In 67 full-color photographs, Paddock offers a view of his own West: the landscape of Colorado. He shows us places we overlook because they are either too familiar or they challenge conventional notions of beauty: an old school bus in Naturita, a farmyard near Gem Village, a cement warehouse in Penrose. Without sentimentality, Paddock's photographs suggest not only the aspects of western landscape and culture that have been lost but also those that remain - and why they must be respected and preserved.
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