Day 2: Antelope Canyon

Okay, okay... I know I said daily updates were on the way. Technically day two was two days ago, making this day four.  The truth is that when I'm out on the road, editing time is at a premium. Life happens, new opportunities present themselves and I do my very best to get lost.  With that said, I have traveled from Denver, through some of the most beautiful landscapes in the American southwest and on into Santa Fe, NM.  It's surprising this is my first visit to this place.  Especially considering its healthy market for photography, I'm saddened I've never been here. As I sit at my hotel desk editing photographs and sipping Dale's Pale Ale I realize these should have gone up days ago. This is the last time I will visit this part of the country before I graduate in the spring and there is a pressure to push past the long hours and get the shots I need. I will be heading to Taos, NM tomorrow and on into Denver before continuing on to Minnesota.  It strikes me that in a few short weeks I will have traveled over 8,000 miles, yikes!

With all that said and you having moved on to another website, I will wrap this up.  The following photographs and video (did I upload a video?) represents the second day of travel in this odyssey of fools.

Cheers and Happy Christmas,

Geoff Ridenour

Santa Fe, NM

December 20, 2012

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Day 1: Monument Valley

It's that time of year when I grab my gear and head west. This round of travels will bring me from Denver into Utah, Arizona and New Mexico over the course of less than a week. Today I made my way from my home in Capitol Hill over Vail Pass, into sun baked Moab, UT, through snow kissed Monument Valley and into Page, AZ. Tomorrow morning I will be heading into Antelope Canyon and southwest to the Mojave Valley. Stay tuned in for daily video care of the GoPro Hero3 Black and more stills than you can shake a stick at. For now, I need to get packing for the mornings adventure. I leave you with a taste of the day:

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Drive: A Personal Narrative

A journey from childhood memories to finding my voice as a photographer.

Drive: A Personal Narrative from Geoff Ridenour on Vimeo.

Maybe It is was the three helicopters he went down in while serving in Vietnam. It might have been his memories of childhood and long road trips with his family. Whatever the reason we rarely chose flight. Travel plans with dad meant one thing; road trip. Dragging myself out out a warm bed and into the back seat of the family car fill my early childhood memories. I recall the feeling of drifting in and out of dreams as the  warm sunlight slowly began cresting the horizon, casting a magical glow over the landscape. All of this captured through the frame of that old rear window; compositions shifting in the blink of an eye, never constant, always changing.  This is how I discovered a passion I wouldn’t fully realize for nearly two decades.

I wasn't one of those straight out of high school, I know what I want to do, go to college, get the degree, meet the girl and have a family type people. I struggled. I struggled hard to discover my path in life.  It took over a decade of traveling the country bouncing from one dirty bar job to another to end up here. It strikes me now that I've always been looking through the viewfinder. Not necessarily one on the back of a camera but nevertheless through a frame. I’ve held many titles over the years, son, brother, roofer, bartender, waiter, student. None of these felt right. Perhaps that frame that I had spent hours staring out as a child had become something more. It had given me a new title; Photographer.