I’m halfway through my Rainier trip, taking a small break from camping to catch up on some admin stuff and to wait out bad weather. And when I say bad weather, I mean blue sunny skies. Not a cloud in the sky for days—most folks think that’s grand, but for us nature photographers it’s purgatory. I spent most of the first part of my trip working the west side of the park, [...]
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All right, I know I said I was going to Lake Superior, but a few things came together in the right way for a change, so now I find myself with cheap plane tickets to Spokane (thank you William Shatner—that’s Priceline folks, not Star Trek . . .) and a reservation for a cheap rental car. I hear the flowers are beginning to bloom around the mountain, so I’ll be there [...]
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I shouldn’t be writing this blog post. I should be starting my first day of backpacking on the Wonderland Trail, a 90-mile path that circles Mt. Rainier in Washington state. But, to quote the famous Burns poem, “the best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley” (the Scots have a remarkable way of torturing the English language—revenge for centuries of cultural repression, I suppose). Loose translation: shit happens. So, instead of [...]
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I spent three years photographing my book Chesapeake: Bay of Light. It was an intensely demanding project, requiring almost full-time effort, but I loved every minute of it. Well, maybe not every minute. There was that day on James Island when the greenheads, horseflies, and deer flies bit me so much my legs were bleeding. Or that ten-mile open water kayak crossing from Smith Island to the mainland during an autumn squall—now that was [...]
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