I make no apologies for the fact that I refuse to travel East of the Mississippi River. There’s nothing there that I’m interested in. The exception to that travel restriction was the one time I went to visit my wife’s family in Ohio, to meet all her relatives, see where they lived, and share the places that were special to her when she was growing up.

There wasn’t a whole lot of time to do regular site-seeing, and at the time I was more of a landscape photographer guy and didn’t do much travel photography. Hudson Springs Park, in Hudson, Ohio, was the only place I visited during that trip where I felt inspired to make some images.