About Us

Honestly… we want to be where you aren’t.

Not YOU specifically, YOU are wonderful, I know that because YOU are reading this. I mean the hordes. We research so we can go places where there’s not a lot of tourists. That does NOT mean we go to boring places. We find really cool hidden gems. And it helps that we see the beauty in the “unloved places”–the lunar landscapes, the two-track stretching out to infinity, where the cows go when they can’t go home.


I’m the photographer, naturalist, and recorder. He’s the driver, the jerry-rigger, and the Cheesehead. Our two beastie besties are Wirehaired Pointing Griffons.

We aren’t off to see the world. We want to see the earth.

Meet our Amazing and Insightful Team

Two best friends with their two beastie besties.

Your Tour Guide

Nikki

I gave up my tour guide jobs so I could see more of this marvelous earth we have the privilege of living on. Now I get to be your virtual tour guide and I’m loving it!

Driver and Staffage

CT, the CheeseHead

Staffage is an archaic photographer’s term meaning a person who stands by a wonder so the viewer can compare the size of the wonder being photographed to the size of a typical man.

Goofball #1

Otis

Master of the stare down, chasing away the bears, stealing bones from his sister, is Otis, the Wirehaired Pointing Griffon.

Goofball #2

Lilie

In the Dog Olympics category for finding the legs of dead animals, Lilie takes gold but comes in last place in defending said legs from her brudder.

I’m Nikki

Traveler to hidden places. Photographer to every bug and flower. Tour guide for tour guides. Scrap paper artist. Gardener in the desert. Playworker who’s children have grown and flown the nest. All at once. All the time. Collecting the new flakes of me like a reverse Michelangelo flecking away the marble to reveal the masterpiece within the stone… Sorta. Okay, maybe not that amazing.