Daniel Frith

@dfrith.bsky.social

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Retired quality guy. Photographer by avocation.

A color image of an ancient decaying moss covered stump next to 2 large ferns. Sunlight is filtered through the canopy of the deep redwood forest. The filtered light is highlighting the edges of the moss on the jagged edges of the stump and revealing all the shades of green in the ferns. The forest provides the background of the image.
A monochrome image of a group of people exploring the base of one of the arches at Arches National Park.
A monochrome image of people in the South Dakota Badlands. The foreground of the image is flat with dirt and gravel. The background is hazy and consists of indistinct jagged hills. The sky is a hazy gray. In the middle left of the photograph is a father facing the hills with his two young children, a boy and a girl, face toward the camera. To the father's right is a woman holding a leash. The leash stretches toward the children, and at the end of the leash is a beagle with his head turned to the camera the wind is blowing his ears out flat like wings. The woman is facing the hills. Between the camera and the people and dog, a woman in light clothes is walking toward the camera. Her head is down and the wind is blowing her hair to one side.
An image of an artist in front of an easel in a parking lot facing an adobe studio building. The artist is painting with his left hand. He is wearing sunglasses as he studies the canvas. The artist is standing next to an antique light green pickup truck. Behind him on the right side of the image is an old Chevrolet pickup. It's a 1060s model, not quite as old as the other pickup, but also in worse shape the rust on the hood and fender make it difficult to discern the color of paint. The background of the image is a muted yellow building with 2 square windows.
An image of an eagle perched on a fence post with wings spread. Remnants of prey are hanging from the eagle’s mouth. Six ravens are perched on the fence on either side of the eagle. A seventh raven is airborne a foot or two above the eagle’s head. The fence is in a field of grass and brush. A mountain fills the top half of the background.
A monochrome image of a couple. He is sitting in the back of a minivan. She is sitting beside him in an outdoor chair. She is removing her glasses with her right hand, and she has eclipse glasses in her left hand. He appears to be speaking to her. In front of them are two tripods. The closer one has a camera with a long lens with a large solar filter pointed up toward the sun. The other tripod seems like to have a small movie camera which is pointed out in front of them. Behind the tripods and next to the minivan is the rear end of a class A motor home.
A monochrome image of a stone bell tower. There is a raven perched on the cross on top of the bell tower. The bell is visible through a large window opening in the tower. The sky is filled with clouds mostly white with darker clouds near the edges. A lower building partially obscures the bottom of the building the bell tower is a part of the
An image of 4 people silhouetted in front of 2 abstract paintings.
A monochrome image of the badlands. A wide trail crosses the image near the middle with three people walking in a row. Several other people are dotting the foreground. The people appear very small against the vast landscape.
A monochrome image of a man standing on railroad tracks looking down the tracks. The man is holding his hands behind his back. Directly behind him is what appears to be an old railroad signal. In front of the man is an old railroad boxcar. There are old wooden buildings and railroad artifacts scattered around. Everything is weathered and decaying. A second set of tracks runs parallel. Beyond the tracks and buildings are rolling hills crossed by a road in one direction and power lines in another. Beyond the hills are mountains in haze. The sky is overcast with dark cumulus clouds that give the image a slightly ominous feel. Three power lines run across the top of the photograph.
A monochrome image of a festival street scene. The bottom right of the image is a boy in mirrored sunglasses, a dark cap, and a shirt with "BBVA" on it. Behind the boy is a crowd of people walking in front of a row of booths and tents on the left side of the photo.
An image of a green valley. On the bottom right of the photo is a broken dead tree. Bits of a small dirt road are visible across the bottom. The middle of the photograph is predominantly a meadow with evergreens scattered across it. The top third is more heavily wooded with a small lake on the left.
