Jeremiah Tolbert

Writer | Photographer | Web Designer

Archive for March 2009

Observations on the Symbolic Nature of the Arches National Park Landscape

I believe Utah, or at least Moab, should appro­pri­ate the tourist tag line “Moab is for Lovers.”  What’s sexy about Virginia?  Because it has the word “vir­gin” in it?  Are they the world’s cap­i­tal pro­ducer of nov­elty con­doms?    Moab, and Arches National Park in par­tic­u­lar, is inher­ently a very sex­u­ally sym­bolic place.   It’s for […]

A Modest Proposal for the Automobile Industry

I believe that the solu­tion to the woes of the American auto­mo­bile indus­try is to finally make explicit what is implicit in American cul­ture.  We are car own­ers. Especially out here in Fly-over Country.   So my solu­tion is quite sim­ple.  Rather than just give bil­lions to the auto­mo­tive indus­try to do… what­ever and trillions […]

Photo: Curvy Passage

Another shot from Antelope Canyon, this time an HDR. I already want to go back and shoot here again. I wish it wasn’t so far away.

Photo: Grand Canyon Watchers

The Grand Canyon was crowded. That’s how I will remem­ber my first expe­ri­ence there. The Moab parks had vis­i­tors, but it was pos­si­ble to see parts of the park with­out being sur­rounded by a dozen peo­ple. With the Grand Canyon park, you were rub­bing shoul­ders at every sin­gle over­look. I can’t stand being around other […]