Finding the way to tell your story How hard could a book be? I’d been writing for four or five years, published a hundred stories on Medium, even collected a few thousand readers. People had been asking me for a while, “When are you going to write a book?” But…

The Lincoln Highway runs through the emptiness of Nevada for 381 miles give or take with only a handful of stops along the way. There are eight or nine towns, a park or two, and mile after mile of two-lane road. …

There’s no question that Middlegate Station has the best burgers for fifty miles and not just because there isn't another restaurant for fifty miles. …

Once it was the seventies and we were young and beautiful, much as you are now. — To me, it still felt like the sixties. Money and drugs flowed freely, there didn’t seem to be any price for unlimited sex and I was still looking for a party. Jerry Brandt came to LA promising to supply one.

At 9000 feet the light is fierce. Black is a dark hole you can’t see into, white blazes brighter than the eye can comprehend. This is light that challenges even the best cameras and surprises me all the time. My body craves continuous small-scale stimulation and in this, I don’t think…

A book just lays there until someone shows it to the world — So you’ve finished your book. Getting there has been the goal but now you’ve arrived. Congratulations, time to celebrate and take a breath because a new and unknown part is about to begin — getting your book out into the world. ‘Cause, even though it’s finished, a book lays there…

At 81, I’ve been on the planet a long time, and life has kept me busy the whole way. I’ve been a troublemaker and a problem solver, worked on crappy movies you may have heard of … and a few famous ones too. I’ve been an inventor, a hippie living…

Is it even possible? For years the idea of landscape photography was to put your camera on a tripod, frame very carefully, then wait for the light to be perfect before you shot. But what if you had to do everything in exactly the opposite way? Recently I traveled from…

Thanks for the song lyric Woody Guthrie even if my traveling lately has been more pleasurable than hard. — Back in August, my wife and I set out for Great Basin National Park to experience the dark skies it’s famous for. On the way there we stopped in a tiny general store and there I found a business card for a most unlikely photographer — which led me to…