In the years when our whole family gets together for the Christmas holidays we try to get in a day or two of skiing. So yesterday my Dad, brother, a friend, and I headed to A-Basin. It wasn’t a photography…
Skiing Arapahoe Basin
My 100 Best Images of 2013
Northern Lights Lead to Busy Days
I feel like I need to wipe the sweat off my brow after the past few days. It was a normal weekend, pleasant, relaxing. A holiday party on Friday followed by an easy Saturday at home, a nice ride on…
Stumbling on the Landscape
I guess the title here is a bit mis-leading, what I actually did was stumble on this landscape image, deep in my Lightroom Catalog. I made this photo several years ago during a canoe trip around the Savonoski Loop in…
Getting it Wrong, and (rarely) right.
I took this photo years and years ago. Before I’d ever sold an image, or even really considered taking on photography as profession. I often come back to this one because it was one of the first times, I…
Clouds
Clouds are unquestionably an important part of landscape photography. Rarely does a perfect blue sky or a flat gray one render great landscapes. And sometimes the clouds themselves are enough to create the image. These three photos I made over…
TLR- First images
I just got back (finally) my first two rolls of film shot with my new (antique) Zeiss Ikon Ikoflex twin-lens reflex camera. I’ve gotten so spoiled by the digital age and the instant gratification that comes with it, that I…
Howling with Wolves
A group of clients and I descended a steep gravel slope of a mountain we’d just summited. There was hardly any vegetation, just a long field of fine gravel interspersed with copper-colored boulders. The Kelly River Valley below was sweeping…
Evening in the Kelly Valley- The Story Behind the Image
It was August 30. Though that is still summer in much of the country, in northern Alaska, autumn was in full swing. I was guiding my final trip of the season, a week-long canoe trip down the Kelly River.…
Is Aurora season finally here?
Perhaps it is, perhaps it is. It’s been a slow start to the season. The sun, despite being at its peak of solar activity for the next ten or so years, hasn’t been sending much action our way. Hopefully, however,…