Beaver dam.

Beaver dam.  Glen Alpine Creek watershed.  Fallen Leaf Lake.  South Lake Tahoe, CA.

Beaver dam. Glen Alpine Creek watershed. Fallen Leaf Lake. South Lake Tahoe, CA.

In celebration of the Nevada Museum of Art’s “Tahoe: A Visual History,” this week’s posts are drawn from my Lake Tahoe work.

This image is part of my long term study of the Lake Tahoe region. More of my Tahoe work can be found at Lake Tahoe photography. For more on my best-selling monograph, visit Lake Tahoe: A Fragile Beauty (Chronicle Books).

For information on this image, including archival print purchase, contact me with the title of this post.

Diptych Series: Crossings. State Route 48. Oklahoma.

Crossings. Keystone XL construction on State Highway 48. Oklahoma.

Diptych Series: Crossings. Keystone XL construction on State Highway 48. Oklahoma. Google Street View 2013.

In Crossings, the controversial delivery of tar sands oil to Port Arthur, Texas is examined at ground level through the dispassionate eye of Google Street View, the automated documentarian of our nation’s roadways. The 180° diptychs compiled here are composed of opposing camera views from each intersection between the Keystone XL pipeline corridor and the roving camera. This is a historical moment, captured incidentally, accessible for a year or so, and then deleted from the record at the next passing of the camera.

For more, visit Crossings and the Keystone XL Mapping Project.

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