I’ve returned to working on more of my images from last Fall’s trip. This time, I decided to select a folder that only had a date, unsure of what precisely lie within, to choose my images to develop and then post. I was surprised at what I found - material enough for two posts! One post I knew I would do the day I was photographing the images (the subject of the next post), but the other set (this post) came as a surprise.

Things don’t always pan out the way you hope. Especially when it comes to a creative endeavor. SPOILER ALERT: you’ll find no flashes of brilliance in this blog post. On the positive side, there are more photographs than the last one, and a lot fewer words! So come join us at one of the most incredible landscapes we’ve come across.

If you haven’t noticed, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about photography lately as I work my way through last year’s fall trip images (hard to think that it’s been over a year). This is the first of two posts, if things work out, thinking about what is landscape photography and am I a “landscape photographer.”

Sometimes you have to work to find an image. Other images, well, they slap you across the face, screaming to be made. Kind of like Tommy Lee Jones (Agent K) in Men in Black, screaming to the giant cockroach “Eat me! EAT ME!!!!” Except in my case, it’s, “Shoot me, shoot me!!!” Today’s image is one of the latter.

Given the tension of the past few days, I decided to select a simple image that will hopefully bring some stillness to your lives, if even for only a few moments. As Charlie, Joe and probably a million other photographers have said, “What photographer can resist a good tree?” I know I can’t.

No, Ann and I haven’t managed to get out for a serious photo session in Portugal, but that doesn’t keep us from drawing on old themes for a blog post. This one comes from last Fall’s trip to Goblin Valley State Park in Utah, a place you really should visit if you’re ever out that way.