Bolivia Tour!

In cooperation with my brother's nonprofit organization (Shine-A-Light) Wild Imagination will be offering a unique tour of Bolivia this fall. This is a trip that will step well beyond normal tourism as we explore modern Aymara and Quechua culture, adventure to a remote community lodge in the Amazon and trek down ancient Inca trade routes. The trip will explore the major areas of the country, the Andes around La Paz, the Yungas region of the mid-elevations and the Amazon. Check out the web site HERE to find out more about the trip and why you should join us.

What I'm reading

My bookshelves are covered in photography books and with all due respect, a good portion of the how-to guides are crap. There are a few jewels in the rough, generally those that move past the technicalities and into the philosophy and the thought process of the artists. Galen Rowell's The Inner Game of Outdoor Photography and Phillipe L. Gross' The Tao of Photography: Seeing Beyond Seeing are perfect examples. These are the kinds of books that move beyon f-stop and depth of field to discuss how to see, find, and interpret images. In other words how to make your photography art.

Right now I'm reading another book that tried to blend, somewhat successfully, the art and the science of imagery. It is called The Photographer's Eye by Michael Freeman. I'm enjoying it overall. The text is well thought out and here I think, in that respect, he is on the right track, but I'm finding many of the images less than compelling. Then again, I'm not far into it and that may change. Perhaps I'll post a more detailed review at some point later.

Latest Incarnation

For those of you who have followed my blogs of the years (or tried to follow them as I inconsistently posted) this is the new Wild Imagination Photography Blog. In the previous versions of the journal, I've tried to stick to photography, my work, and writing. And I blame that limitation, at least in part, for my repeated and lengthy hiatuses from blogging. So this time, I'm not going to limit myself, at least not as much.

So for those of you who are sensitive to topics like politics, the environment, climate change, wilderness, technology, living off the grid, life, my adventures, and how I choose to trim my beard, then you'd best stay away.

To the rest of you: Welcome.