New frontiers

After more than a decade in the newspaper business, I hung up my press pass this fall and took day job with Trout Unlimited. I figured I had harped long enough on conserving some of the great spaces of the west that, in the scary times in which we live, it was time to shut-up and do something about it.

Exciting? Yes. Sad? A little. But alas, life moves forward, right? Perhaps the most painful part was handing in the thousands of dollars worth of photo gear I had been absolutely spoiled rotten with over the years. Goodbye 400mm lens. Goodbye wide angle. How I will miss thee.

BUT.

New lenses have arrived, and they're beauties! Photos of new adventures to come: Think elk hunters in Colorado, steelhead in Oregon, and for those who still read, the saga of the mule deer...