For most of the short and often busy hike to Parker Lake, first crossing open slopes, then ducking into a forest of evergreens, the signs of autumn are as far away as birdsong on a cold winter day. After a mile, the sparseness of the forest begins to be punctuated by the white barks of aspen groves, yellows, bright greens, and the occasional splash of orange and red shining among the dull pine needles. All that is colorful is painted with the palette of the aspen, juxtaposed against the ageless rock above and still water below. Photographed October 2019.
The setting Sun winks at the ancient boulders of Zorats Karer (Karahunj), the Armenian Stonehenge. Photographed July 2017, near Sisian, Syunik Region, Armenia.
From 9:40pm to 1:40am on July 27, 2018, the camera never moved from this spot at Amberd Fortress, never shook in its resolve to capture the entire sequence of the total lunar eclipse. The 23 images of the Moon are taken 10 minutes apart, beginning with a full moon at 10:00pm (leftmost moon), and progressing through the partial eclipse, which began at 10:24pm, the total eclipse, which began at 11:30pm, and the end of the total eclipse at 1:13am. The last image is at 1:40am, during the partial phase at the end of the eclipse. Almost exactly at midnight, with the Moon barely visible, the Milky Way made a grand appearance, and a 30-second exposure (with Amberd Fortress lit by portable lights) serves as the background.
