Aurora Gallery (14-15 November)
Flowing Photography
“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…
Poetry and the River
“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…
Coming Soon: Lightroom and the Landsape
My new ebook on processing digital landscape photographs using Adobe’s Lightroom software is coming soon! It is 90 pages of photography processing, stories from the field, and tutorial videos. It will be available on the itunes book store and as…
Clearing storm over the Jago
Scudding clouds roll past a peak over the Jago River in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Postcard from the Jago
I’m just back from a few days in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. I was base-camped with a single client at a spectacular site along the Jago River. The Jago has now entered my short list of most beautiful places…
The Names of Mountains
An unnamed tributary to the upper Sheenjek River in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. In the Rockies of Colorado, where I spent a lot of time during my formative years, one of the things I loved (still do actually)…
Backpacking the Sheenjek
Storm over the mountains of the upper Sheenjek Valley I just finished my first trip of the season guiding for Arctic Wild, and it was a great way to start the summer. Like many early season trips the days…
From Literal to Abstract: The Evolution of an Image
Day before yesterday I spent an hour or so wandering around the Creamer’s Field Waterfowl Refuge not far from downtown Fairbanks. It is a place I know well. Most of the winter’s snow has now turned to water and the…
Top Ten From South America
Interestingly, and somewhat surprisingly, I was not terribly productive photographically during the nearly six weeks I spent guiding aboard the SilverExplorer as we travelled from Valparaiso, Chile to Barbados. Much of the time ashore or out on zodiacs was spent…