Spot-backed Puffbird, Canon 5D III, Canon 500mm f4L IS w/ 1.4x TC, f5.6, 1/2000th, ISO 1600. I love birding. I love bird photography. The two do not always go together as easily as one might expect. In fact, I’d say…
Tobacco Barn in Black and White
Canon 5d Mark III, Canon 17-40 f4L, handheld, ISO 400 This Tobacco drying barn at the Finca Santa Anita, south of Salta, Argentina dates back to the mid-1800s. It is built from adobe bricks and rough-cut wood beams and stands…
Transitioning
Canon 5d Mark III, tripod, 17-40 f4L, f4.0, 5sec, ISO 800. I always find it difficult to return from a trip abroad. There is something about the jet-lag, the exhaustion from hours of travel, and the return to normal life…
Postcard from Salta, Argentina
We arrived in Salta after a 17 hour bus ride from Medoza, which we reached after an 8 hour bus trip from Santiago. But I’m not looking for sympathy. These are not your Greyhound Motor-coach school of travel. No, these…
Gear for 3 weeks in South America
I once watched a photographer in an airport in southern Argentina carrying a camera backpack as big as my trekking pack while simultaneously dragging a wheeled camera case with two over-sized tripods strapped to the outside. He looked like a turtle…
Dusk Aurora
Last night, I stepped outside just before bed. It was 10:00 and still to the west, there was a broad, dusky-blue streak, the last of the lingering day. It’s getting to a point where one has to stay up pretty…
Favorite Places: Falkland Islands
A Black-browed Albatross glides over the churning waters of the South Atlantic on the coast of the Steeple Jason Island in the Falklands. Steeple Jason is home to the largest colony of Black-browed Albatross in the world. Some hundreds of…
Overnight in the White Mountains
Old friends returning for a visit to Fairbanks make a great excuse to get outside. In this case, it was a reason to escape for an overnight cabin trip into the White Mountains National Recreation Area north of Fairbanks. The…
Wow.
Last night held the best display of northern lights I have ever experienced. Huge curtain of green and purple rippled across the sky shifting first south, then north, then back again. This alone would have put the display among the…
Experimenting at the Open North American Championships
Under bright blue skies and intense sun, huge mushing teams took to the trails around Fairbanks this afternoon. I headed to Creamer’s Field where I could position myself to watch the teams race by on their way out, and then…