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1.  Big Wheel, Bodie
2.  Cold front, Las Vegas
3.  Golden Gate, 1994
4.  Red Rock Canyon, 'upwind'
5.  Lights Out, Bodie
6.  Snow Canyon, 'downwind'
7.  Panorama Highway nr. Stinson Beach
8.  Chuckwalla Airfield, built for Gen. George Patton, 1942
9.  Coastal Watch nest at Rocky Point
10. Indian Head, Pyramid Lake
11. Pool hall, Bodie
12. Tattered clouds, Bodie
13. General store, Bodie
14. Bodie Hotel, Bodie
         
         
         
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Artists have been flocking to the West
for more than a century to portray its majestic vistas.

Many have recorded fantastic landscapes stretching as far as the eye can see, returning East only to display their interpretations of these breathtaking sights, replenish their purses and leave again as quickly as possible. Two artists influenced my vision of the West: Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), whose large canvases are at the National Collection of Fine Arts, and Wynn Bullock (1902-1975), whose interest in time, space, and change, parallels my own. When I was three we moved to Denver, and I fondly remember trips into the wilderness to see geological features, Indian relics, dinosaur footprints, fossils, the Rockies, deserts and other phenomena. My geologist father and my artist mother made wanted to make sure I didn't miss the importance of it all. As an adult, I didn't return to the West with a camera and a thirst for seeing what there was to see until 1973. This trip led to other pilgrimages, and by 1995, I found that I had spent more than a thousand days in the West without ever having had the privilege of residing there.

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