We associate deserts with heat, but as the ice suggests at bottom right, it was chilly that day, but that only makes the stark beauty of these red rocks all the more impressive. You can practically see "Whispers in the Wind"...

Taken by yours truly at Arches National Park, Utah.

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Like something out of those prehistoric reconstructions...only it's real, taken last year in California! But then again, the coast does have a way of making time seem like it truly is relative...

Taken in Ventura last August: "Sunset in the Lost World".

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Taking a moment to appreciate the most hardcore of maritime vibes: the Lost Coast is nearer, but few approach the dreamy quality of Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach when he painted "Capri"....

Pro tip, BTW: the place really does look like his paintings, but all the views that are any good are from the water on a boat.

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On the lam? No, just admiring those magnificent red towers of what might be the most beautiful suspension bridge in the world. Just traversing it you don't really notice it, even as a classic movie fan, but turn the saturation down, and you realize...it's "Modern Noir".

Captured on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge by me.

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"Dawn Will Turn to Silver Glass"...one of the most magical mornings I've ever been, and it was all because of the ripples and rapids of this little stream.

Taken by me in the Sierra Nevada last April.

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Why can't I ever have a little party like this?...

Albert Lynch's "Tea Time".

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"Taking the Sluice" is what this feels like...a sluice made for cars, and honestly...when you make a monochrome picture like this into an ink-sketch, it has that video-game world quality that makes many a landscape in the American West seem like an old friend.

Taken in Colorado on Interstate 70 near Glenwood Springs last summer.

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