Walt is at it again!

Walt is at it again!

It is time for my now annual celebration of the fantastic photography of my friend and former student Walt Duvall. I use the world fantastic sparingly but in this case it rings true- remember the etymology of fantastic is fantasy as in unreal, as in wonderful, as in...
Fall in Vermont & Maine

Fall in Vermont & Maine

It is about that time when we all start to think about and get excited about photographing in the fall. I, for one, can never get enough fall photography- the brilliant colors, the beautiful reflections, the tumbling streams, the red, orange and yellow mountainsides-...
Giving some space- Wildlife Photography

Giving some space- Wildlife Photography

One of the things I consistently notice about wildlife photography is the desire by most wildlife photographers to get as close as they can and fill up their frame as much as they can. This is why all photographers lust after telephoto lenses and use blinds whenever...
A Feather in Indian River

A Feather in Indian River

Sometimes the simplest subjects are the most wonderful and most beautiful to photograph. Most of the times they are also the hardest to notice and hardest to make yourself photograph with everything else pulling at your visual attention. Last week I was walking up the...
Salmon

Salmon

Salmon are amazing animals, almost mystical actually. they are born in fresh water, grow to maturity in salt water and then return to their natal stream, to the very gravel bed in which they were born to spawn.  It is a journey of thousands of miles driven by a...
Sitka!

Sitka!

Hello All! About to get on a red-eye flight to Chicago from Seattle after spending the last 10 days in Sitka, Alaska teaching a Crossroads Photography Workshop. there will be more on the workshop in posts to come but I wanted to pop up a couple of my favorite images...