Never delete the other files...

I know I'm supposed to be posting all sorts of other stuff these days, but I guess I've been easily distracted for the past few weeks. The other day I was hunting through images from a trip to Arizona and Utah last year, and found the shots of Antelope Canyon. Now, you already know I'm obsessed with those red rocks...

The images I was looking through were the original RAW images, the backups, not the ones I'd processed and saved. This meant that there were originals of the images I'd liked and processed, but also a lot of images that, for various reasons, I hadn't liked at the time. And here I found the perfect example of why you should always, always, always save your original files:

Detail from Lower Antelope Canyon.

I've really fallen in love with this image. It brings back all the incredible excitement of shooting that amazing place, and the light is killer - it's like a picture of molten gold surrounded by bronze. It's all too easy to like your own shots, but with this one I can't help it and don't care! Gotta get back there one of these days. Soon.

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Fun in a parking lot

It was a bright sunny morning, the little stream looked cool and inviting, there were birds tweeting - no, not that sort of tweeting - and I had a camera. What's a girl to do?

Believe it or not, this was a parking lot in the middle of the Mojave desert. As you'll see, it was a nice parking lot, as these things go. Palm trees, the aforementioned burbling brook, and lots of birdies. It was all good clean fun - although I did have to dodge a dive-bombing pigeon.

There were lots of these guys - cheeky, chirpy, and all playing hard to get.

"Damn paparazzi - can't a bird take a bath in peace?"

Maybe the birds were getting to me, or maybe I just have natural magpie instincts: I was fascinated by the sparklies - I mean, the play of light on the water's surface.

In other news, I hope to have a couple of new galleries up on the website very soon.

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