exploring nature’s infinite connections
Somehow this evening I ended up in my unprocessed folder from my 2009 trip to Alaska. As I poked around a bit reflecting back on how great it was spending so much time around bears, I decided to bring a few out for processing and putting up in my gallery. These...
This image is a survivor from a recent culling of my brown bear photos from my Alaska trip so long ago ago now. I have developed sufficient detachment from many of these images that I can edit rather ruthlessly. Yeah, I still have a lot to delete. Many still...
Lately it seems like I have had a bit of attention deficit disorder in my posts and in my photography as well. In between working some orders for clients, I would pick a few images, work on them, get a bit bored, and move on to something new. I have probably...
Hard to believe I didn't introduce this big guy to you folks sooner. Obviously from my bear trip last fall, but this particular bear made quite an impression for obvious reasons. Not only was this male boar huge, but the scar across his nose gave him, well to put...
I have read a lot of articles and writeups about folks who advocate shooting only RAW file formats and those who shoot JPEGs only. For the most part, I say - to each his own. It doesn't really matter to me what others shoot with. There is one aspect however,...
Just as I did for 2007 and 2008, I suppose it is only fitting for me to take on looking back at the year of images I made in 2009. Most of them can be considered as favorites, but mostly they represent some significant direction I took with my photography...
Yes, another bear photo! 🙂 This image communicates something entirely different than my previous one on bear claws, but they still attract attention eh? This is "Mom" brown bear taking a little time away from the kids for some maintenance of those claws - a...
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...
Another high ISO image here, ISO 2500, not necessarily used for a high action moment, but simply because of fairly low light. Shot at 400mm at f4, even at ISO 2500 my shutter speed was only 1/200 sec. This cute little guy was also scratching quite a bit. At...