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I'm heading to Covington, KY to present my one day Photoshop for Photographers seminar. If you're interested in attending, the seminar is from 10am until 5 pm on August 29th (that's this Tuesday) at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center and the price is $99 for a full day of training.
I spend about four hours yesterday exploring the Wahweap hoodoos. If you ever find yourself near Page, AZ, be sure to stop by the local Bureau of Land Management info center to learn how to find these hoodoos. I'd love to go back and shoot them again.
Fellow RVers John (pictured above with his RV) and Mandy have put together a great free web site that describes many of the places to visit in the U.S. Southwest. They give a great amount of detail, many photos, and some great maps. If you plan to visit the Southwest, then be sure to visit this site to get some ideas.
I've been hanging out near Page, AZ for the last few days. I explored the Wave two days ago and it was awesome! It takes a 1.5 to 2 hour hike to get there and there is very little shade to shield you from the 95°+ afternoon heat. I started my trek at around 6:30am and didn't make it back to the car until 2:30pm and that wasn't enough time. The only reason I left before sunset was because someone told me that there was a 60% chance for a thunderstorm and the road becomes impassible after a rain. I'm glad I left when I did because I had just enough water to last the time I was out there.
In order to get into The Wave, you must get a permit. You have two choices; 1) sign up for a permit 7 months in advance (only 10 are available for each day), or 2) show up the day before you want to explore the wave and hope that no more than 10 people show up, otherwise they'll have a lottery to determine who gets a permit.
I'll be heading back to the Wave tomorrow. This time I'm going to start the hike in the afternoon and hang out until after sunset. My new GPS will be essential since it would be rather difficult to find my way out without being able to see landmarks far in the distance.
Right now I'm headed to Horseshoe Bend to scout for locations for tomorrow's sunrise and then will be exploring Alstom Point at sunset.
I've left Las Vegas and am currently exploring Zion National Park in Utah. Once I move on from this location, I plan to visit The Wave, Antelope Canyon, Monument Valley and more. I have just shy of two weeks before I have to return to Las Vegas to fly out and present one of my Photoshop for Photographers seminars in Kovington, KY. My next event after that will be PhotoshopWorld Las Vegas.
Next week I'll be attempting to record another Photoshop instructional DVD... we'll see how that goes with my current setup. I think I'll have to turn off my air conditioning just to make sure the noise it not picked up in the recording.
Update: In my last Digital Nomad post, I mentioned that I'd be adding a satellite dish to the bus. I decided to wait on that because I found out that they were about to release the next version of the hardware and I didn't want to end up with an out of date model. I haven't found an installer who have the newest hardware yet, so I'll do with out satellite internet for a while.
Sony just announced a little $150 device that will tag all the photos you take with GPS location data. It works by recording your position and time of day and then matching up the date stamp on each of your photos. I've been wanting something like this ever since I started to shoot digitally and am amazed that GPS is not included on most higher-end digital cameras.
I'm back from Hawaii and will be spending this week getting the bus modified and catching up things. I had a great time on Maui and will be returning to teach another 5-day hands-on class there in March.
Here's a partial list of the things I plan to change on the bus this week:
Next week I'll he flying to Texas for a corporate training event and then I'll start exploring a few more National Parks.
