Barbara Grist Photography

05/26/2024

Ahhh…Croatia 🇭🇷

05/26/2024

Ahhh, Croatia 🇭🇷

05/20/2024

A lovely morning at Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia.

05/15/2024

Enjoy the ride through Venezia with me!

04/27/2024

Ahhh…Europe!!

04/21/2024

03/18/2024

Photo accessories for sale, message me if interested. More to come.

03/05/2024

Reading is the key to kids success!

Working with Dolly Parton's Imagination Library has been wonderful during our partnership these past few months!

Take a look behind the scenes at their tour of our BWB Dunfermline warehouse, and visit https://imaginationlibrary.com/ for more information on how you can support The Imagination Library.

02/22/2024

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We celebrate great independent films in our annual film festival each March in Durango, Colorado.

02/21/2024

Here’s a new gallery on my website, called Desert Beauty for your viewing pleasure.

Images from the desert landscape.

02/04/2024

Flowers of celebration and love ❤️

01/21/2024

Scenes from the Navajo reservation. The black-and-white images are from Chip Thomas aka Jetsonarama. Very impactful.

01/10/2024

A great trading post in Cortez, CO. 80% of their business comes from Native Americans.

Trading posts have been a fixture in the Four Corners region for a hundred years. During their heyday in the 1920s and 1930s, trading posts served as both centers of commerce and community gathering spots. As the name suggests, most goods were traded, not sold. Historically, Navajo families brought in their livestock, wool, rugs, baskets, carvings, buckskins and jewelry and traded them for goods they needed at home such as clothes, tools, and food. Patrons who traveled far by wagon or horseback would visit with one another, oftentimes huddling around the wood stove, a key fixture of the trading post.

Remnants of the Ismay Trading Post can be found out County Road G west of Cortez. Built in 1921 by John and Eleanor Heffernen Ismay. Once a thriving gathering spot where Utes, Mormon pilgrims, local ranchers could be found all grabbing their mail and/or stocking up on seasonal fresh produce, canned goods or hardware supplies.

While today’s trading posts in Mesa Verde Country no longer work on the trade system and typically only carry Native arts and crafts, they remain an important tie to commerce in the region and the bridging of Navajo and Anglo cultures.

See the trading posts for yourselves during your next trip through Mesa Verde Country!

Story/Photo Credit: Mimi Mather

01/10/2024

01/07/2024

Scenes from the Southwest 🏜️

12/04/2023

Morning walkabout…

10/26/2023

Images from Hovenweep National monument in Southwest Utah. Fascinating architecture and history of the Ancestral Puebloan culture.

10/15/2023

Eclipse shadow art…very special.

10/14/2023

Colorado splendor ❤️

09/05/2023

Just finished uploading to my New York City gallery on my website. Take a little trip through my eyes (and legs!) to the Big Apple 🍎
www.barbaragristphotography.com
Go to galleries, WORLD then USA and New York City.

Images by Southwest Colorado photographer Barbara Grist. World, Mother Earth, Sky, Water, Creatures, Botanical Beauty, Family, Friends, Business are some of my galleries.

09/04/2023

The Whitney Museum in New York City designed by Frank Loyd Wright was a joy to photograph! I love organic lines and this was most spectacular!

09/03/2023

Grand Central Station, the Highline Trail and NYC architecture!

07/04/2023

Summer blooms and backyard flowers.

06/19/2023

Savanah’s architecture is always interesting and varied.

06/19/2023

Forsyth Park, the Central Park of Savannah, never disappoints.

06/17/2023

Savannah never disappoints.

06/08/2023

An evening in Coolidge, Kansas.

05/09/2023

Our cool little town! Come visit!

For a charming, historical, and fun town on the Colorado-New Mexico border, visit the small yet mighty Cortez.

05/09/2023

Take note…

Should these people walk through or around those wet and dry desert potholes? Let's find out...

One of the least known yet most incredible creatures we share the desert southwest with are shrimp. Yes, shrimp. These little invertebrates aren't the jumbo pink kind you see in the grocery store. They're more like the sea monkeys you might have had as a kid. Well actually, they're exactly like those little 'sea monkeys' which are also actually shrimp.

There are several species found in our region including tadpole shrimp and fairy shrimp. Our little crustaceous cousins have adapted to the wildly variable conditions that exist on the Colorado Plateau. In fact, they've adapted to live in just about any condition, as these organisms are amongst the oldest known species to exist, making dinosaurs look recent!

These mighty little creatures live in the ephemeral (temporary) pothole pools of water and go dormant when they dry up, become too hot, or become too cold. Going dormant is more like an amazing magic trick. When these clever crustaceans sense the weather is changing they convert the water in their bodies into sugars, which can't evaporate, freeze, or expand and contract with temperature thus keeping them alive to swim another day. These very small animals can be dormant for years waiting for the right conditions to emerge.

Thus it is SO important to make sure you don't walk through potholes (wet or dry) on slickrock because you might unknowingly be stepping on shrimp!

(Thanks to SJMA's Education Director, Adriana Stimax, for this fascinating lesson)

05/03/2023

Snow capped Rockies 😎