The Coal Creek Dredge is a hulking, land-chewing, industrial caterpillar. Dormant now, the beast sits idle in the center of Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, a legacy to the mining history of the park. It’s an ugly thing, operated on and off…
Black and White in Bad Light
A few years ago I was traveling in Bolivia. The trip was dedicated largely to photography and I spent time in many parts of that diverse, beautiful, and wonderful country. A photographic highlight was the high plateau of the Atacama…
Considering the World in Black and White
On Saturday, Amy and I gathered some lunch materials and and made the short drive to the top of Murphy Dome, about 20 miles from our home north of Fairbanks. Amy was equipped with a sketchbook and watercolors, I with…
Brooks Range Valley in Black and White
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…