2023 – Early February – Grand Canyon NP

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Image captions note the locations where the images were taken.

Maricopa Point

After a several hour drive from Kingman, AZ, we stop in Ash Fork, AZ to stretch our legs.  The first place we see is the Ash Fork Historical Society Museum.  We enjoy visiting museums, so we stopped.  A volunteer welcomes us, “This is a hands-on museum.”  “Feel free to sit with the characters playing cards, try on the fire fighting gear, and sit in the old car.”  I can’t remember if it was a model T or A.  We have a great time doing ‘hands-on’  We spend an hour looking, then another half hour listening to our docent tell stories of the area.  It’s a great little local museum to visit.

2023 – Early February – Death Valley NP

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Mesquite Flat Dunes

Our destination is Death Valley National Park.  Last year, we spotted openings for Gary Hart’s Death Valley photography workshop, it fills fast, within a couple days of it opening.   We jump on it immediately.  A couple years ago we attended his Yosemite Valley workshop.  We enjoy attending his workshops, in our eyes, he is an outstanding landscape photographer.  Gary shares his knowledge, teaching us to plan our shots then, applying it to our own photography.  Between shooting sessions, we have group image critiques, we see everybody’s selected image, then learn ways to look at them differently, possibly improving them.