Tom Cosgrove

Looking across a highway to the prairie, foothills and clouds. Back in the big sky of the west!

Haystack mountain looking like a bump on the prairie sits under a broad swath of clouds reaching up on an angle to the right. The sun blazes through on the left side of the clouds.

Looking across the cat o nine tails along side a lake Haystack Mountain looking like a breast on the prairie is on the background. Streaks of clouds fill the sky.

A rural Colorado road running west up a small hill. The tracks from heavy equipment run parallel to the lines on the road. Clouds are on the southern and northern edges.

A car pulls along side a ballot drop box in the foreground. The background contains clouds a the tops of the foothills.

Vendors at the Boulder Farmers Market are reflected in the windows of municipal building.

A barn sits in the open space casting an angle shadow. In the background are the foothills

A lone runner dressed in all black with white shoes on an open space trails runs alongside the tall grass on the prairie.

A barn and two cottonwood trees are blackened against the sky. In the distant corner the foothills can be observed.

Two old Cotton Wood trees stand tall in the prairie grass.

A man and woman stand on a large flat rock looking up at water fall in Pennsylvania’s Ricketts Glen State Park

Light forms a V shape on a wall in a bike pathway tunnel.

A dark path can be seen in the high grass leading to the blackened silhouette of a barn. In the distance a blazing sun hangs above the foothills.

A wooden shed in a field reflects the late afternoon sun. It is surrounded by tall thistles .

A cottonwood tree backlit by a late afternoon sun stands in front of a small barn. The foothills can be seen in the distance

The setting sun hides behind a giant cottonwood tree in a grassy field. The foothills are in the background.

Metal silhouettes of a black family walking to church in Nicodemus, Kansas a National Historic Site. “It is the oldest and only remaining Black settlement west of the Mississippi River.”

A micro wave cell tower stands over a cemetery in rural Kansas

Disturbing eternal peace or eavesdropping on daily life?

Round bales of hay dot across this harvested field into the distance under a cloudy sky.

A concrete grain storage silo with wheat mural on it sits under a cloudy sky.

An empty road runs parallel to a corn field in the foreground two hay rolls are partially hidden in the corn.

A dark cloudy sky sits over Lake Michigan in the background. In the foreground a white plastic trash barrel lies on its side in the sand.

A seagull looking at the incoming waves on the shore of Lake Michigan

Against a cloudy early morning sky smoke from a mill floats skyward. An empty rural Missouri road stretches on to the horizon

The sun shining in a canal in Chicago

A side of large spruce tree begins a row of structures that includes a wood shed and two small buildings. All are surrounded by the forest

A bridge over the shipping channel of the Chicago River casts both a shadow and a reflection on the water

A tire used as a boat bumper in a sailboat marina is reflected in the water in the foreground. In the back ground the trees lining both shorelines of the lake are reflected onto the water, too.

A life guard chair sits alone at the edge of a floating dock on Lake Mokoma moored for the winter. Fog rises off a reflection of a peninsula on the lakes surface.

A seagull drifts at the edge of the waves looking west across Lake Michigan