Despite owning a small business for the last 14 years, I’ve never had a legitimate Facebook account. And I’m proud of the fact. However, when I began photographing landscapes, I knew Instagram was a necessity to promote and sell my photography. Traveling is expensive and I have to keep the bank account funded or my adventure venture will end prematurely.

So, acting on the advice of my 20-something daughter, I created an Instagram account and @HeckelOutside was born. Before that time, I honestly thought Instagram was a new Polaroid camera.

It was my first photography excursion to the great state of Nebraska and I had spent several days of solo camping in Niobrara State Park. The recreation area is located at the confluence of the Missouri and Niobrara rivers in the northeast corner of the state.

Kathryn: Do you have have what we talked about?

Paul: $15,000 right? Sorry about your magazine going out of business.

Kathryn: Yes, $15,000 if you want me to do this interview. And you pay for lunch. As for the magazine folding, it’s become a digital world. Print is dead. It was bound to happen.

If a photographer gets gored by a mountain goat on the border of a National Park and State Park, what agency has jurisdiction to slap an “idiot” sticker on his forehead?