exploring nature’s infinite connections
As the 2024 Autumn Equinox approaches next week, I am trying to reflect on why I haven't made a post for what has essentially been all summer this year. It isn't unusual that summertime is generally my least "productive" time for photography. I found a post I had in...
Imagine, if you will, when you are born, right on your birth certificate - you are given an account number, a revolving line of credit. But instead of a financial one, it is an ecological one. Let's assume it starts with a zero balance. Even though bringing you into...
Fifty-thousand watts! That is an amount of power that I typically only associate with some warning on a big red sign at an electrical plant or the laboratory of Dr. Frankenstein. Yet, on a regular basis, I now see it on the dashboard of my car. Only I am not trying to...
Last Sunday, I finished a 9-day training course with the Climate Reality Project. It was virtual for the first time this year due to the pandemic, but also enabled them to train 10,000 new people around the world in a little more than a week. They join the existing...
Pandemic stay-at-home boredom is impacting me a bit. It has also been hard to keep focus. I have about 5 posts sitting in draft right now that I keep coming back to, making changes, adding, and then hitting writer's block. My photography output is pretty low, even in...
More plastic than fish by weight by 2050. That is just an amazingly horrifying prediction. For sure, in a year where "alarming trends" seem to be hitting us from everywhere, it is easy to feel numb by now. The year 2020 may just well go down in history unmatched in...
Well, I made it to Month #2 of my month-end summaries. If you came here wondering what is a Monthly Leaf Pile, it is something I just recently started in April 2020 to look back on various happenings throughout the month. It is a way to reflect upon and also reveal...
During this strange time in the world, I find myself wandering my archives a bit more aimless than usual. Coincidentally with the recent religious holiday, I stumbled on this older image I created in 2012 and never developed it further. I just didn't know what to do...
Last year, a new organization called "Nature First" was formed. It is a collection of incredibly passionate, caring, and dedicated nature photographers who want to spread the education of field ethics. We create more than 1.2 trillion digital photographs a year, going...