For Joe

. The weekend was winding down and the weather wasn’t all that great but I was feeling the need to capture some pixels.  As I was pondering what to photograph my daughter happened to be coming up the stairs and the light hitting her from the staircase window caught my interest. I’m much more comfortable photographing critters and landscapes but once in awhile I venture out of my comfort zone and try to...

Thinking back to Summer

. The current issue of the BT Journal arrived in the mail yesterday.  As I removed it from its envelope, I caught a quick glance of the cover and immediately smiled, as it was a grizzly bear from Brooks Falls, Alaska.  My mind raced back to that trip this past summer where my wife, Janet and I met up with had with Moose, Sharon and Jake Peterson at Brooks Camp. Looking at that photograph, just a single frozen...

It’s about the Light

. I awoke to a fresh dusting of new snow.  A I was making coffee I happened to glance out onto the deck as the early morning light was dancing across the fresh snow and this is what caught my eye. Many times we go out hunting for a photograph and miss the most important element of what a makes a good photograph – the Light!  Photography is often refereed to as painting with light and as photographers the...