The new aesthetic — becoming an explorer.

What does it mean?

What does it mean to be an explorer? Exploro in Latin — to cry out, from scouting an area, perhaps a hunter’s term. The general idea:

To scout out, and investigate an area yourself … out of your personal curiosity.

What are you curious about?

This is the difficult thing: as children, we are naturally curious. Curious about everything. Yet when we become adults, the curiosity is beaten out of us, through education and discipline.

Exploration towards what ends?

Why explore? Towards what ends?

A simple one is just to inspire yourself, witness new things and make new photos. For example, my new passion for the desert and Joshua Tree.

Extending the breadth and depth of the human soul

Why is it that so many films and religions were founded on or based in the desert? Wide vistas, plains, and deep views — extends the ambition of the human soul.

There is still so much left to be explored and conquered

No — the world isn’t tapped out. This is only the cramped feeling we get from living in the suburbs or over-crowded cities of ours.

Yucca Valley — a great new investment opportunity.