Excerpts from a Geographer's Photo Archive
If you have been to Iceland, you have probably been here and this is the “classic view.” It’s a day trip from Reykjavik and a stop on the Ring Road. I’ve been there a number of times. This time it was fall and the grasses had turned amber along the Hvítá River. (Gullfoss Falls, Iceland, 2024)
I have been here often (but not recently). When I worked in Northern Michigan, we used to go here on our day off. Color of the falls is a bit brown from the tannins from cedar and hemlock swamps upstream. It has the 2nd largest flow (behind Niagara) in the Eastern United States. (Tahquamenon Falls, Michigan, 1986)
I was at a workshop in Buffalo and my colleagues and I decided to head out to the Falls after dinner. There were a lot of blurry photos of people I don’t remember, but I remember the evening and the eerie feeling of being there at night. (Niagara Falls, New York, 2005)
Up until this year, Niagara was the most impressive falls I had seen. It’s been a number of years since I’ve been there, but was always impressed by the stories surrounding the falls as much as the falls themselves. (Niagara Falls, New York, 2000)
When I went to Hawaii, I enjoyed Hilo the most. Although still a tourist destination, it felt like it life had a rhythm outside of tourism. Akaka Falls is over 400 feet tall and sits in a state park by the same name (Akaka State Park, Hawaii, 2008)
Kathleen and I were on a trip through upstate New York early in our relationship. Too bad there isn’t a better shot of the Buttermilk Falls (Buttermilk State Park, Ithaca, New York, 1984)
I know that Kathleen and I were traveling in the early 2000s and we were re-tracing a trip from 1984. I thought I knew where this was, but when I went to check, I didn’t have a location and couldn’t track it down. It might be near Ithaca. (Somewhere in upstate New York, 2000)
This past year I’ve been to some impressive waterfalls. It made me reminisce about “waterfalls I have visited.” Expect more waterfalls this week. Here I’m 16 here and I’m at La Coca Waterfall at El Yunque, which is the only tropical rainforest in the U.S. National Forest System. (El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico, 1976)
It had been a very rainy winter in Arizona and the reservoirs had filled to capacity and water would be released into the Salt River for the first time in several years. and would arrive in Tempe on New Years Eve around noon. The line of garbage marks the leading edge of the water. (Tempe, Arizona, 2004)
I was out to lunch with an old friend who commented on how brave he thought I was to drive the camp bus on the trips to Mackinac. At the time, I thought nothing of it–now I think he has a point. (Gaylord, Michigan, 1984)
Lighted Spaces and Landscapes 