The Death Valley workshop starts Thursday.  I’m heading out tomorrow (Sunday) for a little pre-workshop activity.  I’ll let you know how it went when I get back.

I checked the weather forecast and, while it’s going to be hot the first of the week (with temperatures flirting with 100) a storm front is forecast to move through about the time the workshop starts.  Let’s hope for some good Galen Rowell weather.

I print my photographs using Image Print on my Epson 4800.  It’s a great RIP with terrific ICC profiles for tons and tons of papers.  And it solves one of the most distressing problems with the 4800.  If you want to switch between matte and glossy or luster papers you have to replace the Matte Black ink cartridge with the Photo Black cartridge.  When you do this the printer purges the lines for ALL 8 cartridges, wasting about $75 worth of ink. 

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I see you look at me, walk up and touch me.  You set up your fancy camera gear and then sit down on our Mother Earth.  I see you become very quite.  I know what you are feeling.  “This is a sacred place.”  The moon has risen.  The darkening sky behind us has bathed us in all the colors of the rainbow; just the blues and purples remain now for a few more moments before night covers us both.

See the moon.  Here, I’ll point it out to you with my branches.  We are eternal, at least from your fleeting point of view.  When you were born I was here on this rocky slope, greeting the moon just as we did this day.  When you go back to your camp I will be here all night in the company of the moon.  When the winter snows come and the cold mountain winds blow, I will still be here in this thin air as I have been for thousands of winters.  When you and your children and your children’s children have all departed, the sun and the moon and the stars and our Mother Earth and I will still be here.

Bristlecone Moon

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Here are more developments in the Schulman Grove Visitor Center file.

http://www.inyoregister.com/content/view/119017/27/

http://www.ksrw.sierrawave.net/site/content/view/1346/48/

The Schulman Grove Visitor Center in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine forest was destroyed by fire on Sept 4th of this year.

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