Examining and Connecting with the World Around Me

[davewyman]

A few years ago I photographed Tom, who owns a welding and machine shop in Barstow, California. In his own way, Tom is helping to restrain unrestricted growth of new material things by repairing, restoring and maintaining old things.

[davewyman]

Here's a photo I made several years ago, at the Mariposa Grove of redwood (sequoia) trees in Yosemite National Park. Some redwoods have stood for a few thousand years. How much more time do they have on this warming earth?

The drought in the western U.S. and global warming have combined to kill off millions of trees since 2010. Now an increase in resultant megafires - fires over 100,000 acres in size - are taking massive numbers of healthy trees, along with more wildlife and more human lives and property.

Future implications are clear. Yet many in positions of power in the world are failing to work at mitigating what is now an inevitable global train wreck.

[davewyman]

Sometimes it’s necessary to fight against great odds. Trout at the base of Firehole Falls, Yellowstone National Park.

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Autumn in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NYC. No better way to experience the park than with a bike.

[davewyman]

At the Los Angeles River hangin' with our new friends from @blue3photogrsphy

[davewyman]

Pupfish at Tecopa, California. The fish are about an inch long. They evolved by shrinking from a much larger size when the inner sea in which they lived began to dry up, eons ago. A few species of pupfish live in in the Mojave Desert in different locations, in water twice as salty as the oceans of the earth, including the pupfish of Death Valley, to the northwest. While this pupfish and others livesin a pool of warm water next to a road over which many people travel to reach the nearby Tecopa Hot Springs, very few people are aware of the presence of the tiny, and very hardy creatures.

[davewyman]

Rick at the end of a day of fat tire biking in Anza Borrego State Park. #anzaborrego #fattire #borregosprings #cycling #biketour #americanflag

[davewyman]

Waimoku Falls - Earlier this year, after a bike ride up to the top of 10,023 ft. Haleakala Crater, on the Hawaiian island of Maui, I stood at the base of a 400 ft. waterfall. I used my fisheye lens to wildly distort the view. #maui #waterfall #waterfalls #hana #waimokufalls

[davewyman]

At the National Chloride "bone yard," near #amboycalifornia #amboy #roysmotel #route66

[davewyman]

Dawn over Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge, on a morning bike ride #manhattan #brooklynbridge #cycling #roadbike

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Kachina Dolls - in the View Hotel gift shop, Monument Valley, on the Navajo Reservation, from my new book, Fearless Photographer: Nature #monumentvalley #kachina #kachinadoll #navajo #southwest

[davewyman]

On a mountain long, long ago..... #sierra #sierraclub #sierranevada #climbing #mountaineering #mountwhitney

[davewyman]

The view over Bridgeport, California, from the Chemung Mine. 

[davewyman]

Dinner a few nights ago at Moon Shadows, Malibu

[billstrickland]

@TrueBS: always liked this shop, day 13 #BikeT http://t.co/C7J6shXxkV

[davewyman]

Oblivious to the View from the Brooklyn Bridge Tonight Having mostly recovered from a back injury that had me in a walker as late as last Wednesday morning, I biked through Brooklyn and Manhattan tonight. I was on a futile hunt to view "Manhattanhenge," a twice-a-year solar event (google it!) unfortunately obscured by clouds on the horizon. I stopped to look back at the bridge and the skyscraper skyline. I couldn't help notice the couple focused just on themselves. After I finished my ride I sent them a copy of the photo, which I think tells a story about the power of love and the need to connect that can override any and all distractions. The tall building just left of the bridge tower is the Freedom Tower, which rose on the site of the World Trade Towers after their collapse on 9/11.

[davewyman]

In the Garden of the Gods - Mountain Home, California.

Where will your road take you, how will you make the journey?