A monochrome image of an RV park in moonlight. A gravel road runs diagonally from the bottom left corner to the middle of the right side. There is a rectangular pavilion on the left side of the road. The road ends at a shed against a latilla fence. Between the pavilion and the fence are several large motor coaches and 5th wheels with associated vehicles. The right side of the road is lined with rocks and small bushes with a couple of RVs near the fence. The sky makes up the top two thirds of the image. There are smooth clouds just above the horizon with the full moon in the center of the picture above the clouds.
A monochrome image of the refurbished bandstand on the Taos plaza. Christmas lights outline the top. Adobe buildings form the background. On either side of the bandstand are bare cottonwood trees. Behind the bandstand is a 45 foot tall unlit Christmas tree. The sky is filled with clouds.
An image of a crowd of people standing on the Taos Plaza. In the background of the picture is the Hotel La Fonda. The hotel is outlined in farolitos, and decorative lights are being projected on it. In front of the hotel on the left is a cottonwood tree wrapped in blue lights. The tops of blue canopies are visible on the right and left edges of the image.
A 5 year old is laying across the top of a pink rolling suitcase. She is using her feet, clad in sparkly boots, to propel the suitcase across the room. She is looking at the camera with a lock of hair across her face.
A monochrome image of a family of 4 walking together. On the left is a long haired child with a cape and a T-shirt with a raccoon on it. In the middle a younger child holds onto his mother’s hand. On the right the father is holding the mother’s other hand. He is wearing long plaid shorts and a T-shirt. Behind them is an adobe building.
An image of a sunset. The horizon is at the bottom of the picture with hills silhouetted against the sky with a few tree tops also silhouetted. There are dark clouds with sunlight from below the horizon lighting them from underneath. The light is shades of plink, orange, yellow, and gold. Rays of golden light fan out across a cloud in the upper right quadrant of the picture.
An image of a colorful monsoon sunset. The foreground is dark with a tree silhouetted against the horizon. The sky is partly cloudy. Near the horizon the clouds are golden. Above that is a band of dark gray clouds with even darker clouds across the top of the frame. Across the middle of the darkest clouds is a patch of virga that is glowing pink from the sun that has already set below the horizon.
An image of hills south of Santa Fe, New Mexico, taken from the Santa Fe Skies RV Park. The hills are in a haze that helps define the distance between the rows of hills. In the foreground is a walking path. On the right side between the path and the camera is the rust covered body of an antique car. To the right of the car is an abstract sculpture on a concrete pedestal. The sculpture is a metal circle that is red on the outside and blue on the inside. Just past the path is a wire fence, and beyond the fence is a field speckled with juniper bushes that stretches to the hills.
An image of a large brown and tan dog draped over the chaise end of a brown leather sectional sofa. His hind legs are visible sticking out from behind the chaise on the left side of the photograph. His snout is resting on the sofa cushion, and his right leg is hanging off of the chaise.
An image of a boy in mid air. On the right side of the image is the black metal platform he jumped from. A woman is standing on the platform with her back to the camera. A vertical sign reading “The Stunt Jump” is attached to the side of the platform. The top of a Ferris wheel is visible on the bottom left side of the image. The boy is higher than the top of the wheel.
Sunset on beach with a girl doing a handstand in the distance being photographed by a friend.
An image of the front porch of a pueblo style house. The flagstone porch leads away from the camera to a wooden door. On the right side 2 large columns support the wooden ceiling above the porch. There is a large window in the adobe wall on the left side of the porch. Two turquoise colored rockers sit in front of the window. The porch continues in an L to the right with 2 smaller windows and 2 turquoise Adirondack chairs. The windows reflect the sky and the window on the left reflects a tangled wood and rock mobile that hangs from a beam. Above the beam 2 vigas are visible. A bit of the courtyard is visible on the bottom right side.
An image of a red rock butte wall with a flat shelf in the foreground. The rock shelf is smooth and flat except for a few small rocks of varying sizes.
An image of an Aztec dancer’s head and shoulders. His face is painted, he is wearing a jaguar face on his head with a feathered headdress and feathered costume. The feathers and ornamentation are vibrant shades of green, blue, red, and pink.
