but she decided to try her hand at landscape photography, and she headed to the mountainous wilderness owestern colorado. she rode polo ponies and branded cows and went rock climbing and was a student at the rochester institute and was quite a student of photography. she was a realist and she knew how to face things and worked through them. michelle faithfully called her parents almost every day to let them know where she was and what she was doing. but when several days passed without a call, her parents became alarmed. i knew that she didn t run off. you know, they said, well, this is one of these girls that, you know, just decides she s a free spirit and off she goes. she was not that way.