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Alaska

Bristol Bay Photo Exhibit

I’m honored to announce the opening of a collaborative art exhibit between my favorite sculpturist, Maygen Jannetta, and myself. The opening celebration is 5-7pm Friday, April 15th at the Pratt Museum in Homer, Alaska. If you can’t join us then, don’t worry the exhibit will be on display until June 26th, 2011. I’ll post some [...]

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Moose Macro

I had an opportunity on one particularly rainy winter day in Homer to photograph a young moose up close. Very close. It’s not a story that would make a wildlife photographer very proud. . . I walked out of my office to get more snacks from the kitchen and there he was, right outside the [...]

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20 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill

I’m in the Anchorage airport on my way home. But don’t tell anyone . . . I’m smuggling hazardous waste on the flight. The toxic waste is 80 pounds of rocks from the beaches in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The photo above tells the story quicker than I can with words.  Let me just tell [...]

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Air to air photos of MD 530 helicopter

I remember walking out of the post office and looking up to catch just a glimpse of the small yellow helicopter zipping by overhead. For the months since, anytime I’ve heard the beating of helicopter rotors I jump up and scurry to the windows with binoculars. This little fixation started before the MD 530 came [...]

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Thankful for. . .

I’m not much into the holidays. I remember my distaste for them starting when I was young. Life was going along so merrily then suddenly there was an interruption, an intrusion, a holiday. It was Christmas, I couldn’t just spend the whole day doing whatever I liked. .no this was a ‘special day’ meaning that [...]

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