Caribees
The three dominant islands of the Caribbean are very different. Cuba’s eastern two-thirds is modest in its variety of terrain, but both Jamaica and Hispanola are rifted and surprisingly complex, with abrupt basins and limestone plateaus. The larger pair have shore terrace systems near their eastern ends, which hints at onslaughts from the sea, perhaps… Read more »
Lakes near Old Crow
Beyond the Ice
This place is different, on the north shore of Greenland. The bluest ice is Danmark Fjord, the main icecap is at the top (southern) edge, and the dry valleys between are an arctic desert scattered with minor icecap remnants and the troughs of various now-depleted valley glaciers. A few clouds hover above the smooth icecap… Read more »
Transitions
Oaxaca
St Croix
Grapefruit
Gaspe Peninsula
Washingtonland
Scoresby Sund
Passages
Lee’s Ferry
Lac a l’Eau Claire
This view is within or near to the spawning ground for North America’s cyclical continental glaciations. At the top is Hudson Bay (north is right), and the curvy Belcher Islands are actually sea bottom which has risen up due to the un-weighting of the ice mass. The circular shore is straddled by prominent moraines, from… Read more »
Borden Island
These three islands locked in the frozen Arctic Ocean are also patterned with low lying fog, as vague popcorns obscure most of the land surface detail, with the exception of the two-toned Borden Island. Here are graceful drainage ways filled intermittently with snow, and an emptiness which asks very little of the observer. Forgotten places… Read more »
Briefly Summer
October Day
The coincidence of a cloudfree day, the height of autumn foliage, and a well-behaving satellite in local orbit made this construction possible. It stretches thirteen feet, through four images, from Quebec to Barnegat Bay NJ. The green pastures of New England can be individually identified, and the different species mixtures of trees are amusing to… Read more »
Cape Bathurst
This peninsula is among the farthest north of Canada’s mainland, and in another era seemed to be scoured and smoothed on its right side by active sea ice. This had prevented the mid-sized Horton River from entering the ocean until near the tip of the peninsula. In more recent conditions the river has broken through… Read more »