Radical Optimism

Optimism is our instinct to inhale while suffocating. Our need to declare what “needs to be” in the face of what is. Optimism is not uncool; it is rebellious and daring and vital.

TRAVELNathan ArmesApril 2, 2019personal projects, photography prints

Like An Echo

Growing up in a military family was an adventure. Endless highway miles and countless hours watching the country rush past was the norm. Days Inn parking lots stretch big and broad across this great land. My grandparents, we called them mam-maw & pap-paw, lived in the house pictured above and would stay up to greet us at the door. It usually played out the same.

LIKE AN ECHONathan ArmesMarch 25, 2019personal projects, Appalachia

Fossil Plant

The smokestacks of the Kingston Fossil Plant, managed by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the town of Kingston, TN have dominated the small town's skyline since the 1950s.

LIKE AN ECHONathan ArmesMarch 25, 2019personal projects, Appalachia

Eden

There are hidden valleys and hidden coves among the folds of the great hills where a man can catch a glimpse of Eden.

LIKE AN ECHONathan ArmesMarch 25, 2019personal projects, Appalachia

Haircut

My pap-paw Pete Armes, 91, gets a haircut from lifetime Franklin, North Carolina resident Ronnie Dills. Dills has been cutting hair for 45 years, 43 in this location and generations of residents have pulled up a seat for a trim.

LIKE AN ECHONathan ArmesMarch 25, 2019personal projects, Appalachia

1965 Dodge Dart

MACHINESNathan ArmesMarch 23, 2019vintage, cars and trucks, photography prints

West Headwall

1117, 031719. Vasquez Cirque.

From the West Headwall looking back over the South Basin. Grand County, Colorado.

COLORADONathan ArmesMarch 23, 2019outdoor, lifestyle photographer

Beneath the Skies

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

COLORADONathan ArmesMarch 22, 2019personal projects, landscape photographer

Artifacts

Final Edition. Presses fell silent. Shuttered. February 27, 2009.

Artifacts from an era of booming profits, record readership, and huge circulation numbers are all that remain of many newspapers.

ON ASSIGNMENTNathan ArmesFebruary 27, 2019

Fear

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

COLORADONathan ArmesFebruary 9, 2019personal projects, landscape photographer

CONTENT STRATEGYNathan ArmesJanuary 23, 2019denver, colorado, photographer

Letters From Iraq

In my office, between camera gear, a lightly ridden training bike, and travel mementos sits a small bookshelf that carries an innocuous wooden box.

PERSONAL PROJECTSNathan ArmesNovember 11, 2018veterans, military history

Renewal

These burn areas are fascinating to explore in a walk down long-closed forest service roads. The aspens are making the first upwardly stand; the pines creep along as sprigs in the crunchy often Mars-like landscape and lush grass hugs near craggy splits in the earth where water tends to gather.

COLORADONathan ArmesOctober 13, 2018landscape photographer, burn areas

Standard Deviation

Yesterday I drove to a little spot where a curve in the road bends perfectly with a peninsula of granodiorite and pine. Below are a few variations of the curve as I walked about the side of Flagstaff Road in Boulder, Colorado.

COLORADONathan ArmesOctober 10, 2018denver, landscape photographer