exploring nature’s infinite connections
It is somewhat ironic that I am writing this post as a following to my last one that reviewed a Photoshop plugin, but I think there are some important points to be made . It seems every year we have new terms to add to the modern photography dictionary. It seems...
My stay on Kodiak Island was rather brief. It was shortened in the beginning due to an approaching storm, which meant the float planes need to get you off the island in a hurry. It was shortened on the way back for the same reason, combined with a lot of rain. All the...
June 1912 wasn't a very pleasant time in Katmai. Imagine not being able to see a lamp at arms length due to sulfurous volcanic ash filling the air. Remnants of the events of that time remain nearly 100 years later and became the subjects of a few of my...
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings, Nature's peace will flow into you...
With only 2.5 days around Denali, I suppose I had to be prepared for never actually seeing the highest point in North America. Cloud cover, rain and fog were all my enemies of getting a peek. This is one morning from within Denali National Park, with a clear view...
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...
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...
Stock photographers are always reminded to shoot both verticals and horizontals of their subjects because you never know which is going to fit an editors needs better. Are they looking for cover material better suited to a vertical, or a two-page spread better...
I am always a bit torn on visiting this particular spot on Lake St. Clair - the lake formed between two of our Great Lakes - Huron and Erie. I love the ice that piles up here, but it is blastin' cold every time I go out there in the winter. Yeah, yeah I know -...