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My favorite lens is the Lumix 14-140mm. Second is the Lumix 20mm.

I've been shooting Panasonic m43 since 2011. The size is just right for me.

Thanks for the Canyon de Chelly post. It's a place I want to get to some day. Even more so after reading up on Edward S. Curtis. His photo of the place inspired quite a few people. I read a biography of him after first hearing about him on some TV program a few years back. Quite the life...

August 2023 Part 19 [To Ouray] We had a room reserved in Ouray that evening. We drove Colorado's Million Dollar Highway to get there. The low hanging clouds loitering around the landscape did not disappoint. It was fairly late by the time we had checked in. We had a warning from the innkeeper...

August 2024 Part 18 [The Ride Back to Durango] All the other backpackers and us waited for the train. The rain showers came and took their last shots at us. The train was late, but it arrived. We loaded our backpacks into the boxcar and boarded our cars. We were back to Durango...

August 2024 Part 17 [Back to the Train] We made it through the night after setting up our tents in the rain. That morning was our last in Chicago Basin. We began our downhill hike to the Animas River to wait for the train at the Needleton stop.

August 2023 Part 16 [Double Vision] The clouds and mist amongst the peaks was all around us. It gave this odd appearance of an out-of-focus/double vision visual on the high ridges as night fell.

August 2023 Part 15 [Fun Things to Do in the Rain] For certain reasons, late upon the afternoon of the day before we were set to hike out and meet the train, we picked up our camp and hiked downhill a mile or two. So all that led to this. It started raining as soon as we spread the...

August 2023 Part 14 [Rained Out Again] The next day we made an attempt to summit. We started up the trail. But the weather looked like it was fading and turning to rain. We all turned around at different points. Back at camp... The last time it had been goats that saturated the area. We...

August 2023 Part 13 [The Rain Theme] The morning after Windom was planned for Eolus. We were set to get up and make a pre-dawn start. The rain started around 4:00 a.m. We scratched the day's schedule. Staring up at the drops rolling down the rainfly was how I spent my morning. There...

August 2023 Part 12 [Return to Camp] Looking back up at the ridge that holds Twin Lakes. There's a couple of cabins on a small parcel with private property signage. And it was time to rest.

August 2023 Part 11 [Summit Party on Sunlight] We had split up on the way down. Two of us were spent. The other went across the way to try Sunlight Peak. We had all bagged it last time we had been to Chicago Basin. He's there on the summit of Sunlight at 14,061 feet. Twin Lakes in the...

August 2023 Part 10 [Downslope] We descended from Windom.

August 2023 Part 9 [Windom Peak] We set out before dawn for our first 14er of the trip. Arriving at Twin Lakes. The trail fizzled out and it was a boulder-hopping affair. The summit at 14,089 feet. The clouds came in and blocked most of the view to the west.

August 2023 Part 8 [To Chicago Basin] We crossed the footbridge over the Animas River and set off from the train stop at Needleton. We found a campsite and settled in with anticipation for the next several days.

August 2023 Part 7 [Locomotive Locomotion] Continuing along the tracks. A water stop. All of us hikers were dropped off at Needleton. The boxcar was emptied and we strapped on our packs for the hike up to Chicago Basin.

August 2023 Part 6 [All Aboard] We hit the train station early, paid the overpriced parking fee, loaded our backpacks in the boxcar, and boarded the train at Durango. This was the way to do it. Last time at Chicago Basin, we backpacked in from Purgatory Trailhead. We learned a lesson then; the...

August 2023 Part 5 [Sand Canyon] Continuing on. We made it back to the old F-150 at the trailhead. We put in about 6 1/2 miles on an out-and-back hike. We headed to Durango. We elected to get a motel room that night since we needed to be up early to get to the train...

August 2023 Part 4 [Canyon of the Ancients] The plan that day was a dayhike at Canyon of the Ancients National Monument. We started our visit with a stop at the visitor's center. We selected a hike in Sand Canyon.

August 2023 Part 3 [Leaving Mancos] Breakfast and camp cleanup. The old standard of pigs-in-a-blanket. This site was on the north side of the lake.