I spent the past weekend camping, hiking and rock climbing in Joshua Tree–a place I’ve come to love since moving to Southern California a year ago. I’m working on a short experimental movie about the trip and hope to be able to post it by next week. Until then, here’s one of my favorite photos from the weekend. The sky was perfectly clear and the moon was incredibly bright, which made for fabulous night photography.

Okay, long story, but I wanted one of these back in June. I figured I’d wait until my birthday in July. Unbeknownst to me, production of Goccos of any sort was discontinued [again] as of end of June/beginning of July, and by the time I was officially on the market, prices has had gone way up and availability had gone way down. I looked and looked, followed some leads to dead ends, and finally (and triumphantly!) both found and acquired a fabulous Gocco PG-11. Don’t even ask about my method of acquisition (leave it at the extraordinary efforts of good friends and friends of good friends), but, long story short, I proudly beheld my PG-11 for the first time this past Monday. Anyway, here it is, now I’ve just got to figure out how to use it…