Hal Gould His Vision of the West

* What: Images by the veteran photographer

* Where and when: Byers- Evans House Gallery, 1310 Bannock St.; through March 31

* Good as Gould: Apparently, simpatico minds find each other, especially when it comes to those who champion photography.

While RedLine founder Laura Merage long had been pondering a major show of work by photography guru Hal Gould, collector and advocate Paul Harbaugh was thinking the same thing, but as an installation for the relatively new gallery at the Byers-Evans House, across the street from Gould's respected Camera Obscura, 1309 Bannock St.

The Gould mini-retrospective covers some of the same territory as the exhibition at RedLine, including Gould's commercial work and portraiture.

But the focus is on Gould's 60-year visual love affair with the West.

Gould was born in 1920 in Wyoming and has traveled the world, but singular scenes in New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana and Colorado form the bulk of the exhibition, including a dramatic 1998 piece from his Bristlecone Pine series, vintage 1954 views of Taos Pueblo and tepees in Montana, and a majestic 1986 shot of Ship Rock in New Mexico.

It's a trip well worth taking.

* Information: 303-620-4933; www.coloradohistory.org/be