I can’t get enough of back-lighting. Back-lighting can be used to create magical images (especially at sunrise or sunset when the light is a rich golden color), and it works great for both wildlife and landscape images alike. Although some photographers live by the maxim “shoot with the sun at your back,” I’m always on the
Another freakin’ humpback whale breaching photo? Well, yes, it is! I normally prefer breaching images at the peak of the whale’s trajectory, because they don’t appear as powerful in the limp-coming back down phase, let alone when the big splash happens. However, what I do like about this image is that
I was up for a 4 am sunrise as we passed close to the granite spires of Norway’s Lofoten Islands, well above the Arctic Circle. I have always loved this landscape, with cliffs rising right up from the sea, and small fishing villages clinging to the thin shoreline.
But although the usual fog was missing, there
By now, my regular readers and social networking followers are probably aware that I had engine trouble last week while using my boat on Prince William Sound for the first time. The repair bill is pretty bad, but not as catastrophic as I had initially feared. It’s par for the course
I spent the last week teaching a workshop with Art Wolfe, Gavriel Jecan, and Rich Reid in Grand Teton National Park. We decided early on that it was going to be important to teach participants that it is not necessarily the destination that is the focus when we travel. We spent two days, driving more
It’s September 1st, a milestone for photographers in the northern hemisphere. Technically it’s still summer, and in most of the United States the weather remains warm. In Yosemite the waterfalls are barely flowing, and fall color is still at least a month away.
But the the light is changing. Every day is a little shorter than
This summer I had the opportunity to shoot with some amazing runners who live and train here in Santa Fe, New Mexico for part of the year but hail from Kenya. They are among the top 30 runners in the world. Bernard Langat, Aron Rono and Caroline Rotich (pictured above) train in Santa Fe for
The Minnesota State Fair is on now, and that was always a sure sign of the end of summer when I lived there. Kids are going back to school and days are getting shorter. Still, there are a lot of flowers ready to be photographed! Prairie flowers are looking good, plus asters (like those in
This polar bear approached our ship and stayed with us for nearly an hour. During that time, I took dozens of shots with my long lenses, straining for close-ups, as if full-frame bears were somehow the gold standard. I had to force myself, in fact, to put away the big glass and try and capture
Fall comes early to arctic Svalbard. At nearly 80 degrees north, just over 600 miles from the North Pole, summer is brief, and by late August new snow is already descending from the mountain summits and will soon blanket the tundra. I had the chance this past week to shoot this golden landscape, concentrating, as
