Notes from the Field
Under the Midnight Sun
It's no surprise to those who have followed me over the years that the Moab Desert is one of my very favorite places in the world. Having lived in wet, damp and foggy places all my life like SW Florida (hurricanes and 100% humidity), Nova Scotia (fog and rain) and now...
Palouse Falls – Waterfall in the Desert
It's funny, because I know I'm not the only nature photographer who travels around the country with this problem. The light is perfect, and I'm only five minutes away! Driving like an idiot a couple of weeks ago with my wife and two young children strapped-in in the...
When Wild Animals Make People a Natural Resource
A few days ago I was driving eastward across the state of Washington across the barren sagebrush desert with my family when one of my boys needed to use the restroom. We stopped just east of Ellensburg at the Ryegrass Safety Rest Area in Kittitas County, and as...
A Bird is Three Things: Feathers, Flight and Song
A quick post for today, and a trio of brand new photos of some of North America's most beautiful coastal birds. Click on any image to enlarge. A roseate spoonbill wades through a salty mangrove marsh on Sanibel Island, Florida on a late winter morning in search of the...
Fall Colors and a White-tailed Deer in Idaho
A couple of days ago I was prowling around Chatcolet Lake in Northwestern Idaho when I came across a quarry of white-tailed deer in the most beautiful countryside I've seen in a long time. This is one of the images I brought home. White-tailed Deer with Fall Colors ~...
Desert Solitaire – Delicate Arch
A weird, lovely, fantastic object out of nature like Delicate Arch has the curious ability to remind us - like rock and sunlight and wind and wilderness - that out there is a different world, older and greater and deeper by far than ours, a world which surrounds and...
Mushrooms and Pikas and Bears – Oh My!
Last weekend I was on a more relaxed nature photography trip than my usual frenzied "cover as many miles as possible on no sleep" routine and brought a friend along with me for some camping and hiking. The first day way spent above Lake Mowich near Spray Falls area...
Mammals Galore!
Small change in the North American Nature Photography galleries! For the past 6 or 7 years, my images of mammals were divided into four sub-galleries. One for rodents, small mammals, large mammals and marine mammals. I'm not sure why I chose that odd system at the...
Those Maddening yet Delicately Beautiful Butterflies – The Gossamer-wings!
One of the most maddening and frustrating things I can to do as a working nature photographer is hunt down a group of highly excitable tiny butterflies known collectively as gossamer-wings, and get them on camera. This delicate and very beautiful butterfly family...
Leapin’ Lizards! Updates!
Quick post today to announce a small but important update to the North American Nature Photography galleries. Over the past decade, I've been collecting so many new images of native lizards in their natural environments all over the continent, that I have expanded the...
The Red-Spotted Toad of the Moab Desert
This past week I happened to be in one of my favorite places in the entire United States - Arches National Park in Eastern Utah's Moab Desert. The last time I was here last year there was a huge storm that pretty much killed any chances of getting any good...
A Wonderful Bird is the Pelican…
Quick post with some new photos this week. I'm on my way right now to Aspen, Colorado to shoot a beautiful outdoor ranch wedding with my partner and good friend Bill Metek and wanted to leave a quick post with some new work - and a limerick! Click on any of the images...