35mm film from the pnw and beyond.

"when you're traveling, you are what you are right then and there." –william least heat-moon, blue highways

"if delicate arch has any significance it lies, i will venture, in the power of the odd and unexpected to startle the senses and surprise the mind out of their ruts of habit, to compel us into a reawakened awareness of the wonderful––that which is full of wonder. a weird, lovely, fantastic object out of nature like delicate arch has the curious ability to remind us––like rock and sunlight and wind and wilderness––that 'out there' is a different world, older and greater and deeper by far than ours, a world which surrounds and sustains the little world of men as sea and sky surround and sustain a ship. the shock of the real. for a little while we are again able to see, as the child sees, a world of marvels. for a few moments we discover that nothing can be taken for granted, for if this ring of stone is marvelous then all which shaped it is marvelous, and our journey here on earth, able to see and touch and hear in the midst of tangible and mysterious things-in-themselves, is the most strange and daring of all adventures." –edward abbey, desert solitaire