J.R.R. Tolkien once wrote that "Not all those who wander are lost." I used to know exactly how long I had been wandering with my camera and enjoying photography. That number, along with my age, is becoming more difficult to remember. I pay the bills as a hydrogeologist, a job that takes me to various places around the globe. All the people I've met in far flung places have long come to expect that I will wander off with my camera after the day's work is done, and my wonderful wife understands that the car may suddenly stop as we travel. Photography is like the treasure hunt that never ends.

"And when the dawn-wind stirs through the ancient cottonwoods, and the gray light steals down from the hills over the old river sliding softly past its wide brown sandbars -- what if there be no more goose music."

Aldo Leopold, 1949