Brett Gross Photography

Gingerbread pancakes!

I usually stay pretty loyal to the Hampton Inn chain (I’ve been a faithful sleeper there since before I knew that Paris Hilton existed), but this week in Chicago I am staying at Kimpton’s Hotel Allegro. The hotel is nice enough and the staff certainly is friendly, but what impressed me was the housekeeping. Yeah. [...]

I just realized that I apparently never posted this. At least I can’t find it… Anyhow, using my Garmin eTrex HCx to navigate our way to and back from The Wave, I was able to use the excellent HoudahGeo to geocode my images. I then used some of those images to build a photographic journal [...]

When some college friends and I planned to spend the weekend in Atlantic City, I must admit I wasn’t too thrilled about our choice in cities. We’d gone to AC shortly after we all turned 21 for some good old fashioned drinking and gambling, but that was more than a decade ago- and even then [...]

Today I’m going to prattle about navigation. Nowadays there aren’t too many good excuses for not having a GPS for navigational assistance on a big trip. If you don’t have one the odds are good that you may know someone who does and is willing to loan it to you. The GPS isn’t without its [...]

Well, out trip into Arizona’s famous sandstone formation ‘The Wave’ is now safely in the past. We have made it out to Arizona, back into the Coyote Buttes wilderness and eventually back to Pennsylvania safe and sound. Here are my thoughts on hiking The Wave.

We went with Antelope Canyon Tours and took their photographer’s package. If you are considering a visit to Antelope Canyon (in Page, AZ) then I heartily encourage you to do the same. Our guide, Rosie, was great!

On our recent trip to the American Southwest I lost data from a memory card. After importing a card into Aperture, I thoughtlessly erased the card in my camera before noticing Aperture gave an alert that it didn’t successfully import all of the images. Oops. The photos were gone as far as Finder could tell, [...]

We tend to eat when we’re on the road. Not more than usual (often the opposite) but we do still need to eat. Usually we can manage to stay in a hotel/motel that offers a complimentary continental breakfast (although the super-excellent Hampton Inn chain does complimentary hot breakfast!) but that leaves 2 meals. When I [...]