In Search of Robert Service

"Framing Place and Time" <www.cophoto2022> just concluded here in Trinidad, with 40 individuals from coast to coast, curators from History Colorado, the Center for Creative Photography (Tucson, AZ) and the Smithsonian attending. We were historizing the photography workshops and events that happened in Colorado from 1970-1990. It was a rocking good time!

Trinidad Lake State Park Time for a change of scenery, from Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, to beautiful Trinidad, Colorado. I've not lived year-round in Colorado since September 1977, when I left Colorado Springs for Los Angeles. I've been following the Colorado Creative Industries for about two years, and have been extremely impressed by the State's Creative Districts - most specifically the Corazon de Trinidad . So, while I decided last year to relocate, the whole process was sped up by the events which have buffeted lives world-wide in the past four months.  Trinidad is in the southeast corner of the state, about equidistant from Denver and Albuquerque. It has a rich history, a magnificent downtown Historic District, and is home to the newest (42nd) Colorado State Park - Fisher's Peak. Amtrak runs the Southwest Chief from Union Station in LA to Chicago, and Trinidad has long been a stop along the route. It is also located along the I-25 corridor, and abut

I haven't created a post in over a year....so many changes....."shifts," rather than anything radical. October 2018, a good month spent in Colorado. It began with several days in Colorado Springs, much of it spent working with Bonnie Olson on her father's (L.H. "Ben" Benschneider) archive. The work isn't completed, but possibly will be later this year....placing much of it in the collections of Colorado College, and possibly the Pioneer Museum and Pikes Peak Library. Hooked up with my pal Chester Murphy in Trinidad, and then we visited Bishop's Castle, the Great Sand Dunes, Colorado Gator Farm and Bob and Maggie Sauer in Durango. A great deal of joint work occurred in 2019, as Raven had her left ACL surgically repaired in January, and her right ACL in November.  She is now the bionic dog....         Oh, and I got a new hip in October which, in retrospect, was about five years over due....Now, I'm pain free and much m

Over Memorial Day, Raven and I ran over to Montana for a week....visiting Bonnie Lambert and Marshall Mayer in Helena, and then onto Big Arm and Bigfork around the Flathead Lake, first visiting Sandy and Mike and then Kathy and Stephen.  The bottom image is Glacier Lake from Apgard. Raven has now been to 6 states, and gone swimming in 2.....

Raven and I took a couple of jaunts this spring. The first about a week following New Year's Day, ran down to Nevada to catch some warm weather, and met up with Eric Minuth at Cathedral Gorge - an absolutely great state park on the eastern side of the state.  Great hiking, immaculate campground - and lots of hares! Boy, do those animals bound - up to twenty feet!  

 Chester Murphy and I have been taking road trips around the West for the past 5 or 6 years. Several trips to Grand Junction, Durango and the Four Corners area. We also ran up to Canada and over to Oregon. These are on one of the Southwest trips, through Capitol Reef, Natural Bridges and, of course, the Goosenecks (2016).