Our links will run the gamut here. You'll find a variety of different ones, so I'll try to categorize them. If you find a link that we might find useful, don't be bashful and suggest it to us. Click HERE to e-mail us with your suggestions (or comments, or anything!).

Photography:

Nikon - They help me take great pictures.

Bogen/Gitzo -Tripods, camera stands, grip gear, the best stuff going to hold your cameras lights and other random stuff we use.

Bibble - Shooting digital? Get Bibble and squeeze the most out of your RAW images. A MUST have!

Photoshop - Duh! You're a photographer and *don't* have photoshop?

Pelican - Protect your gear from water, dust, dirt, everything. Waterproof, dustproof, bombproof.

LowePro - Photographic backpacks, bags, accesories. If you need to carry your gear over rough terrain more than 50 feet from your car, this is the one to have.

Digital Outback Photo - Uwe's site talks about all aspects of digital photography, amateur to professional. Reviews on all kinds of digital cameras, e-books on photography and digital photography workflow.

Robgalbraith.com - Rob's site deals with digital photography and issues for working professional photographers. Cutting edge reports from all camera manufacturers. Haven't visited? Get with it!

Phototripusa.com - An incredible resource for photographers who want to get off the beaten path and see some incredible places. Guidebooks to challenge even the most experienced traveler and photographer. We use 'em and you should too.

The Moab Photography Symposium seeks to challenge photographers, whether professional or recreational, to seek their own unique interpretation of this land and its people. Our purpose is to inform, educate and creatively challenge photographers of all ages and backgrounds while celebrating the spirit of image making that binds us all.

Pictureline.com - The digital component of Salt Lake City's best brick and mortar camera shop. Nikon, Canon, Bogen, Epson, all the best gear with the best service you'll find anywhere.

Barnstorm - The Eddie Adams Workshop - A personal and career high for me to be invited to attend as a student for Barnstorm IX. I was fortunate enough to return as a member of the support staff for Barnstorm XIII. Eddie Adams was one of the most renowned photographers of his age, and went beyond his legendary status to help others follow in his footsteps. A great man, and one I was fortunate enough to meet and get to know a little bit.

Land Rovers:

Land Rover - Manufacturer of legendary four-wheel-drive vehicles.

BCB Offroad - These guys helped me make my custom Land Rovers. Lots of innovative modifications and equipment available.

RangeRovers.net - John Brabyn's excellent site regarding all things Range Rover. If you have a Range Rover and don't have this site bookmarked, shame on you.

Bill Burke - Want to learn how to drive your truck offroad safely? Bill teaches driving and recovery classes all over the world. Also does self-drive tours in the SouthWest.

TreadLightly! - Tread Lightly! educates the public to enjoy the outdoors responsibly.

Tawàyama Safaris in the media - See where we've been seen!

Expedition equipment:

Mountain Hardware - Tents, sleeping bags, clothing. The best there is.

ARB - Bull bars, roof racks, shock-absorbers not to mention the best locking differentials in the world. Also a client of mine (so I'm not biased or anything).

Warn - Winches, lights, recovery equipment to fit all types of 4wd vehicles. A client that got me started in the off-roading/photography industry.

Lowa - Hiking, boots to casual shoes these things rock. I wear them when scrambling over rocks and working under the trucks.

Birkenstock - Ok, so I'm not a lesbian specializing in Women's Studies but I've worn them since 9th grade anyway. The best thing to put your feet into.

4WDTRIPS.NET - A site dedicated to vehicle dependant expeditioning (what we do here at Tawàyama Safaris Inc.). A good resource for just about everything you would have questions on to head out into the backcountry on your own.

Earth's coolest places:

South Pole, Antarctica - Need I say more?

Mars Rovers - Alright, so it's not on Earth, but I'm not going to start an interplanetary links section. Amazing photographs and scientific reports from the planet Mars (it's the bright red one you see in the night sky).

Confluence.org - An ambitious worldwide project to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. Kind of confusing, but if you go to 36 degrees North and 115 degrees west (you'll be in Henderson, Nevada), take a picture and submit it to their site, you'll get the idea.

Personal Creative Inspirations:

Pat Metheny - Either solo or with The Pat Metheny Group, this is the best guitar player I've ever heard. I have every one of his CD's, have seen him in concert several times and have been enjoying his music for years. Wonderful to pass those long hours driving to and from photography expeditions.

Steely Dan - Donald Fagen is the creative mind behind Steely Dan and has also done some solo work. The Nightfly is the first CD I ever bought, and I have been listening to Steely Dan slightly longer than Pat Metheny. I also have every Steely Dan and Fagen CD in my collection. I don't know who has influenced me more creatively and I switch between Dan and Metheny constantly.

Other interesting things:

Bigfoot Field Researchers Orginization (BFRO) - The only scientific organization probing the bigfoot / sasquatch mystery. I have always belived, since I was a young kid, that the existance of bigfoot is real. No personal sightings, but the evidence is certainly compelling. Every time I'm out in the wilderness I keep my eyes peeled, 'just in case'.

DARPA Grand Challenge - An autonomous robot driven race from Barstow, California to Primm, Nevada. Cool techie-meet's greasehead type of event. No one finished, the next race will be in 2006

Chernobyl Ghost Town - Elena, a Russian woman who rides her Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle to Chernobyl often on short 'joy rides'. She provides VERY compelling photographs of what used to be a beautiful city before the reactor melt-down. Amateur photography, but of things you will NEVER see. Worth the time to check it out.