Saguaros of Arizona
The Southern part of Arizona is home to the Sonoran desert and the famous Saguaro cactus. These huge grandfathers of the desert are quite impressive, some of them standing more than 10 meters tall age...
View ArticleDays on the road
It is 1.30 am and I find myself in Moab, Utah. And it is probably a bad time for blogging but sleep escapes me tonight. I went to bed at 00.15am and then proceeded to have a strange dream and woke up...
View ArticleWeek of Wonders
It has been a wonderful week of photography and I have been especially lucky with the light and weather. I was at Grand Canyon just as a snow storm hit. As the 3 hour storm moved on, the sun returned...
View ArticleA little less tech a little more art
A personal rant. Running around all these National Parks here in the US with a camera and tripod one meets and talks to a lot of other photographers. I guess as in all things life, some are great...
View ArticleAbstract Antelope Canyons
It has been another week of wonders. From driving a Jeep Wrangler with big off road tires to the otherworldly ethereal Playa Racetracks in Death Valley to following in the footsteps of John Muir, Ansel...
View ArticleI've gone to look for America
Stealing titles as I often do, this one is of course Simon & Garfunkel aptly describing this post. Like a lot of people, I grew up with American movies and TV shows and I was excited to finally...
View ArticleGrand Canyon Karma
I am not a religious man. I believe in science. I must admit to also becoming a believer in karma despite or perhaps because of the occasional boomerang effect of overdosing. Also; I am a believer in...
View ArticleThe Edge of a Horseshoe
Into the Abyss I am feeling remarkably alive as I sit cross-legged on the edge of a lethal drop. A drop straight into the Colorado river, running through the meander known as Horseshoe Bend in Arizona,...
View ArticleCatch a few beams at Antelope Canyons
“I count 5 or 6 slot canyon images in the gallery, do they sell well, the customers love them that much?” I ask.“Ehh well…I think it’s just as much Peter that really loves them!” I am informed by the...
View ArticleMonument Valley
“Yá’át’ééh”. Pronounced yaateh it is ‘hello’ in Navajo explains my Navajo guide Tom. I am such a huge Star Wars nerd I immediately think ‘cool that is what Princess Leia disguised as a bounty hunter...
View ArticleMy Own Private America
“I wish this road would go on forever”. I thought that many a time on my road trip in America last year. I quite often still drive around the back roads of New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada and...
View ArticleThe Road
I am driving in the desert. Just driving. The road runs straight as an arrow to infinity. Makes me feel safe. Feel less. The desolate nothingness is overwhelming and pleasingly numbing. Calms the...
View ArticleWanderer
“Mad and Magic Raving is a little bit different. It takes an otherwise impossible set of parameters, the space-time continuum and all the universe to warp in a certain way, and a bloody great friend...
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