Click the Bucket

What’s on your “bucket” list of stuff to accomplish before you croak? Write a novel? Scuba on the Great Barrier Reef? Shower naked with Pamela Anderson? The goal of Scottsdale-based commercial photographer Ken Ross is to capture 101 countries by the time he reaches the half-century mark – and he’s getting close on both counts.

His “Travel Photos by Ken Ross” exhibit is a wide-ranging showing of the artist’s often offbeat works. The camera jockey recently returned from photographing the Taj Mahal in India, where curious onlookers thought he was a dentist. “To them, it looked like I was photographing a camel’s teeth, not the monument,” quips Ross. “They didn't understand the concept of a wide-angle lens.”