The shortest days of the year have brought along a solid cold snap here in Fairbanks. Yesterday morning temperatures in town hit -48F. Ice fog engulfed most of town in a stinky, choke-inducing haze, and I did my best to…
Publication: South Georgia Island Photo Essay
I’ve just had a photo essay on South Georgia Island published at the Matador Network, a really cool site for travel information, stories and and an active community. Definitely worth checking out my piece, of course, but also the many…
Black and White in Black and White
Fairbanks is experiencing the first decent snow storm of the winter right now. We received about 4 inches yesterday and another 10, at least, have fallen so far today. It is beautiful, and the trees are drooping with snow, until…
On Photography Part III: Interesting Things
Now we are delving into the meat of this thing. Photography is about interesting things. Now I wish I could quit right there, but unfortunately that isn’t the end of the story. Interesting things are EVERYWHERE. I’m sure there is…
On Photography Part II: The Tools of the Trade
Photography tools are not limited to the cameras, lenses, tripods, filters, flashes, lighting accessories, computers, and software, but let’s start there. First of all you don’t really NEED most of that shit. What you NEED to be a photographer is…
On Photography- Part I: An Introduction
Today I begin a series of rants on photography and creativity. I write these posts not as an expert, but as someone who is daily struggling with the artistic process of photography. If you manage to survive the reading of…
There are nights…
There are nights when things just go right, and for two reasons, last night was one of them. Reason #1: After thinking it wouldn’t arrive after all, my brand new Canon 5D Mark III complete with a 14mm f2.8 lens…
From the Archives: Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni
I’ve recently been spending some time going through old images, processing images that for one reason or another I haven’t ever looked at in detail, discarding images, and generally conducting some house-cleaning in my Lightroom Archive. This is an image…
Aniuk River Stone
This is one of my favorite images from my 17 day trip down the Noatak River in August. We’d paddled through days of bad weater (see my previous posts on the trip here and here), and then we arrived at…
Intentional Blur
So much photography discussion revolves around how to increase the sharpness of your images. It’s an unspoken rule: good images need to be sharp. But like all rules, it is one that should sometimes be broken. Blur can be a…