in brief glory before the winds of winter. This steep and beautiful side canyon affords solitude and rejuvenation to a camera-carrying traveler. The Schell Creek Mountain Range is home to a large and rambling spruce, fir, and aspen forest. This is a great place to escape to for urban refugees. Call on your Boy Scout training if you go: water, fuel, spare tires, food, good boots and a warm woolen blanket. And a sharp pocket knife.
    Timber Canyon, Success Loop, White P...jpg
  • Wild and free and the perfect symbol of life in the Nevada rangelands. Given enough free browse and open water, mustangs prosper. When their range is limited, they suffer just like any other animal in the wild. There are conflicting opinions of how to best manage Nevada’s wild mustang herds. But to see a gang of them running free through the sage with flying manes and tails, with a powerful stallion at the lead is a genuine thrill.
    Wild mustangs, White Pine county
  • Free at last, White Pine county fascinating geology of the desert range.<br />
This beautiful animal stands confident and strong in the sage covered western desert of White Pine County, Nevada. Not a mustang, this palomino is likely a survivor of the Great Recession of the early 2000s, set free by a rancher fallen on hard times. Given enough reliable browse and water, life in the wild is a good life.
    Free at last, White Pine county
  • Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park contains a town built in the 1890s that is preserved in a state of arrested decay. A true Nevada ghost town, many of Berlin’s original buildings remain and some of its original residents are interred in the town’s cemetery. Trails throughout the town site tell the story of Berlin and its mine. The park is also home to the most abundant concentration, and largest known remains, of Ichthyosaurs, an ancient marine reptile that swam in a warm ocean that covered central Nevada 225 million years ago. The fossils are protected and displayed at the park’s Fossil House. For nostalgic reasons, this ranger station just totally appeals to me, with open range before it and the US and Nevada flags flying together in the desert breeze.
    Berlin, Nevada
  • Mule deer are marvelous creatures. This one, feeding in a marshy meadow at dawn in northern Nevada, is carrying a baby soon to be born. Wild irises bloom in the background; sage in the front.
    Mule deer doe, Great Basin, Nevada
  • This may be the last fine art landscape photograph of beautiful Lamoille Canyon's famous aspen forests. (See addendum below).<br />
    Gouged out by ancient glaciers, Lamoille Canyon in the Ruby Mountains is a gem. Streams altered by beaver ponds and year-round water freshen the landscape and welcome hikers and hunters. Vigorous aspen and cottonwoods offer rich color in the fall. The peaks are all well above 10,000 feet and inspire positivity to visitors. Elko County residents can be proud of their beautiful Rubies.<br />
    Addendum: The Range Two Fire burned in the Ruby Mountains near Elko and tore over multiple ridge lines and quickly consumed approximately 5,000 acres after starting on Sunday, September 30, 2018. The wind drove flames into Lamoille Canyon, scorching the popular recreation area from "bottom to top," according to Erica Hupp, public information officer for the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. This is indeed a sad event that will not be restored for well over 100 years.
    Lamoille Autumn
  • A rancher heads home at the end of the day in Lamoille, (Elko County) Nevada. The road runs exactly east-west; this perfectly backlit shot is best done on only two days of the year; vernal and autumnal equinox.
    Ranch road, Lamoille, Nevada
  • 'Mariposa Deco' - photographed in the Mojave desert by Mark Andrews - during the 2019 spring bloom. This small, miraculous flower grows a single slender leaf from a bulb in rough soil, and blooms with delicate lavender petals.
    Mariposa Deco (Mariposa Deco (Caloch..ily)
  • The worse the weather, the better the pictures. This photo in the field was made by Steve Roberts in December 2008. Same day as the two snow images of Zion in this collection. We had the park to ourselves all day, making first tracks anywhere we went. Absolute best day ever at ZNP.
    at Zion
  • You can see here how the gallery selections are presented, in black aluminum frames with black and white mattes. The pastel-treated prints are on torn Moab Entrada fiber paper with the edges exposed and they are hand signed and chopped with the Mark of Photopelli. Regular glass, sized 28" x 32." This image by Paul Bean on opening night at the gallery reception.
    at Sahara West library 4 Nov 2010
  • Rattlesnake canyon, Arizona
  • Native American culture and history is filled with mystery and spirits, and in the western deserts it's easy to make visual connections with nature and spiritual thoughts through photographic imagery. Sometimes, spiritual renewal comes from the combination of natural miracles of the creation heightened by the effort required to find it. After three days of living in the desert during winter (with all of the attendant privations of discomfort and fatigue), I came upon this location while searching for something else. The eye is drawn to the point of greatest contrast on the brightly lit bluffs in the distance, but the real discovery is much closer. Being alone and unhurried allows for discernment and contemplation, and allows for a much richer experience.
    Eagle Spirit Rock
  • The sandstone wilderness of the southwestern deserts makes a perfect destination for a wandering photographer. Ancient sand dunes, frozen in time time now rise in sloping forms of distinctive shape, line and texture. Both physically challenging and mentally renewing at the same time, isolation allows one to focus and recharge the creative powers.
