A couple of days ago we conducted a landing at Isla Guanape off the coast of northern Peru. The island, a national reserve, is home to thousands of nesting Peruvian and Blue-footed Boobies, Peruvian Pelicans, and a handful of other…
If you are at all involved in the the artistic world online or elsewhere, you’ve likely heard the refrain: “Tell stories, tell stories, tell stories.” And it’s good advice too. Successful images, successful writing, even successful marketing campaigns tell compelling…
This Skua is a jerk: Or at least he and the rest of his species (actually several species) do a pretty good job of playing the part. Skuas are big seabirds, closely related to gulls, and they are nasty predators.…
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…
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…
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…
The final evening of my Artist Residency at Gates of the Arctic National Park, that’s when I made this image. Much of the trip was dominated by gray, and a few long days of rain. I don’t mind the…
On Saturday, Amy and I gathered some lunch materials and and made the short drive to the top of Murphy Dome, about 20 miles from our home north of Fairbanks. Amy was equipped with a sketchbook and watercolors, I with…
Each fall Fairbanks hosts the Equinox Marathon. It’s primarily a trail race that carries runners on a long loop through the forested hills on the west side of town. It includes a brutal 2000+ foot climb up Ester Dome, the…
Busy weekend. On Friday I flew down to Anchorage, bought a car, drove it back to Fairbanks, packed for a camping trip, then on Sunday headed down to the Denali Highway in the new car. We camped for the night…