Bob Maynard Bio: Photo Tour Guide,
Photographer & Photo Workshop Instructor

I arrived in Boulder, Colorado in the summer of 1969 intent on attending graduate school at the University of Colorado.  My money ran out after one term, but the Colorado Rockies already had a firm grip on me.  Throughout the ‘70s, ‘80s and ’90s I spent as much time as I could in the vast Colorado and Utah outdoors backpacking, hang gliding, back-country skiing, mountain biking and river running, and burning through thousands of rolls of film (remember film?).  In 1984 I saw Moab for the first time.  I was enroute to Page, Arizona, to run the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon with a group of kayakers and rafters who had a private permit.  In 1984 there were 2 restaurants in Moab, the Poplar Place and a Mexican restaurant in the south part of town that was later seized by the IRS for back taxes.  The Moab economy was feeling the pinch of the phasing out of uranium mining and the miners didn’t take kindly to the new eco-recreationalists.  There was another café a block east of the main drag that served only breakfast and lunch.  It had a hand-lettered sign in the window that said “Sierra Club is a Four-Letter Word”.

The next time I visited Moab was after I started mountain biking in 1987.  This was when I fell in love with the desert.  My love for the desert and the Colorado Plateau has only grown deeper with each passing year.  This is where “the bones of the planet” are visible to everyone on a daily basis.  It is also the place where the Anasazi lived their lives of endless migration and left their history for us to view with awe and wonder.  Thanks to modern technology they are no longer considered a “vanished” people.  We know where they are today and are constantly learning more about how they got there. 

I have shot thousands of frames as I make slow progress towards retracing their migration.  My Desert Southwest Photography Exhibition first went on display in Boulder in 2008.  My latest focus in on the Colorado Rockies.  I have a 30-piece exhibition "The Colorado Rockies:  Sunrises, Sunsets and Reflections" in Boulder through April and have several new Colorado workshops available this year.  One of the best will be the Fall Colors 4-day workshop.  Hope you can attend!