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When you climb down into Lower Antelope Canyon in Page, Arizona, the sight of all the swirls of rock surrounding you is overwhelming.

Lower Antelope is a beautiful slot canyon formed by flash floods and erosion. You enter thru a hole and climb several ladders to get down to the floor of the canyon. As you're climbing further down the ladders clinging to your tripod and camera equipment, remember that you need to get out of there If it's raining even 35 miles away. Eleven people drowned there in 1997.

Over the years I have had many things that held my interest long enough to buy all the equipment and supplies and get pretty good at it then I would lose interest. Photography is always changing. I never get tired of looking for a different light or the perfect angle. Most of the time I'm in a place where nobody knows me so it's not too embarrassing to lie in the mud to get the right reflection. My husband says that I lose all common sense when I have a camera in my hands. Well, he found me clinging on to a crooked fence post hanging over the North Sea in Scotland to photograph a sea stack. I'm making an effort to avoid those situations. We're now traveling in our RV about six months of the year photographing America and...