Photography

Landscapes, mostly at the edges of the day when the light does the work for you. Walk a long way, wait, take one frame, keep almost none of them. Filed by where I was standing.

YosemiteCalifornia · six frames San FranciscoCalifornia · three frames New YorkNew York · two frames TenerifeCanary Islands · three frames AthensGreece · four frames LucerneSwitzerland · two frames The Lake DistrictEngland · two frames The Peak DistrictEngland · one frame

California

Yosemite

Granite, water and a great deal of walking. Almost everything here was taken over three days in the valley and on the south rim.

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Yosemite

Tunnel View

The classic first sight of the valley, at the western end.

Yosemite

Mist Trail

Up the Merced past Vernal Fall, the loudest walk in the park.

Vernal Fall falling in a wide white sheet down a dark granite cliff — Plate iVernal FallThe full drop, seen from the trail below

The Merced river running white over granite boulders above Vernal Fall, with Liberty Cap beyond the pines — Plate iiAbove Vernal FallThe Merced still in a hurry, Liberty Cap behind

Yosemite

Glacier Point

The south rim, a thousand metres above the valley floor.

Half Dome from Glacier Point, its sheer face in shadow against a pale sky — Plate iiHalf DomeThe flat face, from across the valley

California

San Francisco

The city from across the water, and the headlands people drive out to in order to look back at it.

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San Francisco

Marin Headlands

The hills north of the bridge, where everyone stops to look back.

San Francisco

Golden Gate

The bridge itself, from the northern approach where the road drops away.

New York

Mostly indoors, and mostly the Met: a building large enough that you can walk all day and still turn a corner into something you had not accounted for.

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New York

The Met

On the east edge of the park, at Eighty Second Street.

Two conservators in blue coats working under lamps on an enormous faded Buddhist wall mural at the Met — Plate iiConservation, in publicA wall being mended in front of everybody

Canary Islands

Tenerife

One island from sea to summit: laurel forest and terraced villages in the north, and above the clouds a volcano that does not really believe in winter.

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Tenerife