Water. -

Will the Colorado River and Lake Powell dry up? If a family moves to Colorado, are they moving into the eye of the storm – an apocalyptic “water crisis”?

While visiting Colorado, water was on my mind.

Four of the shots – the color shots – in today’s gallery are taken from an airplane.

I don’t know exactly where, as I was on a commercial flight and didn’t have GPS available, but the flight was from Denver to Dallas, and crossed Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.

Seeing the earth from above shows the full expanse, the full impact of humans on the land and on our water supplies.

The scenes were striking to me.

Arid brown and yellow plains, reminiscent of the Dustbowl of a hundred years ago.

It was a week before I was really able to take another photograph again.

The final image in the series, the black and white photograph, was taken from atop the Broadway Street Bridge in Little Rock. To the right is the Arkansas River, to the left the Arkansas River Trail.

As I composed the final photo, I was contemplating water, not as I want it to be, not as I fear it will be, but as it is, today.