ORIGINAL PHOTO PORTRAITS:

Death Valley, California

Bodie, California

How to Order Prints

Wilder's "Rockscapes" make great gifts. They capture the peace, grandeur, and serenity of nature. These are scenes that most anybody can appreciate and draw inspiration from. Each image is available for sale. You can get them in either of two formats - as 4 x 6" 300 dpi digital image or as a 16" x 20" color print suitable for framing. Click on any of the flashing thumbnails above to jump to an index of all the available photos. From the index page you can go to a slide show that will present full screen renderings of each photo. You can purchase high quality 16" x 20" prints of any photo (unframed, for $95 plus shipping and sales tax) online through our secure server. Prints are shipped either rolled inside a stiffened mailing tube, or, if you prefer to not have them rolled, they can be mailed with custom-fitted acid-free backboards in a clear cellophane bag, in a flat and stiffened package for added protection. Please specify with your order how you prefer your print to be sent. If you do not specify, we will pick the method of shipment for you. If you prefer to have your prints framed, then click here.

The images you will see on this site have a Wilder watermark, to discourage them from being freely appropriated.  Purchased images do not contain the watermark.

Enjoy.

"A stone expresses itself by the form and sometimes the luminosity of its facets, the vibration of the air passed through."
-Tristan Tzara

Welcome to Wilder Photo Imagery.  Now on display: samples from Wilder's Series  "Rockscapes" - mystical emanations from jagged salt flats in Death Valley, the immense grandeur of the Sierra Nevada, desolate ghost towns, wide open horizons with joshua trees and sagebrush, all evoking the solitude and wanderlust so much a part of the American west. Deliberately taken in locations devoid of civilization, these pictures seem to revel in the timeless qualities of stillness and quiet. Studies of light and shadow dancing on rock, carefully framed with an artists eye for balance, these compositions sing and resonate, each with its own unique character.

Natural beauty takes many forms and its quite inspiring to see how - in these remote locations of Death Valley and the Sierra Nevada - craggy stones seem to come alive with a personality all their own. In many compositions the undisturbed quiet is palpable and serenity is evident ("Sunset in Death Valley," "Panamint Springs - seen from on top Hunter Moutain"). Others evoke the relentless conflict between light and shadow, playing out with great exuberance on top of rainbow colored canyons ("Cathedral Rock - Death Valley", "Zabriskie Point - Death Valley".

There's a bit of magic and mysticism in the air - unexplained things happen ... like the strangely luminous bush captured by "Sunset in Death Valley". These could be desert landscapes from a Carlos Castaneda story, or something imagined by Octavio Paz - horizons rich and evocative. Some evince a simple desire to be at peace with nature ("Clifftop near Yosemite, California". It's nothing new, to stop and study the tilt of rocks against a stand of redwood trees, but things this wonderful are bound to be repeated "Sierra Nirvana - at the East End of Sonora Pass, California". This work shares with Ansel Adams and John Muir a joyful and harmonious reverence for nature ("Half Dome - Yosemite, California").

Several in this series show abandoned rooms and storefronts - decay and desolation from the ghost town known as Bodie. These pictures go beyond capturing a bygone era, they are instead studies of a temporal plane where objects seem to lie in wait for poltergeists to visit - where overtones are supernatural ("General Store Window at Bodie, California", "The Swazey Hotel".

Still others study brilliant sunsets and sunrises, a dance of color on rock and sky "Dawn at Zabriskie Point", "Sunset at Mono Lake", "Sunrise at Zabriskie Point #2, Death Valley".

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