All of Coconino National Forest is closed to all non-authorized users due to excessive fire danger and the half dozen fires already burning which required me to call on last week’s challenge—create in my own backyard—as I endeavored to complete this week’s photo assignment; Front/back/side/soft lighting my subject. “You can’t take a bad photo in Gr...

Thanks to recent rains the forests around Flagstaff are open again for recreating. I head up the mountain to scout for my upcoming Flagstaff fall photography retreat and to play with aperture among the aspens. The day is warm and mostly sunny. The canopy of tall pines and aspens sways in the breeze but on the forest floor I can feel only the occasi...

Hello and welcome back to my blog! I hope you will be just as stoked reading it as I am writing it! Reflecting on why I love to photograph and share my images I came up with what are essentially selfish reasons; expression and validation of self. These are not inherently unwholesome motivations. They are uniquely and beautifully human. They are, h...

*tap tap tap* Is this thing on? We're recording? Oh, ok. Here we go... Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to my second attempt at blogging. The sound of the word itself is analogous to how I feel about the whole idea which might explain why I never got it off the ground the first time. Thinking about what to blog about is a bit like slogging through a...