Alyce Bender |Nature Photographer

Because I was in Japan for so many weeks and I bounced around as the weather dictated, I am going to share the images based on subject rathe

The majority of my shooting came from my childhood town of Gainesville, Florida. Home to the University of Florida, I grew up roaming the pi

Over the last five weeks I have been bouncing around the Pacific Coast states and the Southwestern US. Such a mix of environments at this ti

Ah September! The month where autumn starts, cool evenings appear and the northern areas of North America are starting to get their first sn

Due to the giant submarine canyon and the various marine environments found around Monterey Bay, this area is a hotbed for marine and coasta

July was filled with highs and lows. Bouncing between Monterey and Las Vegas has taken much of my time this past month, leading to days where I would face a ...

I would like to introduce you to some locations in Southern Nevada that are excellent for wildlife and landscape photography. Here are my to

May, like so many other months was filled with activities. However, there were only a handful of photography adventures that netted images t

Hometown adventures were the name of the game since I spent the entire month in Las Vegas, dealing with business administration type duties,

Wow! What a short month February turned out to be! So much went on that it seemed before I could blink or catch my breath, March was already

January seemed to fly by while I was on the road. It's interesting that with all the travel I have been doing, I always seem to know wha

During this year of wondering I was determined to capture images of American mustangs in the wild. Arizona was my jumping off point and did

As photography is a creative pursuit, every photographer's personal life does impact them in their craft somehow. For me, my personal li

It seems this month has both dragged on as well as sped by.  While it seems like December 1st was just yesterday, here I sit reviewing the m

November was a month on the road for me. I spent my time exploring Arizona, making a big loop from Davis Dam down to the Superstitions east

What a month! It started out with me traveling through Nevada in the RV with my pups, transitioned into an adventure in the Scottish Highlan

I would like to introduce my readers to the Japanese traditional calendar which breaks the year into 24 seasonal divisions and 72 micro-seas

Up to this point I have shared where to go for the endangered Red Crowned Crane and what to expect when photographing the vulnerable Steller

I left off the last post getting ready to head away from the endangered Red Crowned Cranes and Kushiro for the northeastern coast of Hokkaid

I finally got some time to sit down and write a review of the amazing winter wildlife expedition in Hokkaido I embarked on back in February