One of the questions I most frequently receive is “How are you able to afford to take a year off to travel, mess around, and not work?” One of the (basically) homeless, alcoholic retirees living on the shores of Lake Mead near Las Vegas put it as such: “Oh, his daddy’s got money, that’s how he’s out here traveling…” Some …
Star trail photo using the Sony NEX-6, the Sony Time-lapse Camera App, and the Startrails.de image stacking software. Lessons learned and other insights.
It’s a pretty simple message: “Stop buying things and start doing things.” Our culture centers around consumption. We buy certain brands or certain types of items for the status and recognition that we think it construes. We buy bigger houses, only to fill them with more things. Even our standard of living tends to be conflated with the GDP measurement of the …
I spent the past few weeks exploring southwest Utah: from Zion National Park to Bryce Canyon (we even got snow!), to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. There is some amazingly surreal and sublime scenery throughout this area, and while I wasn’t doing any climbing, I was having a blast just exploring these new areas that I’d never been. Through Twitter, I …
Back when I was living in Ouray, Colorado, I was contacted by a writer with the Blue Ridge Outdoors magazine about doing an interview and being featured in their publication. Well, the magazine finally hit the newsstands in May, and the online copy went live as well! Kind of fun! 🙂 Nothing earth shattering from me in the interview, but …
A behind the scenes analysis of my shot of the Watchman along the Virgin River in Zion National Park, including composition and post processing.
An ice climbing buddy from Ouray reached out to me about doing some peak bagging as I made my way to settle down in Joshua Tree National Park. Colin was back living in San Diego and suggested we make a day trip out in the Mount San Jacinto Wilderness to go climbing San Jacinto and Cornell Peak which towers 10,000 …
The great state of Arizona is perhaps one of the best states for a long, meandering road trip, with incredible scenery varied geography, and plenty to see. Here’s where I went over the course of a few weeks on my Arizona road trip. After passing through New Mexico, I spent a number of weeks exploring the great state of Arizona. …