Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images

Picture: Dark storm clouds over Balanced Rock at sunset, Arches National Park, Utah

Chicken Little said, “The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling!”
I just saw that stock photo industy guru, Jim Pickerell wrote in his newsletter, “Selling Stock”:
“The stock photo industry is in turmoil. Never in more than 30 years I have been involved [...]

Picture: Red rocks at Kodachrome Basin State Park, Utah

Today, the Kodak Company announced that it was retiring Kodachrome, its flagship slide film that it been producing for well over half a century. Take a look at any National Geographic Magazine circa the early 1990’s or earlier, and that’s all you’ll see; images shot on Kodachrome. [...]

Picture: Sunrise behind Thor’s Hammer, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah.
I’m very pleased to announce that I will be co-teaching a workshop on The Business of Outdoor and Nature Photography in conjunction with fellow photographer Charlie Borland and Aspen Photo Workshops. The workshop will be held November 5th through 8th, 2009 at Ruby’s Inn & Conference [...]

Picture: Tourist family photos being taken by mom while kids stand at the center of the Four Corners Monument, on the Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado borders.

I just heard this on the news… It could only have happened in the days before GPS. Yes, I’ve been there. Yes, I now feel ripped off and [...]

Photo: Cow skull in window sill as western living decor, Valley of the Gods Bed & Breakfast Inn, Valley of the Gods, Utah.
It finally happened. I threw up my hands in surrender, and labeled myself, “Spammed to Death”. I ranted back in Feburary about how I was getting 200 spam emails [...]

Picture: Stormy sunrise over the La Sal Mountains and Washer Woman Arch from atop a mesa, Island in the Sky section, Canyonlands National Park, Utah
I refer to the story behind this image to every single workshop client or at public speaking venue that I give. The concept I am trying to teach is to not [...]

Picture: Yoga Teacher (in red) and student practice yoga outdoors at Red Mountain Spa in Ivins, near St. George, Utah

The other day, a friend of mine sent me a really nice photo of his girlfriend practicing yoga on a mountainside in the Eastern Sierra. The only chance I ever had to photograph something like that [...]

Picture: Hiker in the Zion River, Zion River Narrows, Zion National Park, Utah.
This is an image I took while my buddy, Michael Routh, and I trekked up the Zion River Narrows last fall. During our return walk to the valley, Michael ditched his camera and pack on some nearby rocks, and headed out into [...]

Picture: Twisting dirt road below red cliffs, Canyonlands National Park, Utah
 Some of you might recognize the title of this post as lyrics from a Talking Heads song. This image always makes me think of that song. This image comes from a newly keyworded set of 160 images from Arches, Canyonlands, and Moab, and stem from [...]

Picture: Delicate Arch at Sunset, Arches National Park, near Moab, Utah.

(Side note: Some of you may have seen this image last Fall. It was featured on the cover of The Territory Ahead catalog.)
Friday afternoon, a day when business calls are usually light, I got a phone call from a major national travel magazine with a [...]