There was a decent Aurora display last night. It wasn’t particularly bright so it required some long (30 second) exposures which blurred the patterns of the lights. Still it was a lovely, if cold, night of shooting. I experimented…
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Today, activities like cooking, eating and then desperately exercising to try and burn off the gluttony are higher on my list than posting to the blog, so I’m going to make this one short. Today we move…
Staying within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, today I’m sharing three images of Buff-breasted Sandpipers made in the middle of the night (still sunny that far north) on the Canning River Delta in June of 2007. Buff-breasted Sandpipers were one…
Today our Avian Retrospective moves north into the wild country of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In June 2007, I guided a custom photography trip for Arctic Wild to the coastal plain of the refuge. The two clients and I…
Today I turn to one of my favorite species of birds. I’ve had the great pleasure of intensively studying the Rusty Blackbird for the past five years as part of my work at the Alaska Bird Observatory. They breed throughout…
These two images have a special meaning for me. The reason is that they represent the first shots from a major financial investment in my photography: the purchase of a Canon 500mm f4L IS lens. These were made on…
Continuing my bird retrospective series we have this image of a Blue Gray Tanager. I actually made this image a few months before I shot the the Boreal Owl I featured yesterday. This image was made with a Canon 20D…
Over the next week or so I’m going to be sharing some of my bird photography from the past few years. These images will cover a range when I was taking photography from a passionate hobby into the realm of…
I spent the weekend in Anchorage. I sit on the board of Audubon Alaska which is, in my opinion, one of the most effective environmental groups working in the state. Their science-based conservation efforts are extraordinary, and worthy of support. Though…
Following up the last couple of posts on human portraits I thought I’d post one of my favorite images as an example of wildlife portraiture. There is a tendency in wildlife photography to get close, really, really close. We use…