The Columbia Gorge is the fourth installment of Finding My Way Home. To view the previous installment, click here. If you wish to start from the beginning, click here. This is the ongoing story of the six years I spent as a vagabond photographer....
As I considered this year's "best of" post, it almost seemed like an oxymoron. How could 2020, which I've deemed the "lost year," have a best of? But then, as I looked through the photographs I've taken in 2020, I realized that the year was not lost at all. Yet, I...
It's been more than a year now since I made the decision to move to the Klamath Basin and work on wildlife conservation, appreciation and awareness. When I decided to take that next step in my life, I knew it wasn't going to be easy, There is much work to be done in...
It's that time again. Time to re-live the past year, photographically speaking. What a year it's been! It's always difficult to narrow down my favorites to just ten, but this year was even more challenging because of all the wonderful photographic opportunities that...
Lately, I've been asking myself why. There are so many things in this world that need to be done, why is it that I chose nature photography. What is the reason this obsession cannot be denied? After much reflection and introspection, this is what came to...
At the northernmost end of the Great Basin in western North America lies Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Set aside in 1908 as a bird sanctuary by President Theodore Roosevelt, and added to over the century since, Malheur today consists of 187,757 acres of wildlife...
When I first went on the road in 2014, Proxy Falls was on my list of possible waterfalls to visit. That autumn, I chose a different route and ended up in the Columbia River Gorge. With my appetite for waterfall photography thoroughly satiated, I put Proxy Falls on the...
Not long ago, I was sitting outside at sunset, watching the swallows fluttering and swooping around catching bugs in flight. Every so often, two swallows would zero in on the same bug, causing a near collision in mid-air. This would result in some unhappy squawking...
On Sunday and Monday, March 11th and 12th 2018, whales entered the Smith River in northern California. To be honest, I don't know for sure if there were multiple whales or just one, but there were at least three different times over two days when a whale was in the...