It's hard to know just what to write here that would be of value to you, the reader... is how this page started out for the last several years. Well, that's over now... I actually got a proper domain name and created (or at least got a start on creating) a site about my photography. I do hope that you'll pop over. Meanwhile, I am a web developer by day and a photographer every chance I get. Living in Spokane, Washington has several benefits, not the least of which is its close proximity to the beautiful Palouse country. Having lived in Spokane since the fall of 1977, I've had many opportunities to see the natural beauty of Eastern Washington, which extends Known collectively as the Great Flood, the waters that were unleashed upon the land were stored in Glacial Lake Missoula. This lake was impounded, at the end of the last ice age, by an ice dam in the Clark Fork Valley near the present town of Sandpoint, Idaho. The waters from this great lake flowed into Glacial Lake Spokane and Glacial Lake Columbia, causing them in turn to break through their dams and overflow their bounding shores. These Ice Age events formed the landscape of Eastern Washington, which in turn has affected the people that settled here, shaping their attitudes, lives and their towns. I've photographed much of the scenery, some of the towns, and a few of the people... my aim is to start photographing the people for they may be the most interesting feature of all. |
from the east slope of the Cascade Mountains to the border of Western Idaho. The landscape of Eastern Washington is unlike any other on Earth. Nowhere else has the surface of the land been washed by repeated floods that rushed through at speeds of sixty miles an hour and depths up to 1000'.
As the globe warmed, the ice dam would melt enough that the lake waters were able to undermine it and lift it. When this happened, all of the water in this huge lake (some 3000sq. mi. and 2000' deep) drained in the span of a few days.