Yesterday President Obama proposed full wilderness designation for the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This the highest level of protection that can be bestowed on public lands in the United States, and there are few places as…
Following the lead of my friend and colleague, Patrick Endres, I thought I’d try to hone down my top 100 images of 2014 to my favorite 10. Turns out that selecting ten images is much more difficult than selecting 100. As Patrick found…
When the moon is bright, the aurora, almost always, isn’t. That can be a drag, and why many photographers will time their trips to the north around new moons. Yet, the combination of the two: bright moon, and the aurora…
It’s the end of December 2014, so its time for my annual photography round-up. Looking back at 2014, I see a busy year, a few shots I’m really happy with, and a lot of missed opportunities. This gallery includes images…
The Coal Creek Dredge is a hulking, land-chewing, industrial caterpillar. Dormant now, the beast sits idle in the center of Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, a legacy to the mining history of the park. It’s an ugly thing, operated on and off…
Up here in Alaska we like to brag a bit about how tough our winters are. We scoff when friends and family in the lower 48 complain about cold temperatures. But for all our bluster and braggadocio, winters are hard.…
“You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.” -Janis Joplin While I doubt that Janis had photography in mind when she wrote the lyrics to her classic “Piece of my Heart”, I think it’s actually a great…
When I was a kid I had a series of “forts” that extended from my backyard through several neighbors properties and into a stringer of undeveloped forest a 1/4 mile from home. Usually centered around a partly fallen, or ivy-covered…
“There are strange things done in the midnight sun, by the men who moil for gold…” So starts the first verse of Robert Service’s classic poem The Cremation of Sam McGee. There is a great story woven into the rhyme…