To avoid confusion, the "I" throughout the site refers to Chad, and the "we" typically refers to my son Sean and me. Sometimes, "we" refers to my wife Melissa and me.

My first experience with rock art was when I was five or six years old, and my father took me to Grand Gulch for a few days. While I don't remember the glyphs, I remember being intrigued with the Native American sites and art (mostly sites). Over the last couple of decades, Melissa and I have taken several road trips to visit Native American sites, including Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, and others.

A few years ago, Sean and I became interested in astrophotography. We enjoy taking photos of eclipses, meteor showers, the aurora, etc. We ran across some rock art on one of those outings and took a few photos. I was immediately hooked on rock art photography. I've become somewhat obsessed with discovering and photographing Utah's rock art and understanding its significance. I drag Sean along these excursions, though he's never gone unwillingly. I'm pretty sure he enjoys the outings too.

Sean and I have made several pilgrimages to search for and photograph rock art. Currently, Nine Mile Canyon and Moab are our destinations of choice. Mainly because we've been to both a couple of times and have only scratched the surface. However, there are many areas we want to visit.

When Melissa and I are going on a road trip, I'll dig through the books I have and spend time on the internet researching what art might be found in the area of our destination and, occasionally, on the drive there (Melissa disagrees. She thinks anytime we go anywhere it's all about photographing art for me).

Melissa takes a lot of photos but isn't into all the heavy gear. She uses her phone and usually takes more interesting photos than Sean or me.

Neither Sean nor I is a professional photographer. We occasionally use incorrect settings, or, more often, forget to change settings when needed, or accidentally change the settings to something we don't want. So, I am not opposed to correcting photographs in post-production. Also, Sean likes taking close-ups of glyphs that he finds particularly interesting. Due to space, I don't post all of them. However, if you would like to see a close-up of a particular glyph, please contact me, and I'll see if Sean took one.