Metal and paper prints are now available here on my website!

Last year about this time, I realized that things were not going to plan. The 2020 dumpster fire was starting to stink, and my planned summer of photography workshops and wilderness trips in Alaska was bursting into flame. A lot of the last year really sucked. But, being the optimist I am, I started to look a bit further into the future. What did I want my workshop schedule to look like a couple of years down the road? What kind of opportunities are going to excite people, and excite me? Turns out that asking myself that question led me to some interesting answers. Three answers, actually. I've put together three new, and entirely novel photo workshops for 2022. I'm fired up about them, and I think you will be too.

I've just hit posted a new ebook in a new series, I'm calling Visual Monographs. I guess you might consider them galleries, or even portfolios, but I consider them a celebration of place. 

I feel like I should add a question mark after this post title: Highlights of 2020? Implying, that there weren't really any. Of course, that isn't entirely true. Every year, even 2020, had moments of beauty. 

I don't print as often as I'd like, or as often as I should. But when I do, it's always a bit of a thrill to see my images in a more tangible form than a digital screen. Seeing an entire gallery's worth of images printed in high quality and bound in a durable leather and acrylic cover, is even better.

With the world filled with fear, anxiety, and danger over the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic, I was very pleased to get a bit of good news a week ago: I’ve been invited back to instruct during Camp Denali’s Photography Emphasis Week in 2021!

You think you know what Africa is before you travel there. We have so many preconceived notions of the place from abundant nature documentaries and magazine articles. But you don't know. You don't know anything. Until, that is, you arrive there.

Interested in checking out my tour and workshop offerings in a format a little easier to browse than a website? Well then check out the new downloadable PDF brochure for my 2019-2020 trip offerings. 

Each fall, Amy and I make a trip to Homer, Alaska. It's a way to break up the end of my busy summers, spend some time next to the water, and enjoy one of our favorite towns in the state.

During the first few days of September, I guided a small group of highly skilled photographers up to the Brooks Range.

When asked my favorite river to canoe in Alaska, my unhesitating response is the Noatak. The headwaters of the Noatak River gather water out of the western part of Gates of the Arctic National Park and then flow westward toward the Bering Sea.

Slight shifts in how you pan your camera can result in dramatic changes to the image. Making lots of photos

Thanks everyone for yet again selling out both itineraries of my 2019 Arctic Aurora Workshops! And apologies to those of you who were still hoping to get a spot for next year.

I've just released a new eBook about my travels in Botswana. It's 90 pages long, and is full of images, anecdotes, and vignettes about the photographic experience on safari in northern Botswana, and tips for the traveling photographer.

A piece I wrote for the Digital Photography School was published yesterday, and it drew a quick response. Many comments have been made, both praising the piece, and questioning some of what I claimed in the article.

As I'm planning my 2019 return to Botswana leading a private customized tour, and working out an itinerary and marketing for the 2020 photo tour, I've been fielding a few questions about safari life. Here is what you need to know about going on safari with me Botswana:

No one ever complains that their feet are too comfortable or too well protected from the elements. I've led hundreds of trips in Alaska, and I've heard many complaints, but not that one. Not once.

My first wilderness trip of the summer guiding season for Arctic Wild was a river I'd paddled once previously. It's not a river that gets a lot of traffic, and yet it may be the finest canoe trip in the state. And I don't say that lightly; we have a lot of great canoe trips here in Alaska.

I've returned recently from a trip to a new part of Alaska for me. That's saying something at this point because I'm starting to feel like I've experience a pretty high proportion of this state.

If for some bizarre reason, you haven't yet signed up for my newsletter, you really should. The Summer 2018 issue went out a few days ago and I've made it viewable HERE as well.