If there is one given concerning my camping trips it is that I will forget to bring along a pen to write with. After all, why would I need a pen in the great outdoors? Well, the most immediate reason is to fill out a campsite registration form, or a backcountry permit, one of which […]

I need to take time out from my photo trip posts to pay tribute to a very dear friend from a past life. Most of you have never heard of Brie (rhymes with “cry”), but I have to do this, so please bear with me. Before I moved to Seattle, I lived in Dallas for […]

Last week we talked about all the reasons we shouldn’t feed the wildlife while hiking and backpacking. This week we’ll look at a different way of, um, supplying the animals with nutrients. Last October I joined four Mountaineer friends on a trek of sorts to The Enchantments, a gorgeous area in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, […]

In a way, I wish I had never had the opportunity to get this image. Sure, it’s a beautiful red fox, up close and personal, and I didn’t have any red fox images prior to this. But it’s the way I had to get the image that bothers me. I had just finished shooting in […]

I cannot believe it’s been almost four years since my last trip to Yosemite! Well, it was time to go back, and Southwest Airlines wanted to make it cheap and easy, so I booked a trip. But this time would be different. Four years ago I wasn’t much of a camper/hiker/backpacker/snowshoer/scrambler, so I stayed in […]

Well, it was bound to happen. My site has only been up for a few weeks, and already some idiot in France with a rogue bot has found me. Apparently these attacks on WordPress-based sites, masked as the work of the Microsoft Bing search crawler, have been going on for at least a year now. […]

One of the advantages of being in my newsletter “club” is that you have access to some of the dirty little secrets that sometimes accompany my images. Yep, it’s true – not everything in my image gallery is exactly what it seems. But first let’s talk about the contest. I seem to be on a […]

I’d like you to meet my little friend, a golden-mantled ground squirrel who lives in Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park in the Canadian Rockies. He came out from his den while I was photographing in the area to inquire about snacks. Now the thing you have to understand about this area is that it is grizzly […]

About a month ago, I came across a contest that I just had to enter. I don’t enter many contests, especially if there is an entry fee, but this one was different. The theme was Color Story, and they were looking for colorful images. It was to be juried by Seth Resnick, one of North […]

As an employee of Getty Images in Seattle (as a Software Developer, not a Photographer), I often thought it would be cool to also be a contributor of imagery as well. People say it’s rather difficult to get images accepted at Getty, so I thought it would be a nice honor to belong to that […]

Hi, and welcome to my blog! I am a Seattle based photographer, and I do a fair amount of traveling and backpacking to get the images you see on this site. I’ve noticed over the years that many of my images have stories behind them that my friends seem to enjoy hearing. So, I thought, […]