For the past few years, it seems whenever I took a fall color trip - I was a bit early, or a bit late. The colors are always nice, but you miss that absolute peak time. As I mentioned in my previous post, my Alaska trip started out in Cantwell - primarily for its...
Notes from the Woods
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Alaskan Spruce
This is an image from the start of my trip where a friend recommended staying at the Backwoods Lodge in Cantwell, AK as a good central spot to access Denali from, with better rates than staying just outside the park. We were told that the film "Into the Wild" was...
Return from Alaska
Hey folks. Back home now after a couple of days of recouping from a bad cold I caught while on the boat in Katmai. Future posts will elaborate more on the trip that was basically broken down into three segments - Denali, Kodiak/Katmai, and a short day...
Alaska bound
Well, I am now less than 2 weeks away from heading off on my first trip to Alaska. I surprise myself I haven't mentioned it before here, but I have been so swamped with so many other things. I will be photographing for a few days just outside Denali National Park,...
Robotic art
A robot certainly cannot create art, or can it? One definition of art is an interaction of experience of the artist, what they have learned and felt in relation to their artwork, and the experience of the viewer and all of their background that molds their...
Cryptic Teardrop Crabs
Continuing my look back through some of my underwater work, and scanning new images - I came across these images of Cryptic Teardrop Crabs. These little crabs are about the size of your fingernail, and generally only come out at night. Both of these...
Sea Lions at play
I recently reprocessed this photograph that was originally shot back in 2001 on a trip to the Galapagos Islands. There isn't much dramatic change from the original version, just a bit more contrast and pop I wanted to add. However, aside from the technical...
Clay vs. Concrete
We have so many options available to us these days in processing our photographs it can be overwhelming at times. We can follow the straight documentary approach, veer a bit left, a bit right, or even turn around 180 degrees and head in another direction. For me,...