An image of a columbine plant with 3 yellow blooms. The plant is growing up through gravel against an adobe wall.
An image of a stone arch in Arches National Park. There is a line of people walking toward the arch. The line moves across the image from the bottom left to center right. It crosses to the back to the center of the picture then goes up the sloping bottom of the arch. People are standing and sitting on the sloped inside of the arch in various positions silhouetted against the blue sky.
A street scene from an outdoor dining perspective. In the foreground is the top of a latilla fence with the latillas cut to the same height. On the right side of the image rising above the fence is a street sign for Quesnel and Paseo del Pueblo. Traffic negotiating the intersection is visible through the latillas. A number of vertical poles with signage and lighting rise behind the fence. Blue and green patio umbrellas are partially visible at the top of the image. Beyond the poles are trees, and above the trees is a blue sky with wispy clouds.
An image of a mountain in late afternoon sunlight. In the foreground is a field of sage in shades of yellow and green. Between the sage and the mountain are trees in various shades of green. Like the mountain, the evening sun bathes the trees and sage in light and shadow. The sky is clear but hazy.
A picture of a churchyard. On the left of the image is an adobe building with an arched doorway. The steps leading to the door are obscured by a low wall that mimics the shape of the steps. To the right of the door is a window. Attached to the building is an adobe wall that curves outward. There is an arched entry way through the wall. The back right third of the picture is a back wall. There is a large cross in front of the wall. Inside the courtyard is tall grass and weeds. The late morning sun shining at an angle highlights the texture of the adobe.
A backyard scene. The foreground is a flagstone patio streaked by light filtering through the latia covering. On the left 2 columns are silhouetted. The top third of the picture is filled by a large purple lilac bush in full bloom. A white lilac is partially visible on the right.
A monochrome image of power lines and poles. In the foreground a road crosses the image. Poles and lines go across the image and toward the horizon. Some of the poles appear to be placed randomly. The landscape is grass and juniper with a few small trees.
4 clusters of lilac blooms. Only a few of the flowers are fully open; most are buds. The background of the image is the dark green of lilac leaves. A mound of melting snow sits at the center of the clusters.
Redwoods in dappled sunlight. At the bottom of the image is the gnarled trunk of a dead tree. The trunk of a small fallen tree crosses the photograph just above the stump. Both trunk and stump are moss covered. Ferns and other undergrowth add even more green to the image.
A monochrome image with large rectangular sandstone boulders in the foreground overlooking a dry river bed and scrub vegetation. The horizon is defined by sandstone cliffs, and cumulus clouds dot the sky. Sunlight illuminates the middle portion of the cliffs and the tops of the boulders.
A black and white image of the Sagebrush Inn at night. The light adobe exterior is illuminated by floodlights. The windows and vigas are dark, and farolitos outline the roof.
A black and white image of the Sagebrush Inn. In the foreground a latia fence crosses the image. Above the fence and across a street is the inn. It’s a light colored adobe with dark vigas. The inn is surrounded by cottonwood trees, just above the trees hang low level clouds.
A almost sepia toned image of the Manzanita mountains in the distance and the sky streaked with clouds.
A docked paddle wheel steamboat in heavy fog. In the foreground the dock and steamboat are reflected in the muddy water of the Mississippi River.
B&W Image of radio telescopes in a row at the very large array
Sunset on beach with a girl doing a handstand in the distance being photographed by a friend
Raven perched on the bed of a pickup truck in a grocery store parking lot
Early morning sun shining through a latia fence with light snow falling.
Taos sunset
New year +1 Taos sunset
Grandchild and dog on rooftop deck.
Picuris at sunset
Taos sunset
Mid winter evening
San Antonio on the Taos Plateau
Sunset taken from front courtyard
Just another New Mexico sunset
Monsoon rainbow with hummingbird photo bomb