3 Photography Guidelines to Keeping it Simple
The light and wildlife wait for no man. So my photography shooting model is: GO FAST, GO LIGHT, GO SIMPLE. These are not mind-blowing, advanced techniques. They are just simple…
Details
From the Archives: A Once in a Lifetime Photo
Photo Credit: Heather Williams The year was 2007 — my musher friend Melissa Owens was 17 years old and training for her very first Iditarod out of her home in…
Details
Using Auto ISO: when, how and why on earth would you do such a thing?
More and more, with wildlife photography I find myself using auto-ISO setting in order to maintain a fast enough shutter speed to either stop my subject OR to stop camera/lens…
Details
Happy Dog Sticker
I am ecstatic to announce that Alaskan artist Amanda Rose Warren and I have collaborated this summer to make a new combined artwork that we just released this week…
Details
How to Improve Your Creative Photography Skills with a Self-Assignment
How to Increase Your Creative Skills in Photography — Both the ART & SCIENCE Sides. Want to increase your overall creative skill in photography? Want to increase your “compositional skills”…
Details
Alaska Travel Tip: Portage Pass in Prince William Sound
There’s a lot of what I call my really favorite places in Alaska. A lot. And this is indeed one of them. One of many. That’s why I live here.…
Details
Top 10 Locations to Photograph Bears in Alaska
ALASKA BROWN & GRIZZLY BEARS: Where to Find them & What to Bring Many people love photographing bears. Especially the Alaska grizzly bear or Brown bear. It seems the…
Details
How to Choose a Tripod- for Landscape & Wildlife Photographers
Top 7 Things to Look for When Choosing a Tripod: For Landscape & Wildlife Photographers Yes, a tripod is an absolute necessity for many types of photography BUT it is…
Details
Location, Location, Location: Finding unique areas for landscape and wildlife photographers.
You’ve very likely heard that phrase before. Wikipedia tells us it’s a cliché used by property experts. It’s the three most important factors in determining the desirability of a property —-…
Details
5 Best Places to Photograph the Aurora in Alaska
If you live in Alaska or plan to come here to photograph the Northern lights (a.k.a. the aurora borealis) there are a number of good places that I like to…
Details
Behind the Scenes: What it took to create this iconic Iditarod image of Aliy Zirkle at Sunset
This is one of those quintessential Iditarod photos that I’ve strived to create many times over my 40 years of photographing the race. A Dog Musher with a fireball sunset.…
Details
GOING MIRRORLESS — The features that convinced me I had to switch from Canon DSLR to Canon Mirrorless.
As you know, the mirrorless cameras have been out for quite some time now. And the technology they use continues to get spectacularly better and better on every iteration with…
Details
It’s NOT about the F-Word … (F-Stop that is) OR– Do the camera settings REALLY matter?
“If you’re out there, shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there shooting, you’ll only hear about it.” “As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is…
Details