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John Meyer
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Retired wordsmith. Badlands rambler. Camera slinger. Reader of books and watcher of films. Graduate of the University of Texas and student of evolving reality, in all its triumph and tragedy. No DMs, plz.
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Upslope: Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah #wilderness, NW #NewMexico

#landscapephotography #blackandwhite #hiking #badlands #erosion #geology #backofbeyond #rockformation #hoodoos
A set of towering rock formations loom over a sloping mudstone fan in a treeless desert. A pocket of large rocks and boulders rests as if cradled by surrounding hillocks at the top of the slope at left, where a shadow line seems to encircle them. The sky is nearly featureless with a few small clouds.
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Monumental: Castleton Tower meets cloud

#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #Landscapephotography #cloud #rockformation #Utah #blackandwhite #classicmono
A sharp spire of rock reaches skyward in front of a billowing cloud, lit at the top by the setting sun. The well-defined strata of the rock stands in sharp contrast to the wispy, soft lines of the cloud mass behind.
November 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Hoodoo grotto in morning light: Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah, NW #NewMexico

#Scape #EastCoastKin #LandscapePhotography #blackandwhite #classicmono #wilderness #erosion #geology #hiking #backofbeyond #rockformation #hoodoos #monochrome #badlands
Looking down into a basin chock full of hoodoos and other weird rock formations, rendered here in stark, heavily-shadowed monochrome. The distant horizon line is barely visible at top, along with a glimpse of featureless sky. Canon 5DII, f/8 for 1/125 sec.
November 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Hillside sentinels, Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah, NW #NewMexico.
I always seem to gravitate back to the #badlands.

#wilderness #hiking #landscapephotography #erosion #hoodoos #backofbeyond #rockformation
A pair of irregularly-shaped hoodoos stand atop a low ridge of mudstone under a deep blue sky with scattered clouds. The caprocks atop these rock formations are an iron-red sandstone, with hundreds of smaller ironstone pebbles scattered on the hillside below.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Zapata Creek on #WaterfallWednesday

#waterfall #longexposure #landscapephotography #blackandwhite #sepia #classicmono #EastCoastKin
#Colorado #Canon5D
Waters of a fast-flowing stream pour over a series of rocks and cement causeways in this sepiatone image. The canyon walls appear to close as the creek rounds a bend in the background. In the foreground, water runs briskly off camera at lower left. The long 1 sec. exposure adds a bit of blur.
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Between two rocks for #RockInTuesday at Chaco

#Twosday #nationalpark #ancestralpuebloan #historical #sacredplaces #EastCoastKin #blackandwhite #classicmono
Peering out between two massive rock features toward the ruins of an ancient puebloan structure in the middle distance. Huge angular boulders are strewn about from here to there. The sky above shows numerous wispy clouds.
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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A riot of red rock for #RockInTuesday - near Fisher Towers outside Moab, UT

#EastCoastKin #sandstone #eveninglight #redrock #landscapephotography
A series of sandstone shelves climb in broad semi-circular fashion toward an upper rim composed of massive rock faces. Beyond and to the right are sheer cliffs in the distance. The sky is a featureless blue. On the lower slopes, green shrubs and bushes grow.
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Sangre de Cristo early autumn scene for #MountainMonday

#classicmono #blackandwhite #landscapephotography #mountains #aspens #colorado #eastcoastkin #meadow
A mountain meadow partly in shadow borders a line of trees, with tall aspens dominating the right border of the image. Rising up to the sky at left is the partially bare slope of a mountain, with forest fringing its upper reaches while its top is barren.
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Sunlit #aspens for #stunday - somewhere east of La Veta Pass, #Colorado

#fallcolor #autumn #photography #EastCoastKin #Canon5D
A striking trio of aspen trees stand tall against an azure blue sky. Their leaves are transitioning from pale green to golden. The base of the trees is in shadow, adding depth and drama to the image.
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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#Evening light on sandstone: Arches National Park, #Utah

#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #landscapephotography #Canon5DII #hiking #rockformation #nationalpark
A fortress-like wall of bright orange-red sandstone stretches across the horizon, with occasional gaps allowing for shadows to punctuate the sunlit brilliance. Scattered low green shrubs dot the foreground, while the deep blue sky above shows scattered clouds.
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Unbridled passion

#classicmono #blackandwhite #suggestive #trees #urban #citystreets #anthropomorphic #EastCoastKin
Two trees intertwined, the one in the front appearing to lay back against the other in a passionate embrace, with arms outstretched above. In the lower part of the image we see a driveway with a waste bin at the top of its slope. In the background are numerous other trees below a featureless sky.
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Freshly exposed: Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah #wilderness, NW #NewMexico

#Scape #EastCoastKin #landscapephotography #hiking #backofbeyond #blackandwhite #erosion #geology #sedimentation
A series of sandstone slabs are eroding out from the surrounding soft sediments in this sloping drainage below a group of reddish cliffs and mudstone mounds. The sky above is blue with a few puffy clouds. Black and white rendition of the accompanying color image.
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Leaving the pavement

#urbanwilds #blackandwhite #landscapephotography #fineart
A high-contrast black and white view of a tree backlit by the rising sun, with a field of high grasses and low shrubs below and around it. The foreground shows a cracked asphalt road with a crude path leading off of it into the grassland beyond. The sky looks layered with advancing shades of gray.
November 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Point of interest: Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah #wilderness, NW #NewMexico