    Sandstone Nation
  • Dune Idaho
  • Zion shedding winter
  • Kanarraville, Utah town water supply
  • Way Way West
  • Slot canyon alcove
  • White pockets 1
  • Generations - Coastal Redwoods
  • Some of the best views of the Grand Canyon may be had on the north rim, where there are fewer people, less constructed development and more solitude. When changing weather flows through, clouds and broken light join forces for great image-making in color and composition in the sky. If you're looking to change your outlook on life, change your view of the world. I spent all day at this location before making this image. Even having no hope of a great sunset during the day, I stayed for hours wandering among ponderosa groves, photographing tiny ground blossoms with a macro lens, snoozing, snacking and sitting in the shade. At end of day, God's light moved to the edge of the horizon and revealed a beautiful moment to seal the day.
    Where Earth Meets Heaven
  • Cape Royal, North Rim, GCNP
  • Vista Encantada GCNP
  • Patience
  • Where the Wind Lies Down
  • Zion Sunrise
  • Great White Throne
  • Steadfast
  • Mojave sunset rainbow
  • Layers of richly colored sky and mountain ranges are a literal symbol of the desert in the American West. This Spring Mountain sunset glows with last light at sundown in the image made during the visit of the comet NEOWISE in 2020.
    Spring Mountain Sunset
  • Out of the Earth
  • Lava Tube in Mojave Desert
  • Renewal in the Desert
    Renewal of the Spirit
  • Emerging Zion
  • South of Area 51, north of Beatty, east of the border, and one toke over the line. But I'm not going to try it, either.
    They can't stop us all
  • Saving Autumn
  • No words other than: 'All the glory to God.'
    God's Promise at Red Rock - Out of t..torm
  • Josh be chillin'
  • Last Light in Death Valley
  • Believe in the Light
    Believe in the Light
  • This view of Watchman Peak and the Virgin River is a classic western image. Along with a million other photographers, I have stopped on the bridge in the middle of Zion National Park on every trip I've ever made through the canyon. This one is my personal favorite. Made in deepest, darkest January, the inclination of the sun is low and far to the south, illuminating the ridge with mellow sunset and warming the distant Eagle Crags with a surrounding cape of snow.
    The Virgin and the Watchman
  • Salad Canyon
  • Runner and ice. Racetrack, Death Val..rnia
  • With the Sheep Range far in the distance, sunlight on fresh snow highlights this Joshua tree forest in the Spring Mountain Range.
    Joshua Forest in the Spring Mountain..ange
  • Virgin River sunset, Gold Butte Territory<br />
Historic and beautiful Gold Butte is bounded on the west by the Virgin River, slowly meandering through the Mormon Mesa in northern Clark County. Water is the lifeblood of the western desert and in this image, that flowing life reflects a brilliant sunset in the spring of the year. Home to desert tortoises, coyote, quail, road runners, petroglyphs and the elusive but well-adapted Bundy cattle herd, miners, hunters, hikers and photographers now freely roam the fascinating geology of the desert range.
    Virgin River sunset, Gold Butte Terr..tory
  • Dunegrass circle, Kelso, California
  • Winter's Gold
  • This graceful small waterfall adds a point of interest below the opening of the Narrows of the Virgin River in Zion National Park. Named for Gary Edward Adams, it is a location that he frequently photographed in large format black and white film during the 1980-90's. He was a master of his chosen art.
    Gary's Waterfall, Zion NP, Utah
  • Wall of Solitude, Canyon de Chelley
  • Teton Afternoon
  • Aspens - Sunrise on Webster Flat
  • White Pockets
  • Sierran shootingstar, (Dodecatheon j..ains
  • Aspens, Rain at Hamilton Meadow, Utah
  • Dragon's Spine
  • Sacred Datura
  • Discovery - the Gateway
  • Erupción Interrumpido
  • Peace Found
  • Aspens and Spruce, Southern Utah.jpg
  • Into the Clearing
  • Impressions of Autumn, Aspen at Kent..Lake
  • Aspen, Merchant Valley, Utah
  • Elk, Sevier County, Utah
  • House Finch, yellow variant due to diet
  • The Wind Dial
  • White Pockets
  • Autumn Aspen, Utah; at altitude
  • The Pinnacle
  • Peace Renewed
  • A sweep of nature's arm
  • Yin's fountain
  • Beavertail cactus
  • Steller's Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri)
  • Valley of Fire 7
  • Valley of Fire 6
  • Valley of Fire 3
  • Cereus 5
  • Cholla 1
  • Cereus cactus bloom
    Cereus 3
  • A frozen sea of sandstone
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  • Desert shrimp (Lepidurus apus)
  • A struggle over dinner
  • Nighthawk chick, defensive pose
  • Mud, Glorious Mud 11
  • Channel Construct 1
  • Channeling Las Vegas
  • Ann Road Basin
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