by Lui Umano | Jan 29, 2016 | January 2016
Many years ago Ms. Lucy Nolan told me that I was welcome to photograph her barn at any time, so long as I did not use the image in a “beer commercial.” I have kept my word, and I have photographed Ms. Lucy’s barn in every season and under almost...
by Lui Umano | Jan 22, 2016 | January 2016
The rivers of the Southern Appalachians are beautiful beyond words, and when the reflected light of a winter sun bounces off an understory of last fall’s leaf litter unto a surface of churning water, magic happens, like Rumpelstiltskin spinning liquid straw into...
by Lui Umano | Jan 15, 2016 | January 2016
On my way from Las Vegas, New Mexico to Amarillo, Texas I crossed the Llano Estacado from west to east as a fierce thunderstorm blew in from the North. I had come through the edge of the storm and knew there was both lightning and hail associated with the cell; so I...
by Lui Umano | Jan 8, 2016 | January 2016
It has become rather difficult to do much artistic landscape work in the Smokies during icy and snowy weather events because the Park’s roads are often closed. It’s probably more a matter of maintenance costs than anything, although safety is certainly a...
by Lui Umano | Jan 1, 2016 | January 2016
Indian Service Road 7900/7950 is the most direct way into Chaco Canyon from the northeast, crossing through the Navajo Nation from Nageezi. It is a rough, rocky, washboard of a dirt track, and it traverses through layer after layer of high desert geologic time with...
