Road Trip (May 2024)
Who needs to walk at graduation when you can go on a family trip instead?
I begged my parents to stop on the side of the road for this photo.
And I could feel the concern they both had when I threw myself down on the road to get a better angle.
Taking photos from a moving vehicle isn’t my favorite activity, but I feel like the motion blur adds to the charm of this abandoned shack in the middle of nowhere. The clouds help with an ominous feeling, too.
Something just doesn’t feel quite right about this place - best to avoid it.
I liked the way these guys were lined up in a row, all just relaxing in the grass. Sometimes I wish my life was that carefree.
I wish I remembered where this lake was, but I think it was somewhere in South Dakota. It was beautiful that morning.
Just like the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore was… smaller than I thought it would be. Most photos frame it as this unbelievably massive sculpture, as if it takes up the whole mountain.
It’s still impressively large, but I do think the mountain as a whole would be more impressive without the faces on it.
Driving through Bryce Canyon and Zion National Park, I thought the patterns in this rock were incredibly interesting.
I also really liked the patterns here. There’s also the split in the rock, the trees and bushes growing out of a sheer rock face, and the person climbing at the bottom left to add a sense of scale that I don’t think it would have otherwise.
There is no story to this photo, other than the fact that I thought the tree reaching out over the canyon would make for an interesting photo.
It was also exciting to see more national parks and to get out of Arizona for a short while, before I started a rigorous fellowship program and dove into covering the 2024 federal and local elections.