I spent the last few days around Juneau, Alaska’s capitol, for the spring board meeting of Audubon Alaska. Twice a year I join the rest of the board and staff to discuss wildlife and habitat conservation in the state. Audubon Alaska…
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…
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…
As I write these words, I can look out the window of cabin on the ship and see the distant coast of Peru as hazy mountains, almost blending with the sky. The sea is being kind and the ship is…
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…
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.…
A couple of months from now, I’ll be stepping on a plane and heading to Chile. At the port city of Valparaiso, I’ll be boarding the Silver Explorer, an expedition cruise ship operated by SilverSea Expeditions. From mid-March to mid-April,…
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…
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…
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.…