City of Rock-Photo Safari-Fall 2018 City of Rocks holds a number of different photo safaris throughout the year. I was lucky enough to get into the fall safari. The staff gives you technical training on your camera, how to get off the default settings and answers questions while you’re shooting.

This year, for our vacation, I took my family back to the Midwest to see where I grew up and meet some relatives that they had never met. We had a great time driving around Lake Michigan, thru Wisconsin and exploring the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, including Pictured Rocks National

For Spring break this year, we decided to pack up the car and head to the Oregon Coast and then onto Bend, OR. On our way home to Idaho we also stopped at John Day Painted Hills.

This was my second trip to Anthony Lakes.  The first was a snowshoe trip that will probably be posted at a later date.  It was a typical fall Memorial day weekend in 2008, warm days and chilly nights.  This trip was the first time I met the boy who would become my

I’ve always been fascinated by the Tetons and have photographed them many times.  This was the first time I had a “real” camera and explored the park with child’s eyes.  I’ll probably end up posting photos of different trips but to me this set seems to set the bar for

This was our trip to Banff in Alberta Canada.  These pictures were all taken around Lake Louise, a popular destination that we explored one day.  We looked around at The Fairmont Chateau which is a very nice Chateau right on the lake.  It’s a good sized lake with turquoise water from glacier run

This was a trip that I took with my wife to Crater Lake Oregon.  You can’t camp at Crater Lake but you can camp nearby at Diamond Lake.  We went on this trip at the end of June 2013.  Mosquitoes were thick as could be but the sunsets were beautiful.

This trip was my first time out of North America. I had run into a friend at a class reunion who was working on a novel. She was looking to put together a group of people to travel to Africa and climb Mt. Kilimanjaro to help her prepare and research