We spent some time camping out West making some scenic imagery for ourselves while en route to a wedding in Southwest Colorado. We started in New Mexico and worked our way over 1300 miles in a not-so-square tour through the four corners region.

Part of our goal was to get away from all the digital technology and shoot some black and white film, a good exercise in slowing the process down a bit. It’s also nice to really take in the surroundings instead of worrying about histograms and finding power or a cell signal. The West has always been an easy muse and for us it was no different.

We camped the first night on Navajo Tribal Land near Chinle, Arizona. After photographing Canyon de Chelly, we moved north to Moab, Utah and spent a couple days and nights exploring Arches National Park. Arches was the most notable and visual of the places we lingered. Even the campground there was gorgeous.

Once in Colorado we hit one of the hottest sushi spots we’ve ever been to with our friend Brett Butterstein, his wife Mandy and their two little kiddos in Durango. If you think there is no such thing as good sushi in a place so far from the ocean, you haven’t been to East by Southwest.

Our last tour was through northern New Mexico where we visited an earthship housing development completely off the grid, took a quick buzz through Taos, and set up camp in the Cimarron Canyon State Park just in time to watch nine deer grazing for their dinner. We woke up early the next morning, picked a tick off of Eric, went directly to the airport, and got upgraded on our return flight. Hopefully no one in first class was able to pin the camp fire smell on us.

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