Worst breed in the house—that’s exactly the breed I want: A dog that’s better outdoors than indoors. A dog that can handle snow drifts and scree fields, that’s smart enough to avoid guy lines and porcupines, and that has enough drive to walk uphill all day.
Read MoreEditing archives for mood, an overall feeling. This frame is not going to make the final cut but just think, it probably would have lived on a hard drive if not for social. Deep.
Read MoreThe Rockies are therefore very young and should never be thought of as ancient. They are still in the process of building and eroding, and no one today can calculate what they will look like ten million years from now. They have the extravagant beauty of youth, the allure of adolescence, and they are mountains to be loved.
Read MoreThe battleship illustrated was on a mission to draw artillery fire from entrenched Confederates at Vicksburg, Mississippi. As the Confederates spent their dwindling ammunition reserves, the Union naval officers celebrated their broadcasted fakeout, the ship was a hoax, made of wood.
Read MoreMy grandparents worked two shifts in the now-demolished Burlington hosiery mill, my grandmother took the later shift so she could fish in the mornings, and my grandfather tackled assigned shifts and picked up all the hours his body would allow.
Read MoreOptimism 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.
Read MoreGrowing 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThere are hidden valleys and hidden coves among the folds of the great hills where a man can catch a glimpse of Eden.
Read MoreMy 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.
Read More1117, 031719. Vasquez Cirque.
From the West Headwall looking back over the South Basin. Grand County, Colorado.
Read MoreWhat 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.
Read MoreFinal 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.
Read MoreCourage is knowing what not to fear.
Read MoreAt year’s end we reflect on the year we left in our wake, on goals we reached, and those that will have to wait until this fresh new year. We also reflect on the places and spaces visited and the favorite people we spent time with.
Read MoreIn my office, between camera gear, a lightly ridden training bike, and travel mementos sits a small bookshelf that carries an innocuous wooden box.
Read MoreThese 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.
Read MoreYesterday 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.
Read MoreNever be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
Read MoreNathan W. Armes is a travel photographer and videographer based in Denver, Colorado.
