Tools of the Trade?

   Within the world of photography, it is often said that "the best camera is the one you have with you." What this basically means is that any camera, with enough knowledge of how to use it, can take really great pictures. Even the simplest of cameras, the "pinhole" camera, can take some of the most amazing pictures with the right hands and mind behind the lens. The greatest photographers practice their craft all the time, so that they can take great pictures with any camera, anywhere, under any conditions, at anytime. They work to perfect their craft. They work at it until it comes naturally. Their hands know their cameras every adjustment, every nuance, and they also know the cameras limitations and they learn how to work within those limits or right at the "cutting edge" of those limits (forgive the pun.) Perfecting their craft, that is the key. So it is with bushcraft. Let's look at some tools...

My Three Tool Buddies...

   So it has been awhile since I last posted to the blog, and since then a lot has happened. The State of Minnesota has settled on a budget and the state is open for business. What this means is that the state parks are again open for adventure. Yeah!! So game on...
   In the middle of July I headed out to Cheyenne, WY to visit my father for his 80th birthday. One of the days my father, my brother and I spent wandering the trails in the Medicine Bow National Forest in the Laramie Peak Range. This is a beautiful part of Wyoming that is home to black bear, mountain lion, elk, antelope and of course open range long horn cattle. I will try to post a picture or two and talk about the trip in a later post. So why this picture you are asking? More after the jump.