From 1975 to 1978 he worked in Santa Fe, as printing assistant to Eliot Porter, widely respected for his large-format color work, especially of nature. Bones’ other books include Texas Earth Surfaces (1970), Texas Wild (1976) Texas West of the Pecos (1981), Rio Grande, Mountains to the Sea (1985), Texas, Images of the Landscape (1986), A long View Southwest (2013). Encino Press of Austin, Texas, has published two portfolios of Bones’ handmade dye-transfer prints, A Texas Portfolio (1977) and A Wildflower Portfolio (1978).