Lighted Spaces and Landscapes

Excerpts from a Geographer's Photo Archive

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  • The Whole Shoe

    Yesterday was focused on just the small fall on the right. Here is the whole Goðafoss horseshoe. (Goðafoss, Iceland, 2025)

  • Just a Bit of Falls

    I was starting a trip in northern Iceland and I had been driving most of the day before I stopped at Goðafoss. Although the expanse of the horseshoe falls is the attraction, I became interested in the nuances of the falls such as this small fall in the horseshoe. (Goðafoss, Iceland, 2025)

  • Gullfoss–Less Classic

    This is my favorite photo of Gullfoss. Yesterday’s classic view is good, but this one reminds you of the power of water as the mist rises over the bank and the water continues down the Hvítá River. (Gullfoss, Iceland, 2024)

  • Gullfoss–Classic

    If you have been to Iceland, you have probably been here and this is the “classic view.” It’s a day trip from Reykjavik and a stop on the Ring Road. I’ve been there a number of times. This time it was fall and the grasses had turned amber along the Hvítá River. (Gullfoss Falls, Iceland, 2024)

  • Surprise Falls

    I have been here often (but not recently). When I worked in Northern Michigan, we used to go here on our day off. Color of the falls is a bit brown from the tannins from cedar and hemlock swamps upstream. It has the 2nd largest flow (behind Niagara) in the Eastern United States. (Tahquamenon Falls, Michigan, 1986)

  • Niagara at Night

    I was at a workshop in Buffalo and my colleagues and I decided to head out to the Falls after dinner. There were a lot of blurry photos of people I don’t remember, but I remember the evening and the eerie feeling of being there at night. (Niagara Falls, New York, 2005)

  • Niagara

    Up until this year, Niagara was the most impressive falls I had seen. It’s been a number of years since I’ve been there, but was always impressed by the stories surrounding the falls as much as the falls themselves. (Niagara Falls, New York, 2000)

  • Big Island, Tall Falls

    When I went to Hawaii, I enjoyed Hilo the most. Although still a tourist destination, it felt like it life had a rhythm outside of tourism. Akaka Falls is over 400 feet tall and sits in a state park by the same name (Akaka State Park, Hawaii, 2008)

  • The 1984 Trip

    Kathleen and I were on a trip through upstate New York early in our relationship. Too bad there isn’t a better shot of the Buttermilk Falls (Buttermilk State Park, Ithaca, New York, 1984)

  • Not Sure Where

    I know that Kathleen and I were traveling in the early 2000s and we were re-tracing a trip from 1984. I thought I knew where this was, but when I went to check, I didn’t have a location and couldn’t track it down. It might be near Ithaca. (Somewhere in upstate New York, 2000)