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Michael Ribas Photography

Scenic nature and landscape photography featuring West Virginia and southeast Ohio.

11/18/2025

Autumn Impressionism

Impressionistic art can be found everywhere in nature itself, especially on those misty fall mornings with the pastel colors and soft light.

11/13/2025

Mountwood in Autumn 1

Mountwood park is a peaceful calming place that you usually have pretty much to yourself, especially on those quiet, misty, autumn mornings.

11/09/2025

November Morning at North Bend Lake (11/9/2025)

The calm before winter's preview tonight and tomorrow.

11/01/2025

Driving the Backroads of West Virginia in the Fall.

10/30/2025

Canaan Valley Sunset 10-8-2025

From one of my very favorite locations along the Blackwater River in Canaan Valley.

10/27/2025

Morning at Mountwood (10-27-2025)

Mountwood is one of my favorite local spots for fall photography, and it's especially nice when it doesn't take a 3 hour drive just to get there. I've shot the lake many times in the fall but this is the first time I decided to incorporate the small shelter. This years fall colors have been very subdued but its a chance for the more subtle tones of the season to shine through.

10/21/2025

Autumn Foliage (10-8-2025)

On a day that was more clouds than sun, the sun broke through just long enough to capture an image of it illuminating this grouping of trees in Canaan Valley.

10/16/2025

Daybreak at Spruce K**b Lake (10/9/25)

Spruce K**b lake will always have a special place in my heart, when one day each early spring my dad would get us up in the wee hours of the morning to make the long three hour drive to the lake to go trout fishing. It was the most exciting day of the year! Now when I walk around the lake, it always brings back those distant memories as though it was yesterday. On this frosty October morning I was lucky enough to have the entire lake all to myself for the two hours I was there hiking, shooting pictures, and just reminiscing of days gone by.

10/12/2025

Edray Autumn Morning. (10-10-25)

I've shot this barn in Pocahontas County many times but always later in the day. This is the first time I was able to shoot it in the early morning. To me it is one of the most picturesque iconic scenes in all of West Virginia and just being there on this crisp, peaceful autumn morning was worth the long drive to get there.

10/08/2025

The Season of Change

Canaan Valley, 10/4/25

A myriad of colors, from the subtle transition of the ferns from their vivid greens not so long ago to now a burnt orange. Trees that have already lost their leaves and have gone dormant, and the vivid foliage of the maples now at their peak across the highlands, that will soon be lost until next spring in this season of change.

10/01/2025

I'm honored and excited that one of my photos, "The Beaver Dam", was one of 14 selected in the 2025 Cortland Acres photo contest for the main hallway exhibit at Cortland Acres nursing home in Thomas, WV. The prints will be unveiled and displayed at the Artober Fest at Timberline Resort in Canaan Valley this weekend.

I want to acknowledge and give my thanks to the Cortland Foundation for putting on this contest each year, and for all the work involved in judging the photos and preparing them for display.

09/27/2025

Images of the American Southwest

Monument Valley

When it comes to the desert southwest one of the most iconic locations is Monument Valley with its towering buttes and monoliths. It is located along the Utah-Arizona border and served as the backdrop for many old western films. The valley is considered sacred by the Navajo Nation, the Native American people within whose reservation it lies.

I took the black and white panoramic photo combining several images near Forrest Gump point, which is a popular tourist spot for everyone to get their selfies or portraits standing in the middle of highway 163 with the towering monuments in the background.
The color panoramic image was taken from the other direction facing east. Clouds made for some nice shadows in the late afternoon sky. The three buttes from left to right are the West Mitton Butte, East Mitton Butte, and Merrick Butte.

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