Traveling between destinations has an annoying habit of cutting into photography and scouting time. Yesterday, with a long drive between Death Valley and Joshua Tree, while we arrived at a great time for photography, we also only graced the perimeter, so to speak, of the park. Today, we started out in the Cholla Cactus Garden. […]

It was time to leave Death Valley and head to Joshua Tree National Park to scout for next year’s alumni workshop. We left one desert, and crossed another, the Mojave. While the landscape changed, it was still desolate and awesome, especially when one thinks of early settlers crossing this vast area. I learned from my […]

The night before, we took a consensus of where people wanted to go for their last shoot. Traditionally, we visit one location twice, either to see it at a different time of day or to continue to find more photographs where we ran out of time in the previous session at the location. They wanted […]