Introduction

This little blog will, I hope, document my de-piping of a dream to do nature photography and writing for a living. I guess if the aforementioned hope bottoms out until the chassis rips off, it might be interesting all the same.

While reading about those who are doing or have done what I aspire toward, there are generally two types: 1) the ones who say the gist of, “I just started showing my work around and never had to look back,” and 2) the ones like Galen Rowell who said something to the effect that he found himself with boundless energy to send stories and photos and receive piles of rejection letters, or Tom Till who said in an interview he could have wallpapered his living room with rejections.

I like the latter for the drive and persistence it took those guys to get from doing what they wanted, to doing what they wanted for pay.

The first step was I quit my newspaper job (a chain of little weeklies) in March and hit the road. Spent a month in Arizona and Utah. Overall, 5,000 miles by car, 200 by foot, and 10,000 photos.

Here are a three of my favorites.