#classicmono #EastCoastKin #badlands #hiking #blackandwhite #landscapephotography #hoodoos #rockformation #geology #erosion #backofbeyond
An elegant, odd-looking hoodoo takes center stage in this high-contrast image. Perched among the weathered and eroded hillocks of silt and mudstone, it rises spire-like into a bank of fair-weather clouds.
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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At Salinas Pueblo Missions Natl. Mon., for #WindowsOnWednesday

#ruins #historical #Spanish #NewMexico #landscapephotography #architectural
A view looking up toward a window in a partially demolished rock structure, with the focus being on a window through the massive wall. The individual adobe bricks and stones are easily seen, glowing reddish in the sunlight. Blue sky with a wispy cloud is visible at upper left.
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Symphony of stone: Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah #wilderness, NW #NewMexico

#landscapephotography #geology #erosion #hiking #backofbeyond #badlands #hoodoos #blackandwhite #classicmono #eastcoastkin
A black and white landscape showing an array of rock formations, with many pedestals of eroded sediment capped by ironstone boulders. There is a jumble of boulders at the bottom of the central wash. The sky above is mostly clear with a single wisp of cloud at center.
November 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Nessie of the desert: Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah #wilderness, NW #NewMexico

#badlands #landscapephotography #hiking #stratigraphy #erosion #geology #backofbeyond #hoodoos #rockformations
A slender-necked hoodoo with a tiny caprock rises elegantly above the sloping mudstone floor of this desert scene. At lower left is a reddish-colored ironstone boulder, while in the middle distance a mudstone ridge is capped by additional hoodoo structures. The sky is mostly clear with a few wispy clouds.
November 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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A blister in the earth

#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #blackandwhite #impressionistic #classicmono #landscapephotography #moody #spectral #aspens #boulder
Black and white image of a huge boulder protruding from the ground, with white-trunked aspen trees behind and around it. Additional bushy shrubs are growing up to cover its flanks in the foreground. The edges of the image fade into blackness.
November 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Creepy Halloween #scape selections from my White Rock Lake 'hood here in Dallas. The #mist this pre-dawn morning added to the effect.

#blackandwhite #spooky #atmospheric #EastCoastKin
The witching tree, all bare spindly branches and spiky ends. Seen here immersed in mist with other trees in the background shrouded in mist. Mist on the meadow, with a hint of a house outlined at middle left. Mist-shrouded trees beyond the bracken at right. Reminiscent of the Black Lagoon. Who knows what might emerge into the morning twilight from the shallows of this fetid, mist-shrouded pool?
October 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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To escape this #scape requires good route-finding and an ability to scramble up loose sediment. Trails are entirely absent.

#badlands #landscapephotography #NewMexico #EastCoastKin #AhShiSlePah #backofbeyond #wilderness #hiking #hoodoos #rockformations
Looking over a rim down into an erosional plain featuring a vast collection of hoodoos and rock formations in various shades of tan, red and (mostly) ochre. The sky above appears angry, with white clouds massing to form dark undersides.
October 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Aspens in autumn: two versions

#fineart #photography #sepiatone #classicmono #aspens #colorado #EastCoastKin
A grove of white-trunked aspens, their leaves turning golden, with smaller aspen bushes growing out of the ground beneath them. This sepia-toned version of the same image emphasizes the contrasts present in the delicate shapes and forms of the trees, while the golden leaves appear white.
October 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Different image (and different processing strategy) of a rock formation I posted a week-ish ago. At Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah #wilderness.

#blackandwhite #landscapephotography #badlands #hiking #backofbeyond #erosion #geology #hoodoos #rockformation
A stovepipe hoodoo at left with a flat-top hoodoo closer to center of the black and white image. A range of other rock formations fan out to the right, while at bottom we see the ray-like eroded base of the hillock hosting the hoodoos. A large flat boulder sits at bottom. The sky above shows fluffy white clouds.
October 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Against the day

#fineart #photography #blackandwhite #impressionist #deadtree #ambition #pride #classicmono #eastcoastkin #resistance
A stark monochrome rendering of a long-dead tree trunk rising into the dull grey sky. Surrounding the narrow trunk at its base we see a dozen other ravaged trunks, rising only to half the height of the central one. There is a hint of dull fair-weather clouds low in the picture.
October 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Ho hum. Another badlands #landscape photo. When y'all get tired of me posting these, let me know. (I won't stop posting 'em, though. Just sayin'.)

#RockInTuesday #EastCoastKin #photography #badlands #AhShiSlePah #NewMexico #wilderness #backofbeyond #erosion #hoodoos #rockformation
A large ironstone boulder sits at the base of an eroding hillside that shows banded strata of varying shades. Atop the rise are a series of hoodoos and other formations. The sky is blue with cottony white scattered clouds.
October 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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How about a sequoia for #ThickTrunkTuesday? With a far thinner trunk beside it for contrast.

#EastCoastKin #bigtrees #sequoia #nationalpark #kingscanyon #photography #California #bluesky
A tree so big that only a part of it is visible in this wide-angle image. Its trunk is heavily furrowed in the vertical direction. Beside it is a dead tree that is comically smaller in diameter. The sky shows scattered white clouds.
October 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM