Despite a promising forecast for last night, the aurora did not burst to light in the intensity, I and other Alaska photographers and aurora watchers had hoped. I did venture out to make a few images of the subtly shifting lights. Unfortunately…
Winter in Alaska has unquestionably lovely light. The main problem is that there isn’t a lot of it. We are down to a mere six and half hours of sunlight per day and dropping at a rate of 6 minutes…
If you encounter me in the field, you’ll likely find the lens of my camera uncovered by any filter. UV filters just add a layer of unneeded glass, warming filters have limited use, colored filters, in the rare times I’d…
Right now, I’m building up the financial and mental fortitude to invest in a new camera body. Buying an expensive piece of gear is a slow process for me, I hem and haw, justify it one way, then justify the…
I was out walking the dog on Halloween evening, on a local trail loop I often take from my cabin. It was dusk when we started out, and for 40 minutes or so, I was walking mostly by the light…
This morning I was browsing through an old hard drive that I hadn’t hooked up in years and stumbled on several sets of images that for one reason or another, hadn’t been transferred into my current storage system. Among those…
It’s going to be a lot easier to face the cold and dark of the coming winter if that darkness continues to be filled with auroral skies. It went off again early last night. The clouds rolled in and obscured…
This is the cover to the ebook I’ve just completed. It’s available HERE on my website for only $4.99 or 50% off if you want to share it on your social networks (just follow the share option at checkout). There…
I have a hard time with the in-between seasons. It’s a rough time of year, this late autumn, early winter, or whatever it is you choose to call it. The leaves are off the trees, littered across the ground like…
I just returned from a week long trip to Colorado. In my non-photographic and writing life, I love to ride and race bicycles. I took advantage of this trip to ride in a couple of cyclocross races around Denver. Great…