Travels with Ted

Travels with Ted

Travels with Ted: Fall Colors

We’re well into my favorite time of year, fall. The heat of summer is gone. The cold weather has not yet arrived, and the glory of nature preparing for winter is on display for all of…

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Travels with Ted: An Inviting Place

Sedona and Northern Arizona offer a rich history of Earth and the remarkable art forms that the geology of the area has inspired. Artists who excel in every media visit and many, like myself, cave to…

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Travels with Ted: Photographic Art

Few things intrigue me more than the realities and potential realities that are possible when I grab my camera and set off on a journey to photograph nature and life on earth. It is the only…

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Travels with Ted: Life With Katie

In August of 2022, I lost my friend One, a black American shorthair cat. One’s adventures were legendary, both her real-life adventures in chasing bobcats and wildlife and the adventures I created for her in the…

The Cool Place

Travels with Ted: The Cool Place

I like cool temperatures. So let’s look at one of the coolest places I know: the San Francisco Peaks, north of Flagstaff. They are one of the first things you see as you go north on…

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Travels with Ted: Where I Go!

There are a lot of places I frequent to photograph wildlife, but I have a couple of favorites and want to share the closest and best place where you can enjoy what nature has to offer…

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Travels with Ted: Of Earth & Volcanoes

We’re featuring the San Francisco Volcanic Field in this issue of Sedona Monthly (see it here), and it is one of three active volcanic fields in Arizona. I love Earth, and I am constantly amazed by…

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Travels with Ted: Dining In The Wild

While we tout the amazing restaurants, creative cooking techniques and delicious meals and desserts that we prepare from what nature provides, we tend to forget that there are other creatures on the planet that rely on…

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Travels with Ted: Building A Home

Over the millennia, we humans have constantly been able to improve our living conditions, building more and more creature comforts into our residences. We have gone from the sod homes of the prairies that my late…

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Travels with Ted: Why I Love Airports

As a kid, I grew up under the pattern to Wold-Chamberlain Field (now it’s the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport) and fell in love with all things flying. I am hooked on aviation. I flew free flight…

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Travels with Ted: Timeless Images of Sedona

As Sedona Monthly is celebrating its 20th anniversary, I am celebrating my 31st year living in Sedona. Much has changed, but (mostly) everything looks about the same: more buildings, wider roads, roundabouts and more traffic. The…

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Travels with Ted: Winter Memories

Fall is leaving, and the chilly months of winter are back. Memories of more than 30 winters are revived. There are the years when there were feet of snow, and there were years when there was…

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Travels with Ted: Sedona from the Air

I’ve been photographing Sedona from the air for nearly 25 years and have taken thousands of photos of the area. The city is within a small area of red rocks and geologic formations that have been…

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Travels with Ted: Searching For Color

September brings a close to summer and ushers in the fall season. The daytime temperatures begin dropping, and the nights are cool. In Arizona, our weather is elevation dependent. The higher the elevation, the cooler the…