Photo Gear for your Boat Trip

I am about to go off to Alaska on a small boat trip through Glacier Bay National Park with 8 other people. Glacier Bay is one of the very few National Parks that I have never been to and that I have always wanted to go. I can remember being 16 and getting a photo book...
Getting Ready for Fall

Getting Ready for Fall

August is one of the slow months for photographers. Not much is going on in the US unless you go north and work the high mountains. Almost everywhere else the pretty green lushness of early summer has faded and the landscape looks more tattered than fantastic. Of...
New Workshop Concept!

New Workshop Concept!

In case you have been wondering why I have been relatively quiet these past few months (or in case you’ve been thankful!) the time has come for the unofficial official announcement of the new workshop concept I have been working along with my two great photo...
Thoughts and News

Thoughts and News

It’s been a bit of time since I last blogged so I thought I would give you all (both of you! Hi Mom!) a warning that in the days to come I am going to ramp up my posts. Now would be a good time to go on vacation to an internet dead spot or have your house...
My younger days- part 2

My younger days- part 2

I was going through some more of my very early images and I noticed a few that particularly moved me. They were pictures I had taken in 1986 when I lived in Corvallis, Oregon and they were for the very first book that I did- Ancient Forests. Looking at these pictures...
My Younger Days- Part 1

My Younger Days- Part 1

I was going through some of my older images I have on my laptop (a subset of the images on my desktop) and I noticed a distinct trend in my pictures I took 20 or more years ago- many were seriously flawed. Not all of them but of the ones I kept, which were the ones...