— casual missives from under that big red sun

Category: Creative Suite

Oregon Again, the Pretty Woman Behind Every Waterfall, Photographic Verisimilitude, and Animated Photographs

Post author By jim owens
Post date August 1, 2026

One of the small houses of Neskowin, the delightful tiny village along the central coast. © Jim Owens

This writing finds me back in northern Utah at what appears to be the end of that difficult part of Summer when monsoonal rains kick down soaring temperatures. This breaking point is invariably well received, at least by me. In Southern Nevada things are still boiling with some of the hottest weather they have had […]

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my inner canadian, little rhody, another upcoming trip, and more park city photography

Post author By jim owens
Post date June 23, 2026

Back in the day. © Jim Owens

I was all good to go with writing this post on an airplane headed for Nevada, New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island but things happened. Actually the movie Amelie which I had never seen was on the menu for the longer flight and so I forgot about this little ditty. Excellent movie. I remember it […]

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old-school illustration, new-school ai, and new photography from nevada and utah

Post author By jim owens
Post date May 6, 2024

Another lovely sight at the Utah Tulip Festival in Lehi. © Jim Owens

There is no bar in downtown Las Vegas with the moniker “After the Apocalypse”, yet. There should be. A speakeasy. Below ground. With a thick roof and solid metal doors. The design of the card below just happened. Playing around with AI in illustrator. You turn on your computer in the morning and there is […]

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110° f in the shade, coyotes, and more on ai and social media

Post author By jim owens
Post date July 6, 2023

A quick down and back put me in Southern Nevada for ten days. On the day I arrived it was topping out somewhere in the 90’s. On the day we left it was 106, had just been 112, and was going to be bouncing around in that difficult 106 to 112 range for the foreseeable […]

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Spring, Paradise, AI, Copilot and Firefly

Post author By jim owens
Post date April 21, 2023

Adobe Firefly generated images composited using conventional techniques in Adobe Photoshop.

Ahhhh. Spring has sprung here in Southern Nevada. Ain’t life grand. The backyard critters are doing their Disney-cartoon-themed thing. Desert cottontails, jackrabbits, antelope ground squirrels, small lizards and gambel’s quail are darting in and out and hurriedly criss-crossing the yard. The chipmunk-like squirrels are particularly active munching on petunias, then climbing the ephedra and stripping […]