A Gallery of Yugen
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image: joshua tree hall of horrorsDefining a Zen concept is like playing pin the tail on the amoeba, but I'll give it a shot. Yugen is the dark, shadowy side of Nature. Yugen is the profoundly unfathomable. Yugen is the beautiful, terrifying riddle science will never solve.

The gallery below consists of photographs which, I feel, capture the essence of yugen.  Click on the thumbnails for a larger image. Many of these landscapes are featured in my book Haunted Hikes.

If you have a landscape or hiker photo taken in a national park and appropriate for my gallery, I'd love to see it and maybe share it with others. Email me a link where I can view it. 

 

 

Links to         
Yugen Gallery photographers

Mike Mercier

Teressa Williams

Scott Morris

Jeff Blaylock

Narayan Sengupta

 

All Yugen photographs are protected under copyright laws. Please obtain permission from the photographer before printing or publishing any of these photographs. I will be glad to help you contact them.

 

 

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Photo of the Month

Reader Sandi Montero sent me this eerie shot she took while visiting Crater Lake. A park ranger once told me that Crater Lake was a "ghosts and goblins park." Montero's photo adds credence to this description.

 

This site was last updated 11/24/07