Last Sunday Ann and I decided to revisit some more images from our previous travels in anticipation of our upcoming trip.  I decided to develop from scratch and then print a couple of images from Devil’s Garden, one of my favorite places and one we’ll be returning to on this trip as well.  Ann was more broad in her thinking and decided to include an image from our Redwoods trip - definitely not a stop we’ve planned for our next adventure.

Ann and I are still refining ideas for our fall trip (Hayden Valley in Yellowstone??) and, of course, some of that involves revisiting our images from previous trips (well, more for Ann than me given the number of things on my plate and her being productive while I’m working . . . ).  In her reviews (which have also produced a number of re-found images!) she came across a shooting the shooter image from our last trip to Snow Canyon.  And that, they say, has the makings of a blog post.

What’s in a name?  It’s often a curious question and sometimes you’re surprised when you find out.  Then again, some names you really don’t want to know the background of and, because of some residual juvenile hang-up (some may say juvenile inner personality), you really have no desire to visit.  Take for instance, every time I’ve seen a “Mosquito Lake” on a map, I’ve had no desire to explore there.  Well, Ann and I have been spending a lot of time on YouTube and Google Earth (as well as paper maps) exploring potential places we’d like to live (well, more scout out in January to see if we would like to live there).  And it was during one of those sessions that I was reminded of just how juvenile I can be.

I know it’s a bit pathetic to kind of re-do images, but this isn’t quite that.  When I was teaching photography, one of the exercises I would give my students, usually before they really had a chance to make photographs of their own, was to pick out a photograph (or two, or three) and try to see how many different images within that one image they could find.  That exercise helps to think about things like framing, composition, what to include in and outside of images.  It doesn’t work for all photographs, but when it works well, it’s a fantastic exercise.  Well, Ann and I had our own little visual exercise this week.