Leaving Las Vegas? Why is this worthy of a blog? Have you ever felt you’ve been caught in some sort of weird time warp? Well, to start with, it takes us three days to escape Las Vegas, to wit the scene beyond the cage at the left. Yes, that is a cage, out of focus […]

Traveling between destinations has an annoying habit of cutting into photography and scouting time. Yesterday, with a long drive between Death Valley and Joshua Tree, while we arrived at a great time for photography, we also only graced the perimeter, so to speak, of the park. Today, we started out in the Cholla Cactus Garden. […]

It was time to leave Death Valley and head to Joshua Tree National Park to scout for next year’s alumni workshop. We left one desert, and crossed another, the Mojave. While the landscape changed, it was still desolate and awesome, especially when one thinks of early settlers crossing this vast area. I learned from my […]