Bobby has spent decades scouting and cultivating locations to shoot. Plus he is always spending a lot of time selecting models. That presents a problem for us photographer, too may hard decisions to make. For example, the attached photo I call Amber in Wonderland. It was taken on a late afternoon shoot on private land.

We had 3 outstanding models and several locations to shoot; it would take a week to shoot all the models in all the locations. I had to decide on what shots to take and which ones I had to pass up on. Fortunately it was decisions you couldn't go wrong on. We shot for several hours and got hundreds of photos, all are keepers and many are winners. Wish I had to make decisions like that on a daily basis and not just on Bobby's trips.

Mike Madrid

Shooting at Big Bend with Bobby was an adventure in photography. The spectacular locations really changed the way I look at my nudes, and I found myself capturing a lot of shots featuring the giant skies of West Texas. Each day, a new crop of fluffy white clouds blows across the region in the famous "Marfa Front", and I waited with anticipation to capture images like this one. The model is Savannah, from North Carolina.

One of the great things about Bobby's trips are the amount of prep he's done before you ever get there. He's scouted these interesting locations - and done it several times so he knows when's the best time to shoot there.

This is an old adobe building - there's no roof and when the light gets into the late morning (typically tough shooting) you can get the right light inside.

This is Ellen standing in the right place in the right light. Thanks, Bobby!

Bob Warren

In the fashion of every day on Bobby's trips we started out for "an incredible place where the sunset light is great and the view is terrific. AND it is just a little off the beaten track where we won't have to deal with others coming by!"    Now how Bobby remembers the little red rock by the road where you turn is still something of a mystery, voodoo of some kind I believe!  So off we went past the sign which said road closed and on to the sign that said "Only four wheel drive beyond this point" and to another sign of "Road Closed to ALL vehicles."  We continue on following the intrepid leader.  "Road" becomes only a euphemism for rocks, boulders, crevasses, brush, drop-offs etc.   As the driver of one vehicle finally said, "That's it, I not going any further," Bobby’s reply was that it was just around the corner.    CORNER, my foot!   A mile later was stopped and was "THERE."    And it was truly beautiful, with rocks, knarly trees, little ponds of water and a great view across a huge canyon.  As the sun went down the light turned magical, again.   Finally just as the light got "perfect" someone realized that we had to get out before dark or there was no way to get back through what we had traversed coming in.  With a lot of grumbling and disappointment we left the magic light--and turned out it was a good thing we did.   It is what it takes to get some of the most satisfying images, persistence, risk, and a little stupidity,   AND just follow Bobby on one of his trips.