A bit of a sad learning story here... But first, as for this photo from Argentina, this was found on the second day of hiking about 40km into the Andes. The landscape changes very quickly and we emerged from one forest and were suddenly facing another. The stark white roots reminded me of bones coming out of the ground and holding up old trees. In the distance, you can see the final destination of this hike - the mysterious peaks of Fitz Roy. These are covered by clouds 90% of the time, so to have them on a crystal clear day was lucky indeed.

Anyway, as for the sad part. Well, sad isn't the right word. I brought a video camera with me. I took this back before the iPhone and stuff, which would have been way easier than lugging around a separate video camera. Well, I had this great idea to record little "moments" here and there along the hike. My "innovative" idea was to make the whole thing really blurry and out-of-focus and then occasionally get the right focus about 5% of the time. I thought it would be all artsy and interesting. Anyway, I edited the whole thing together and had a big announcement about the release of the little "film" to use the word lightly. Anyway, people HATED it. They were like, "It's all out of focus man!" I was like, well guys that was on purpose! Anyway, I felt like a total failure after that one... I just tried to go find it again, and I think I deleted it out of shame.

What lesson did I learn? I guess it was simply that not all my ideas are great, but it doesn't mean I should stop trying new things. I didn't let the haters affect me too much, although I am sorry I deleted it. I'd kind of like to see how it aged. Who am I kidding? It probably sucks even more now. :)

Patagonia, Argentina