"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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Fresh thick snow is already wondrous enough, but add in freezing fog from the water, and it might be one of the most wintry vistas you'll ever lay eyes on. Captured during a recent epic winter at Mono Lake: "Winter Way".

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One of my all-time great road trips: US 395 all the way through the Eastern Sierra, in between storms during the snowiest winter of my lifetime. A shot that captures the vibe of that February journey, to "The Other Side of the Mountain"...

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Here in California, the world comes to life not in the summer, but in the *winter*, when for a few glorious months it looks and feels like you're in some summertime paradise...until you notice how short the days are.

Perhaps the ultimate example I've ever seen, taken outside Santa Barbara in 2023: "How Green is my Valley?".

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From better times, when the world was only the road, and it felt like if you drove just a few miles more, the gods of the ice would take you where your soul belonged....

Taken near Mono Lake: "Winter Way".

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November thunderheads are the best...

Captured on the road in Wyoming, "Chasing the Storm".

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