New photographers often struggle with creating a system for organizing their photos.  This is all about folder structure.  Most people innately recognize some utility in organizing by date, but doing so tells you nothing about what’s actually in the folders.  Many people want to organize their photos by subject matter […]

Saving the Organization and Edits You Made While Traveling In a prior article, I showed you a system for backing up your photos while on the road.  That system boils down to making 3 copies of your photos, one of which is on an external drive that you can easily […]

Protecting Your Photos Simply and Cheaply You will be taking a lot of photos on your travels.  Many of these photos will be really nice and some of them are likely to be spectacular.  Losing your data would be a damn shame at best, and catastrophic at worst.  Let’s talk […]

The Basic Information Distance: 75 miles round trip Starting Elevation: Lukla (elevation 9,383 feet) Maximum Elevation: Kala Patthar (18,514 feet) Base Camp Elevation: 17,598 feet (5,364 meters) Time Required for Trek: 11-12 days (ours was 12 days, with 9 going up and 3 coming down) Acclimatization Days: 3-4 (4 for us). Average high temps: 40-50 degrees Fahrenheit.  […]

For many, going to Machu Picchu is a dream trip.  It was for us.  The idea of a lost city on a mountain in the clouds just seems too cool for words.  And it is.  But getting there is tricky.  You cannot just fly there, there will be at least […]

I take packing light fairly seriously.  I never check a bag, even on trips of two weeks or more.  I’ve been to Peru with nothing more than a small photo backpack.  I know that sounds braggy, and I’m sorry for that, but I need to show you right up front […]

I want to give you one simple method that will take you from dreaming about a trip of a lifetime to actually making it happen. First, I want to talk about making good whiskey.  Bear with me because this will actually have some application to what I just mentioned.  When […]