I originally wrote this article in 2013. So much has changed since then. I updated the article, mostly deleting tools that I once used that are now discontinued. I guess other people didn’t appreciate them
Glacier National Park is where my love affair with the National Parks began. This trip is the stick against which all of my other park trips are measured and all, thus far, have fallen short.
Shenandoah is the park in my backyard. Well, an hour and a half away, but it’s the park I’ve been to the most times and have had the most varied experience with. I’ve had the
Cuyahoga Valley is a different kind of national park. It is woven into the urban sprawl between Cleveland and Akron, OH. In many places, you can convince yourself that you are away from it all,
Great Smoky Mountains is the most heavily visited national park in the system with more than 1 million visitors per month in the busy season. My experience definitely confirmed that. I visited during the early
Congaree is the 15th National Park I’ve visited since 2012 and I hate to say it, but it is my least favorite experience so far. I didn’t set this trip up for success.
When I got my first DSLR, I got an 18-200mm lens with it. It didn’t take me long to realize that the wide-angle 18mm wasn’t wide enough for everything I wanted to do. So I
Since moving to Washington, DC I have taken a lot of pictures. After making the rounds at the monuments and memorials I started to get frustrated with how bright and blown out the skies were
Growing up, Theodore Roosevelt National Park was the park next door. I grew up in eastern North Dakota, a relatively short drive from the park. I moved away from North Dakota when I was 23,
Wind Cave is one of those parks that’s nobody’s primary destination. Well, that’s not true. According to a National Park Service survey, it is the primary destination for 3% of visitors. For me, it was
