On the Land
Eadweard Muybridge
American (1830--1904)
The Domes from Merced River, Yosemite Valley, c. 1874
albumen print
George Eastman House
Carleton E. Watkins
American (1829-1916)
Cape Horn, Columbia River, Oregon, 1867
albumen print
George Eastman House
On the Land
Unnamed Lake
"The refuge is so remote and untamed that many peaks, valleys, and lakes are still without names and shall remain that way. Marsh fleabane cluster along the lakeshore, while Nichenthraw Mountain and spruce trees are reflected on the calm water of early morning."
From: Pressing Forward: Arctic Refuge Photographs by Subhanker Banerjee at Orion.
On the Land
(Scroll down. It's a Big Tree)
On the Land
Mom's Cafe in Salina, Utah.
Best Chicken Fried Steak on Planet Earth
On the Land
Storm Over the LaSal Mountains
Moab, Utah -- September 7, 2003
Click for larger view
On the Land
From the terse but always interesting Muxway "Very Big Machine"
Fair warning: the image is about 1.6 megs in size and, broadband or not, will eat your browser.
On the Land
The blackout as seen from mid-heaven.
Click for larger image.
Via Junkyard Blog
On the Land
Click for larger image.
Geology of the Conterminous United States at 1:2,500,000 Scale
The present Geologic Map of the United States follows the same format as the preceding Geologic Map of the United States of 1932. Ideally, both have been designed to represent the geological features that the user could find if he should visit any locality within its limits, that is, the bedrock formations that lie at the surface at that locality. In many parts of the country, especially in the arid regions of the Southwest, this is literally true. In other parts of the country there are lesser or greater departures from this ideal, owing mainly to concealment of the bedrock by surficial material.
On the Land
James M. Clash's Forbes article Namibian Giant, is not about some future draftee for the Celtics. It's a fascinating item about taking on a pile of sand so vast it can hardly be imagined.
Wait 30 million years and you get Big Daddy, one of the oldest sand dunes on the planet and thought to be the biggest. A ziggurat of red sand, Big Daddy rises 1,200 feet from the parched African earth of the Namib Desert. Above is the deepest of blue desert skies; at its base is a sea of golden, talc-like clay. The sharp contrast of the three colors reminds one of a giant Rothko painting.Climbing Big Daddy, however, is not like climbing a Rothko, which would be a great deal easier. First you've got to get yourself to Namibia, in southwest Africa, sandwiched between Angola and South Africa. We flew 15 hours nonstop from New York to Johannesburg, connecting there to a two-hour flight to Windhoek, Namibia's capital. From Windhoek it's still another hour in a small charter plane to Sossusvlei, but the ride, with the sea of dunes undulating below, is supernaturally beautiful.
American Studies
Art Within America
Blather & Spew
Citizens
Coasts & Heartland
Companions
Essays & Items
Global Reach
Icons
Issues & Episodes
Its the Law
Mass Distractions
Mondo Bizarro
Myths & Texts
Obsessed & Confused
On the Land
Oneliners
Pure Opinion
Pure Products of America
Reportage Redux
Simulacrum
Sites Unseen
The Americans
Zenecdotes
- Two American Landscapes
- The Arctic photographs of Subhankar Banerjee
- Crater Lake, Oregon
- The Big Tree
- Never Eat at a Place Called...
- A Rainbow in Curved Air
- The Big Machine
- Something Has Eaten the Northeast
- The Bedrock of the United States
- Big Daddy: World's Biggest Sand Dune