My latest effort

Posted on November 2, 2025 by Thomas Bethune
Light painting

Phantom 309

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DEATH VALLEY BUILDING REMAINS

Posted on April 2, 2025 by Thomas Bethune

Death Valley 2016

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Arcata Building at Creamery

Posted on March 28, 2025 by Thomas Bethune

Arcata 2017

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COLOR IN A BURNED OUT REDWOOD SNAG

Posted on March 24, 2025 by Thomas Bethune

I admit to pumping up the colors, but I am attempting to interpret what I see here.

Arcata Community Forest 2017

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Looking Back at Candidates for an Exhibit

Posted on March 23, 2025 by Thomas Bethune

Light at the end…

2016 Near Loleta CA

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PHANTOM 309

Posted on January 20, 2025 by Thomas Bethune

Big Joe January 19, 2025

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THIS MORNING

Posted on November 11, 2023 by Thomas Bethune

Strait out of the camera

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LEGACY TRAINS

Posted on November 8, 2023 by Thomas Bethune

SP TRAIN NUMBER 52 AT SANDCUT c.1979

TRAIN NUMBER 52 AT BEALVILLE C.1970

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THE BUDDHA’S FEET

Posted on October 23, 2023 by Thomas Bethune

Thiksey Monastery 2008

Thiksey Monastery, 2008

There was so much to see in the various gompas, and most of it did not stick to my poor brain. Thupten was a patient teacher, but most of the explanations were lost on me. I imagine that if I spoke the language and had a lifetime to study, it could eventually make sense .

Life is finite. Thiksey Monastery, 2008

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REVISITING LADAKH

Posted on October 22, 2023 by Thomas Bethune

View from Thupten’s house near Leh

MY ADVENTURES IN LADAKH

I recently started following the adventures of ITCHY BOOTS aka Noraly Schoenmaker on YouTube after a friend told me that Noraly was riding a motorcycle on the high mountain roads of Ladakh. My adventures in the Himalayan mountains took place in 2008, and I too traveled on those roads.

I am reworking many of the photographs that I made fifteen years ago. It is interesting to see the changes to Ladakh over these past fifteen years. I think that I was very fortunate to have visited there when I did. Here are some views from my first couple of days there at Thupten’s home near Leh.

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