We found this petrified log on a rock pedestal in the Bisti Badlands of northern New Mexico. The log was so cool on the pedestal that it looked like it could have been alter used by the Anasazi Indians who lived in the area over 700 years ago. This wonderful surprise is why Teig and I love to explore the American West.

Exploring the Bisti Badlands in Northwest New Mexico is like exploring a “martian world”. The scenery is other worldly with wonderful rock formations covering the landscape. This specific specimen reminded me of a large dinosaurs vertebrae. Just imagine coming upon a dino vertebrae in the middle of the desert…. Wouldn’t that be a blast!

There are many strange and wondrous rock formations at the Bisti Badlands. When you explore the area your imagination runs free and you see so many different things in the formations. I love letting my mind spin in it’s own creativity.

Teig was resting in front of a large monolith rock formation in the Bisti Badlands of New Mexico. He was watching the sun beginning to set in the west. A perfect time to rest and get a portrait of him.

One of my favorite rock formations in the Bisti Badlands of new Mexico. I have not seen anything quite like them anywhere else.

Some sauntering explorer crossed the Bisti Badlands on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico. We came across these boot prints while doing some of our own exploration of this fantastic desert landscape. I wonder what interesting things they encountered on their walkabout?

Last rays of the autumn sun reflecting off a beautiful flat rock formation in the Bisti Badlands of New Mexico.

Teig standing tall and facing the setting sun in the Bisti Badlands of New Mexico.

One of the many hoodoo rock formations at the Bisti Badlands.

Tieg loves to find shade in rocks and watch me as I work a landscape scene. He will lay there and watch me until I finish and start to pack my back pack. He was especially relaxed in these Bisti Badlands rocks near the end of a day hiking on the Navajo reservation.

The De-Na-Zin Wilderness in northwest New Mexico is a fantastic location to get away from civilization. The desert is so unique here on the Navajo Reservation. The sun was near setting on this evening in late autumn. Teig and I had hiked all day in the canyons seen below and were now enjoying the evening with a beer in hand a no other soul for miles. This was heaven on earth!

A classic Teig pose at the beautiful Bisti Badlands in the desert Southwest. This pose is what usually occurs when I tell Teig to wait and I raise my camera up… he then proceeds to sit down and stare magnificently off into the distance. He has perfected this regal pose and uses it all the time. Models seem to have their fall back comfort pose and I believe this is his. I can’t complain because I really do love the pose and I love him too!

These beautiful rock formations are found in Bisti Badlands on the Navajo Reservation in Northwestern New Mexico. Teig and I love exploring this wonderful location whenever we are close to my home town of Farmington. It is a great day hike location especially in November when we were here for this shoot.

These three spires in the Bisti Badlands reminds me of chess pieces. Hiking and exploring these beautiful canyons exhibit the wonders that can be found in the Desert Southwest. This strange and wonderful place checkmates my soul.

The beauty in the desert of Northwest New Mexico.

Cool rock formation back in the canyons of the De-Na-Zin Wilderness Area.

We experienced this wonderful landscape exploring the Bisti Badlands on the Navajo Reservation in northwest New Mexico. The rock formations are mesmerizing and a saunter out into the wilderness can create a sensation of freedom. Teig and I love this area and the serenity it allows for us and there is a plethora to explore that you can spend a week and constantly experience a new landscape on every turn.

Teig taking a rest in the patch of dinosaur eggs in the Bisti Badlands of New Mexico. What better place to take a load off then rock formations that look like prehistoric eggs?

There are a plethora of interesting rock formations in the Bisti Badlands of northern New Mexico. I came across this mushroom looking one in a lonesome canyon and thought it looked cool.

Nearing the end of a very long day exploring in the Bisti Badlands of New Mexico, Teig and I found a spot to rest in the heavy shade of the rock formations. We had hiked over 14 miles and explored many of the canyons, washes and rock formations in the area. We had begun our adventure before sunrise and took many hundreds of photos, climbed up rocks and played chase in the sand and my boy was right by my side all day. When we sat here in the cool soft white sand, Teig’s eyes were beginning to shut and he laid his head down and fell into a well earned short slumber. We had a few minutes before sunset, some fantastic light to get some more photos and still a mile back to the truck but my friend could spend the next 10 minutes catching his breath and chasing those desert rabbits in his dreams.

There are numerous rock fields to explore at Bisti Badlands in New Mexico. We came across this one and loved these twisted unique rocks in a basin. Sauntering in this surreal landscape is uber fun and fulfilling.

Teig did a fair amount of waiting on me when we were in the Bisti Badlands. It was late fall so at least it was cool out and not scorching in the high Colorado Plateau desert. He still liked finding some shade to sit in while I composed numerous landscape images… patiently waiting to be off sauntering in these badlands.

Such unique rock formations in this sacred area on the Navajo Reservation in Northwest New Mexico.

Teig enjoying the shade at sunset in the Bisti Badlands of New Mexico. This is our favorite time of the day after hiking all day and things are winding down for the evening.

We found some exquisite examples of petrified logs back in the canyons of the Bisti Badlands. It is super fun to explore these areas and find cool objects worth photographing. These artifacts were trees in swamps 70 million years ago.

The Colorado Traildog standing in the Dino Egg Patch Rock Formations in Bisti Badlands. We had the patch completely to ourselves on this day and did not see another soul in this fantastic location on the Navajo Reservation in Northwest New Mexico.

A pair of rocks balanced on sandstone at the Bisti Badlands of New Mexico. The sun was setting in the west on this cool November day and was nicely highlighting these rocks.

Teig was resting among the fantastic dinosaur egg resembling rock formations at the Bisti Badlands in northwest New Mexico.

A white "Mountain" in some interesting rock formations deep inside the Bisti Badlands. This area was once a riverine delta that lay just to the west of the shore of an ancient sea, the Western Interior Seaway, which covered much of New Mexico 70 million years ago.

Teig and I were exploring one of the valleys in the Bisti Badlands and I caught him standing by a very cool rock on the basin floor.

A closeup of the Dino Egg Field Formations in the Bisti Badlands of New Mexico. You can see the layering effects of the sandstone formations which make them resemble large Dinosaur Eggs even though they are rocks formed by wind and moisture. I still like to imagine I was standing in a lair of Brontosaurus who had laid all these wonderful eggs and she is out feeding in the distant bogs at this very moment... really fun to imagine.

Teig resting in the fine sand of the Bisti Badlands of New Mexico. It was late in the afternoon and the warm November sun was moving towards sunset in the west. We had been exploring the rock formations all day and I had sat down in the sand to rest for a moment and Teig did the same. There is something supremely special about the deserts of the southwest when you hear no sounds of civilization.