It’s been another busy week but one filled with good news. Not least of which was that the above photo of Native American dancers at the Cortez Cultural Center in Colorado earned me the “Photographer of the Year” award from the Central States Chapter of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW). Thanks, folks!
All good [...]

Sorry for my absence this week but it’s been hectic to say the least. I’ll (hopefully) appease you with another weather shot from our stay on Mt. Magazine in Arkansas last weekend.
While we were away, the sellers lowered the price on the house we had had our eye on. We already knew about the lower [...]

All during dinner I was watching the weather outside the windows of the dining room of the Mount Magazine Lodge as the clouds descended. Storms are moving past to the north and tornados have been spotted in the area of Ozark, Arkansas. It looks like the most severe weather will miss us but it’s still [...]

Scott Riddle, of Riddle’s Elephant & Wildlife Sanctuary, takes in elephants that would otherwise have difficulties finding homes and gives them a great life here in northern Arkansas. These are amazing animals, highly intelligent, and it’s great that there are people like the Riddle’s looking after them.

The predicted severe weather held off long enough for a great afternoon at Crater of Diamonds State Park near Murfreesboro, Arkansas. Their website calls it, “the only diamond-producing site in the world open to the public”. You can pay a small fee and use either your own or rented equipment to become a treasure hunter [...]

I’m often on a tight schedule when shooting and that’s not always a good thing. Yesterday, I had the luxury of getting into Little Rock fairly early so that I cold scout some things that I would be shooting during my stay here. Foremost among those was the Clinton Presidential Library. My scouting shot is [...]

On the road again. Spent some time yesterday at the beautiful Coleman Theatre in Miami, Oklahoma, shooting interiors and exteriors. There’s some great stuff backstage — old light boards, organ pipes and 1920’s-style dressing rooms. Lots of fun.
On to Arkansas…