I’ve been enjoy­ing my time with the elk lately quite a bit more. By this last trip, I have learned where they can usu­ally be found in the park, pro­vided it’s not too cold, so I am able to get set up early enough that tourists don’t harass them before I get my shots. I’m hop­ing to get some much more inter­est­ing shots before i stop chas­ing them entirely. Rutting, bugling, and so on. Behavioral shots, basically.

I have decided that every­thing I do right now is prepa­ra­tion for me becom­ing the most bad ass travel pho­tog­ra­pher pos­si­ble. Photography is part of it, but so is phys­i­cal and men­tal con­di­tion­ing. My diet isn’t just to lose weight for no rea­son, it’s to be in bet­ter con­di­tion so as to travel to exotic places. I’m build­ing up a work­out plan as well. I need to be tough to do this job.

This is my cur­rent goal in life. It doesn’t exclude my goal of SF/F writer, but it’s tak­ing pri­or­ity. You can expect this blog to be heav­ily slanted in that nature for the imme­di­ate future anyway.