At long last, back on the road
In 2011 an opportunity arose for me to make a long-overdue road trip, to see & explore places around the United States that I had long wanted to visit. I set my sights on visiting New England, the Blue Ridge Parkway, and the Smoky Mountains, all while they should be exhibiting their full fall colors. After that, I would make my way west to visit some parks & sights of the Colorado Plateau in Utah – Bryce, Zion, Canyonlands, and others.
I spent much of the summer planning & preparing, gearing up and taking hiking day trips into the western edges of the North Cascades, to condition my legs for long hikes ahead. After a few months, and a few hundred miles on my new boots, I set out in my car, heading east. Having logged more than 12,000 miles on the road – and hiking more than 170 – I returned 42 days later.
Inside your DSLR
I was always a bit miffed with what I thought to be a slow shutter speed for my camera, and to find out that camera bodies often have a finite number of images they can snap before it is time to upgrade to a new one. Then I saw this.
Ask any mechanism to perform a quick, complex action many, many thousands of times, and of course it will deteriorate over time.
Out with the old, in with the new
When a website’s host suggest users backup their databases previous to moving servers, it’s a good idea to heed that advice. As a result of not following said advice, the previous version of this site & blog went kaput a while back, and remained offline for some time.
What you see before you is the result of rebuilding it from scratch – tailoring a theme to my tastes, adding scores of new work, and presenting it much larger & simpler than I had before. It took far too much time, perfectionist that I am, but I’m much happier with this incarnation than I was with the last.
Thank you for stopping by. I hope you see some work that you enjoy.