The Friends of Arizona Highways Grand Canyon river trip photo workshop ended on September 24. For ten glorious days we traveled with Arizona Raft Adventures as our outfitter. As always, it was a magnificent experience with a dozen great participants, four terrific guides, (mostly) great weather, and unusual luck at getting the campsites we desired. It's a difficult choice but I think I enjoy these photography-based river trips more than any other river trips--maybe even private river trips--because the entire group is fully focused on squeezing the most out of every moment. Little time is wasted dawdling around camp. And the Grand Canyon, along the river in mid-September, is just incredibly photogenic. Thanks to everyone, the Friends of Arizona Highways, AZRA, the participants, Grand Canyon National Park, and the canyon itself, for making such a wonderful experience possible.

Summer of 2006 to September, 2007

Well, obviously, I haven't been much as a blogger in the past year. So, to catch up a little, here's some of what's happened:

 

Last October was notable in that I broke my left fibula in an inexplicable fall while hiking along the edge of Lake Powell. I was trying to get back to a houseboat before darkness set in. Moving too fast, I suppose. (The images made at sunset, only a few minutes before the stumble, almost made the accident worthwhile. Almost, almost, anyway.) Fortunately the fracture was clean and simple, and I was back at full speed by February.

 

Spring was busy with photo trips, Elderhostel classes, Grand Circle Field School trips and backpacking trips with friends in Grand Canyon and in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Summer zipped by while I spent most of my time in my home office writing--working on articles, a book project, writing captions for 4x5 and 35mm transparencies. One result of spending so much time in front of the computer: the addition of a few pounds of blubber.

 

To shed the pounds, among other things, I'm about to begin three months of trips: Grand Canyon river trip, many Lake Powell trips with Grand Circle Field School, Hidden Canyon Kayaks, the Friends of Arizona Highways. Nothing terribly exciting. I just continue to work on images of my two favorite terrains, Glen Canyon and Grand Canyon.

 

My self-published book, Page, Arizona, Hub of the Visual Universe, released a little over a year ago, has gone into a second printing. (It's available on this website.) With luck my book published by Grand Canyon Association, tentatively titled Grand Canyon Views Beyond the Beauty: A Guide to What's Down There, will come out in late spring or early summer.