Swarm-like cloud, Iowa City

Fragmented edge of cloud, looking almost like some sort of living swarm.

Detroit Airport tunnel

One last look into the airport rave tunnel before we bid adieu.

Detroit Airport tunnel

A moment of glimmer darkness in the airport rave tunnel. I don't know how they got away with this, really.

Detroit Airport tunnel

More of the awesome airport tunnel.

Detroit Airport tunnel

More airport rave tunnel.

Detroit Airport tunnel

This tunnel between terminals in the Detroit airport was lit up with shifting lights like a rave.

Orchard near Detroit

I'm not sure what's planted in this dense-packed orchard near Detroit, but by climate I would guess pick-your-own apples.

Circular suburbia, outside Detroit

One almost never sees properly circular suburban layouts: more often, the circles are just little stubs of cul-de-sac. Here on is, however, and a double-ring at that, outside of Detroit.

Multishadow, DFW

Multiple shadow of an external light in the many-lighted working tarmac of the Dallas airport night.

Sunlight through the terminal, DFW

Sunset seeping from side to side through the windows of a Dallas terminal building.

Tails in sunset, DFW

Passenger jet tails protruding through the horizon in the DFW sunset.

Dead airport parking, Dallas, TX

One more perspective on packed cars on abandoned taxiways.

Dead airport parking, Dallas, TX

Tightly packed cars being stored in the dead Dallas airport.

Dead airport parking, Dallas, TX

A massive dead airport in Dallas, now apparently turned into nothing more than an oddly shaped lot for storing cars.

Squares and Rectangles, Dallas, TX

Rectilinear forms in an unbuilt development near Dallas.

Four bubbles, Dallas, TX

Four bubbles of cul-de-sac in a tight-packed development near Dallas.

River of road, Dallas, TX

These lines of highway seem to wiggle back and forth more like a river to my eye.

Warehouses, Dallas, TX

Another collection of apparent warehouses, likely older wooden ones rather than modern steel beam construction since they are smaller and their roofs are peaked and not flat.

Warehouses, Dallas, TX

More long, skinny warehouses, likely transshipment and logistics hubs.

Warehouses, Dallas, TX

Long flat Dallas warehouses in the sinking evening sun.

Iowa Sunset

Deep orange shades of sunset near our house in Iowa.

Winding mountain driveway, CA

A long switch-backed driveway to somebody's mansion atop the hills West of San Francisco Bay.

Stanford Dish

The Stanford Dish, conducting radio astronomy up in the hills above the university.

Stanford University

Stanford University, its sprawling red-roofed core disseminating out from around the Hoover Tower and its central lawn.

Wedge-shaped quarry, CA

A deep wedge-shaped quarry Southwest of San Jose.

Santa Cruz coastline

A fine semicircular fan of bays marks the coastline around Santa Cruz.

Morro Bay, CA

This little California port has a wonderful gigantic rock that defines its channel entrance.

Oceano Dunes, CA

Great flat dunes leak shadows to the sea.

Santa Maria River, CA

This river has clearly been completely domesticated. While its banks are still allowed to squiggle back and forth, their range is clamped within well defined straight bounds, so that even its wildest storm-driven surges out of dryness cannot breach the walls of humanity's constraints.

Foxen Canyon farm strip

No scrap of viable river plain left to waste: Californians have put to use every reasonably flat portion of this narrow canyon through dry hills.

Offshore platform near Santa Barbara

The sea between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara is dotted with offshore platforms, each a little boxy building for hydrocarbon extraction, sitting in splendid isolation on the deep blue waters.

Anacapa Island, CA

Long, thin, and rugged, Anacapa Island is a wildlife sanctuary just off the California shore amongst the Channel Islands. From the air, I love its beaded chain.

Beach gates near LAX

Sweeping funnel-shaped structures regulate access to the beach just off of LAX.

Surfridge, Los Angeles

Once a prosperous community, Surfridge was gradually depopulated and ultimately wiped away by the expansion of the adjoining LAX. Now all that remains is empty scrubby lots and the wending roads that took people to their vanished homes.

Opera house LAX

I don't know what the real story of this Los Angeles terminal is, and I'm not sure I care: to me, it is already the relocated Sydney Opera House.

LAX ceiling

Spiky symmetric ceiling structures in the Los Angeles Airport, reminiscent to me of a jet engine.

Beckman Auditorium shadows, CalTech, Pasadena, CA

Shadow of a lamp upon the wall.

Beckman Auditorium lights, CalTech, Pasadena, CA

The lights around the auditorium hang like clusters of old grey pots.

Beckman Auditorium, CalTech, Pasadena, CA

Scalloped edge of a CalTech auditorium against the deep blue background of the October sky.

Los Angeles Dawn

Dawn through the palm trees outside a Los Angeles hotel room.

Airport approach swimming hole, Dallas, TX

Just outside the southern edge of the DFW airport, somebody's swimming hole peeks out through the shady edge of a small pond.

Warehouse template, Dallas, TX

Flat wooden outlines on a concrete pad mark the forms that will rise up to become a warehouse on the Dallas outskirts.

Twin circles school, Dallas, TX

School with paired circular entrances.

Dallas amusement park

A great squiggly mess of rides poke up from between the trees of this Dallas amusement park.

Field loops, Iowa

Looping patterns at the ends of a bare dirt field.

Cornfield brushpile, Iowa

Brush pile in the focal center of a swirling field of corn.

Railroad bridge, Iowa

Railroad bridge crossing a narrow Iowa creek.

Banded fields, Wisconsin

Strongly banded patterns of planting on the terrain contours of these Wisconsin farms, interacting with shadows of the sinking sun.

Scraped wakes, Wisconsin

Wakes like frost or scratched glass on the surface of a Wisconsin lake.

Capitol Building, Madison, WI

The state capitol of Wisconsin sits at the middle of a converging star of streets in the middle of Madison.