Alyce Bender |Nature Photographer

This has long been a method I have used when I have time to burn in the field. It's a way to slow down your shooting and really take in

There is so much you can do at home with macro. All you need is a macro lens, like the Tamron 90mm Macro f/2.8 Di (which is the lens I used

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

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

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

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

As a whole, the Faroe Islands are stark and harsh environment for shooting and exploring. However, with a bit of prep work, the proper gear,

Iceland, so many photographers and travelers have already been but yet there is so much to see that it keeps them coming back. That being said, this was my first visit to the island country and my initial impressions were mixed. Now, I was in country for ten days and while that may seem a good bit of time, Iceland, for the photographer, is a very large area to cover. Yes, theoretically you can complete the entire Ring Road (Iceland's main highway that circles the island) in t

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

As it is almost the end of another year, I thought it appropriate to review my work, choosing some of the best images from 2018. Many you ma

So when I found out that my husband and I were moving to Japan, my excitement was off the charts. It was at that moment I made myself a prom

For four days he lead a small group of other photographers, including myself, around this area of Washington, giving us views of back roads,

Shared between Oregon and Washington, the Columbia River Gorge is one of the premier landscape photography meccas of the United States. Beau

The Great Smoky Mountain National Park is the most visited National Park in the park system with over 11 million visitors a year! That is a

With over a week of overcast skies and a chill in the air, I thought it would be suitable to write about fall foliage in the Hakkoda Mountai

Bali. That far off, tropical island, so many people hear about visiting. Lush jungles filled with monkeys and volcanoes in the distance. Bea

Oirase Gorge, located at the base of the Hakkoda Mountains in Japan and within the boundaries of the Towada-Hachimantai National Park, has t