exploring nature’s infinite connections
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...
Bear and river, Kinak Bay, Katmai National Park, Alaska Hard to believe months have already gone by and I am still digging out favorites from my trip to Katmai National Park in Alaska. Bears are such amazing animals, I still feel quite privileged to have had the...
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,...
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...
Processing bear photos continues.... I thought this was an interesting portrait in how you do not see the bear's eyes, but my attention is drawn almost immediately to the claws. I wondered if this was an instinctual reaction to a threat. Similar to the way people...
What??!! A week has gone by and I haven't posted about any bears? 🙂 Well, this post certainly breaks that bad streak. Of course I am still editing and processing images from Alaska. This particular image has a lot of qualities that I like about it....
I previously wrote about a nice Photoshop plugin from Topaz Labs called Topaz Adjust in these posts. It remains one of those plugins that I tend to use as a playground to explore possibilities. Sometimes it works for a particular image, sometimes I don't care for...
I suppose it is only natural that one feels quite small when in some place with so many grand features as Alaska. You can get these feelings pretty much no matter where you are at however. Just look up into a star filled sky or even that large tree in 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...