A few years ago I was traveling in Bolivia. The trip was dedicated largely to photography and I spent time in many parts of that diverse, beautiful, and wonderful country. A photographic highlight was the high plateau of the Atacama…
Balance is a vital, and under appreciated aspect of photographic composition. I was reminded of this fact just the other day when we were treated to a short, and lovely display of the aurora borealis. It wasn’t a particularly booming…
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…
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 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…
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.…
Image of the day for Saturday 2 November. I made this image on the slopes of Ester Dome, just west of Fairbanks. The sun was rising and tall birches were capped with frost. As winter rolls in, it’s increasing difficult…
I’ve got a thing for the Alpine. The word deserves capitalization because, for me, it is more than a habitat, or geographic zone. It is these things, certainly, but it also has personality and character. I relish the time I get…
I have caught myself a cold, and my brain is filled with that cotton-stuffed feeling. And today, though I try as hard as I can, I can’t seem to get any real work done. Queries sit around unwritten and…
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…