This is the first entry of my shorter, more frequent blog postings.  I'm hoping to do this several times and week, and hope it will allow a look behind the curtain at professional nature photography.  Don't worry, as someone did, that it will just be,"I saw a rock today." I hope I can get it above that level.

For instance,  for the first time in a long time I have some free days in my schedule, and I'm filling them up with what I hope will be good photographic opportunities.  This goes with thinking about photography night and day.  I thought this ocd might lessen as I got older, but it doesn't seem to.

Also, it's the key, I think to the success in a very competitive business, or art form, or endeavor, that I've had.  It's also the key to longevity in photography, or perhaps anything else.  So many good photographers have come and gone, and the recession has stilled many of their cameras. Why do I trudge on when others don't?

It's simple, I like to walk around outdoors. I tell people often that hiking is my real job.  I still after 35 years,  and I'm not exaggerating, am pinching myself that I get to live in Moab and I can make a good living here. My response to this love is to take my camera out and work.  When I'm working,  time is gone.  Hours can pass that seem like minutes.  Any worries and cares are gone.  Why wouldn't I keep wanting to return to this state of mind?

Well. I didn't mean to go all Sedona on you, so I'll end with a personal note. I am a television man as David Byrne said.  I believe the best drama now is not in movies, or even the stage, but on television. Right now I'm wrapped up in Breaking Bad.  Wow is all I can say,  and the Southwestern flavor of it is doubly intriguing.