Travel & Landscapes

You learn a lot about yourself when you travel, whether its across the country for days and weeks or even a simple one day trip out to somewhere new. You often hear people say the best photographs are the ones that were hard to get but I would argue the best photos you will ever take are the ones you look at and they vividly remind you of that moment.

The third image in this gallery, a sunrise silhouette of the Four Peaks mountain range is an example of this. While technically its a decent photo it wasn’t hard to pull off or get to. A drive up the mountain to a lookout parking lot was all it took. The reason the photo stands out to me is because I remember getting there with the intention of photographing downtown Phoenix from the top of the lookout and every photo I took I was just not happy with so I stopped and sat down on a rock to just watch the sunrise instead. As I was sitting there staring at the mountains I realized “oh shit that’s the photo!” so I rushed to grab my camera and turn it back on and shot that final image. That photo reminds me that opportunities are everywhere if you are willing to see them.