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.

March found me in my fourth country of the year: Costa Rica. A wildly diverse tour with extensive avian and macro species, this trip report

With two weeks in Costa Rica, we explored several different environments and photographed a wide variety of wildlife of all shapes and size