Highways and dirt tracks

I haven't done much the past couple of days. We went out to Lake Pleasant on Sunday to take some pictures. A nice off road drive which I filmed... it was quite fun except someone thought I was driving whilst doing it! Whilst driving to Lake Pleasant we stopped on a highway and walked toward the lake, but still quite far out, and took some pictures. There's cacti everywhere. It will take some time getting used to. I am used to being able to just walk anywhere. Got a couple of pictures but they didn't turn out so good, but I had taken pictures of the highway before so at least I had something. I also drove for a while which was fun. It was odd at first but you soon get used to it, but what I am not used to is Kristin telling me to take a left right at the very last second to pull in and get some petrol.

Yesterday was just a day preparing for the 3 day road trip. Going to the Walnut Canyon, Grand Canyon and Paria Slot Canyons...

America

So I actually arrived in the USA yesterday. 12 hours ago. It was such an experience getting here. I got to Manchester Airport to find I needed a visa waiver form. Was a little odd because I went through the whole visa site before I left and it wasn't as clear as it should've been. I managed to get on in the airport but it cost me $14! What a rip off. The flights went well. Both were on time and arrived at the places early and even though I was flying standby, I managed to get window seats both times. The first flight wasn't so scenic until we arrived in Philadelphia, which by the way, is really quite nice. So many trees in such a big city. I could easily live there. The flight to Phoenix was so much better. Apparently we flew over the rockies. I was not impressed if they were actually the rockies. They looked tiny at 30,000 feet.

My first night was a good one. I went to Kristins sisters house with some junk food to be bombarded with questions about where I am from and my accent. Oh and what England is like. It was quite fun. Eating the half a cow I had in a burger was a trial though. I don't think I will be eating again for a few days!

Weekend and more

This weekend didn't go as planned. I spent most of it just pottering about and doing nothing much. Had planned to process some more photographs for idiotbox but I never got round to it. I did one on Friday.

I learnt a few new techniques during post processing and then photoshop. Was quite fun. The tutorial I used can be found here.

Finally managed to do some other photographs too that I cannot release yet. Will not be long though.

5 days till America...I literally cannot wait.

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IdiotBox and Jade

Well this is my first post in my brand new blog to run along side my new website. Hopefully I can keep up with it and not let it die a long slow horrible death, like with previous attempts. Ha!

Today was such a busy day. I had an idiotbox shoot this morning at the Bradford Playhouse. It didn't go to plan. So many problems and in the end, I weren't that inspired. Probably due to my being ill and not giving the idea much thought. Got a couple of good shots that I haven't managed to process yet. Thanks to Vicky , Kate for helping me find her and Will.

After a busy morning, it turned into a busy afternoon and evening. Spent all of it with Jade going through images and co-processing some too. Turned out with a really good one too, which can be seen on my website. www.csphotographer.co.uk