After 220 days of travel in 2024, I slowed my pace in 2025 and found something unexpected. Returning to familiar places, working with smaller groups, and choosing experience over accumulation reshaped how I photograph and how I teach. This year became a reminder that photography is not about doing more, but about seeing more, learning deeply, and showing up with intention.

There’s a unique rhythm to photographing nature’s extremes—the frost on a leaf and the caribou crossing a ridge. In this guide, I share how I plan a single trip to capture both ends of that spectrum, from macro to mammals, using a lightweight two-lens setup, location strategy, and ethical field practices that let nature lead the story.

Ok, we all know I'm not ever going to be a song writer but the long hours, cruising along the roads that connect Nome to the three other vil

A few days before the summer solstice, there is enough light to photograph 24/7, making nature photography in Nome, Alaska, very rewarding.

Even as months have passed now, the Alaskan landscape still looms large in my memory. Having arrived in Alaska early mid-August and staying

It can be quite hard to visualize how vast Alaska is if you have not been there before. And with the large numbers of photographers who go t

"Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop." ~ Ansel Adams Thinking back to the start of 2020, I don't think anyone expe

August always seems to be THE time for large photographic trips. So many photographers I know either run or attend workshops and/or tours in