Monochrome

The same wild places with the color taken away — what’s left is light, shape, and silence.

Black-and-white mountain summit above treeline, patches of snow on rocky talus slopes under a dramatic grey sky

Colorado high country

The Colorado high country stripped to rock and weather — a bare summit in Rocky Mountain National Park shouldering into a slate sky, last winter still holding the hollows.

Black-and-white geyser basin with a tall column of steam rising from a barren sinter flat and merging into streaked clouds overhead

Yellowstone breathing

A column of steam climbs off the basin floor and joins the clouds halfway up — in Yellowstone the line between the earth's weather and the sky's is only a rumor.

Black-and-white view from a dry wash looking up at eroded hoodoo spires, pines clinging to the slopes, streaked clouds in the sky

Bryce without the fire

Bryce with its famous fire put out — from the floor of the wash the hoodoos stand as plain stone, rank on rank, carved by the same patient water that dug the creek bed underfoot.

Black-and-white banded badlands mound with broken rock on its slopes, barren desert floor in front and small clouds in a dark sky

Painted desert, unpainted

A badlands hill in Petrified Forest National Park, banded with the ages that built it — clay laid down epoch over epoch, shedding its stone one broken block at a time under a noon sky.

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