PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER BRENT PAULL PHOTOGRAPHING A FLY AGARIC MUSHROOM AT THE FISCALINI RANCH PRESERVE OUTSIDE OF CAMBRIA, CA ON THE MORNING OF JANUARY 9, 2024. A California Photo Safari With a Little Rock Art Thrown In For Good Measure Prologue ..read more

APPROACHING CRAB SHELTER HIGH ABOVE THE DEVIL'S RIVER ON THE MORNING OF SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2023. Devil’s River Delights– A Quick Trip To The Trans-Pecos Prologue… Over the years I have been on a number of SHUMLA Treks, and have visited many of the rock art sites in the Trans-Pecos Region of Texas. In December of 2022 I noticed that SHUMLA was planning a trek to two sites on the Devil’s River that I had never heard of, much less visited:  Sunburst and Los Vientos Shelters.  Although the trek was scheduled close to a year away (October 28, 2023) I signed up, and paid my fee.&nb ..read more

ONE OF THE PETROGLYPH BOULDERS THAT FRANK LOYD WRIGHT INCORPORATED INTO THE DESIGN OF TALIESIN WEST IN PHOENIX ARIZONA. Petrified!  A Fall 2022 Rock Art Trip, Part 2 I finished up my last hike in Petrified Forest late in the afternoon of Friday, October 21, 2022.  I headed east on IH-40 to Flagstaff, where I spent the night.  I was up early the next morning to begin the second part of my Fall 2022 Rock Art Trip.  Here we go! Saturday, October 22, 2022–  Loy Canyon, Bear Claw Cave, and Woo Ranch Several years ago I had seen a photo of a pictograph in Loy Canyon and ..read more

AT THE PROCESSION PANEL ON COMB RIDGE, SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2022. Going With The Flow —  Spring 2022 Rock Art Trip (Part 2) Prologue… For quite some time I have entertained the notion that someday I would take a raft trip down the San Juan River and see some of the rock art and archaeology along that corridor, including sites south of the river on Navajo Reservation land.  Although I had been to the Bluff Area many times, I just never got around to looking into a raft trip.  That changed in early 2022 when I started poking around on the internet trying to figure out the best o ..read more

AT THE "BASEBALL MAN" PICTOGRAPH SITE IN CHINLE WASH ON THE NAVAJO RESERVATION, APRIL 27, 2022. Going With The Flow —  Spring 2022 Rock Art Trip (Part 3) Prologue… For quite some time I have entertained the notion that someday I would take a raft trip down the San Juan River and see some of the rock art and archaeology along that corridor, including sites south of the river on Navajo Reservation land.  Although I had been to the Bluff Area many times, I just never got around to looking into a raft trip.  That changed in early 2022 when I started poking around on the interne ..read more

With Mrs. Campbell, faithfull steward of the beautiful rock art at her family ranch outside of Paint Rock, Texas. December 21, 2019, Winter Solstice. 2019 Winter Solstice at The Paint Rock Pictograph Site Prologue For a number of years, I have been meaning to visit the pictograph site near Paint Rock, Texas.  When I lived in San Angelo during the early 1980s, I heard vague rumors that there was something over in Paint Rock that would be interesting to see, but I never looked into the matter.  Fast forward thirty years.  When I became interested in rock art and purchased a c ..read more

The western entrance to Kakadu is still a long distance from the center of the park...it is huge! The Road to Kakadu -- Part 1 of My 2019 Australian Rock Art Adventure Prologue Truth be known, I have yearned to visit Australia since 1986 and the first time I saw the movie Crocodile Dundee with Paul Hogan.  That yearning was stoked in 2017 when I attended a lecture by two Australian archaeologists on the campus of Texas State University.  The focus of that lecture was not rock art, but after the lecture I retired to the library to explore Australian archaeology on the internet ..read more

I saw this family of wallabys on the drive to Mt. Borradaile, early on the morning of Wednesday, September 11, 2019...magical! The Magic of Mt. Borradaile -- Part 2 of My 2019 Australian Adventure Prologue: Why Mt. Borradaile? From the Davidson's Website... “Nestled against the Arnhemland escarpment is this landscape of rugged ranges fringed by idyllic billabongs.  Be immersed in unique ecosystems teeming with birdlife, crocodiles and barramundi amongst a cornucopia of bush food and medicine plants.  Valleys, overhangs and caves carved out by an ancient sea, have been occupied ..read more

THE GREAT SHAMAN PANEL AT NAN RANCH, NEW MEXICO. Adding Some Rock Art to a Birding Trip: NAN Ranch, Spirit Canyon, and Millville Prologue The Great Covid Pandemic of 2019  and Dorothy’s breast cancer diagnosis in July of 2021 really cut into my travels, especially when it came to rock art.  The few trips that I did take were hybrids —  a combination of birding and rock art adventures.  The rafting trip I took (in April of 2022) was the first for that year.  In August of 2022, I attended the Southwest Wings Birding Festival in Sierra Vista, Arizona.  While pla ..read more

AT ARROYO DEL TAJO, NEAR SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2022. Going With The Flow —  Spring 2022 Rock Art Trip  (Part 1) Prologue… For quite some time I have entertained the notion that someday I would take a raft trip down the San Juan River and see some of the rock art and archaeology along that corridor, including sites south of the river on Navajo Reservation land.  Although I had been to the Bluff Area many times, I just never got around to looking into a raft trip.  That changed in early 2022 when I started poking around on the internet trying to figure ..read more