Peering into the skylight.

In a rare chance to explore more of Arizona I made it up to Sedona to hike in a river. I’d say along – but for the most of it I was hopping from boulder to rock to tree spanning the river to boulder (while precariously carrying my equipment). It was all good fun times and I was able to grab this shot while standing in the middle of the river on a very small rock with water splashing at my feet. At least only my socks were wettened in the making of picture.

It’s been a bit since I’ve posted up an image so I guess its time to do it again.

I’ve been amazed at how the desert changes throughout the year from drab to drab to drab to color to drab…etc. Occasionally, during those colorful moments, there is something worth looking at. Hopefully I captured it.

Pretty much just as suggested. It was 2am, and I thought “This could be fun!” So…here it is:

Ah, the joys of completely forgetting about the blog for a month. You’d think I have a plethora of pictures to show – but I don’t. Just a few.

This image comes from hiking at Bell Rock in the Coconino National Forest. I kind of like how a tree is randomly growing out of a rock.

So, I’m going to another school for more education and will eventually curse the decision up until I get the piece of paper that says “Dr. Champion”. But – until then I should have some pretty awesome desert pictures over the next few years.

This picture is actually of my new school. I thought the concept and design of the school was really interesting and I think this makes an awesome scene.

Over the years I’ve collected a lot of images. And I mean just gigs and gigs. Its been roughly estimated that I have at least a terabytes’ worth laying around here. Unfortunately most of it stays on my computer. But, tonight I diligently decided to purge old images and move them to one of my external hard drives. (With redundant off-site backup! Not that naïve.) It’s actually amazing what I’ve previously decided wasn’t worth editing, and what I’ve said “Oh…I’ll come back to that”. Well, I also took the time to peruse through these older images. I found one, not that old – but still one of those “Oh…I’ll come back to that” and edited it up. I always meant to go back to that shoot, and now I finally did. I like to call them reclaimed images. Whenever I do this, I usually toss off the original idea I had for the image and go about it in a different way – I think it worked.

Over the next few days, I’m sure I’ll go through a bunch more with probably only an additional edit or two.

I’m also equally amazed at what I thought was a good shoot, only to have it still look like utter junk.