NANPA, New Mexico

The last 5 days have been spent at the NANPA photographic conference. The conference has been a lot of fun and I've meet many interesting and helpful people, not too mention learning heaps in the way of marketing.

Free time to update the blog has been very limited and unfortunately I am behind in posting images and listing areas visited immediately before NANPA. Hopefully, this will be rectified shortly if Internet is available.

Tomorrow I leave Albuquerque and make my way west to Bosque D' Apache for some bird work before driving to White Sands for landscape work. I'm not sure how long I'll spend in White Sands. After this I'll zap north east through New Mexico bound for Yellowstone National Park stopping at few iconic locations along the way.

United States of America

I have decided to visit the US again in January after only 4 months back in Australia since returning from Alaska.  It seems that every time I visit the US I say to myself this will be the last time, however, inexplicably I seem to return to the US.  America has an incredible diversity when it comes to landscapes and wildlife that I am continually drawn to.

My main reason was attend NANPA, however, the time allocated was soon extended until mid March to take advantage of shooting in a number of locations. Specifically, I was interested in photographing the Northern Elephant Seals and Sea Otters that inhabit northern California. I also was keen to shoot landscapes in the California and Arizona deserts, and spend some time in Yellowstone National Park photographing winter wildlife.

I am based in San Francisco for two weeks before leaving by four wheel drive to tackle the deserts camping. Following this I will attend NANPA and live in the luxury of a small motel room for 4 nights before pushing on to accomplish more desert photography and then two weeks in Yellowstone. A very long drive will then be undertaken back to San Francisco before flying out with QANTAS back to Hobart (hopefully my day job will still be there).