Canon 5D Mark III, Canon 24-105 f4L IS, 105mm, f8.0, 1/100th sec, ISO 400, handheld, black and white conversion in Adobe Lightroom. The Brooks Range is filled with tiny little valleys that cut into the mountains. Each is unique, some…
I’d like to introduce you to my dog, Maddie. She’s an 80lb Flat-coat Retriever, with maybe another breed or two thrown in for variety. She isn’t going to win the Nobel Prize anytime soon, but she’s sweet and enthusiastic about…
Each fall Fairbanks hosts the Equinox Marathon. It’s primarily a trail race that carries runners on a long loop through the forested hills on the west side of town. It includes a brutal 2000+ foot climb up Ester Dome, the…
I need your help. I want to turn the Wild Imagination Jounral into something more than it is, and to do that, I need your input. I’m looking to expand my readership by providing the kind of articles and content…
Busy weekend. On Friday I flew down to Anchorage, bought a car, drove it back to Fairbanks, packed for a camping trip, then on Sunday headed down to the Denali Highway in the new car. We camped for the night…
Canon 5D iii, Canon 24-105 f4L IS, ISO 400, f8.0, 105mm, 1/640th sec, handheld. This August, for the third year in a row, I guided a canoe trip down the Noatak River in Gates of the Arctic National Park for Arctic…
Canon 5D Mark III, Canon 500mm f4L IS, 1.4x TC, ISO 800, f8.0, 1/4000th sec. I spent very little time this summer photographing wildlife. In part that’s due to the fact that I’m often weight-limited on my backcountry journeys. The…
Sun halo and the Kongakut River in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. Canon 5D Mark III, 24-105L f4 IS, ISO 50, 24mm, f9.0, 1/500th sec. I purposely underexposed this image by several stops to blacken the mountains and increase…
When I first saw the Kokolik River from the approaching bush plane, I was disappointed. The undramatic river flows quickly out of the Brooks Range and does not become large enough to float a canoe until it is well away…
Today I launch a series of posts reliving my summer’s travels. Since I was woefully absent here throughout the summer, I’m now given the opportunity to make up for it. Starting right here on the Kokolik River. The Kokolik is…