Happy Holidays!
Happiest of holidays to all and best wishes for a fantastic 2026.
Go With The Flow
Looking out my office window at dawn this morning, I saw dense fog. Excited, I grabbed my photo backpack, jumped into Rusty, and drove over to Mount Pisgah Arboretum. Forest and fog is one of my favorite photo subjects. I...Read More
Fall Color in the Oregon Cascades
It's looking like 2025 is a banner year for photographing fall color in Oregon's Cascade Mountains. I spent a delightful day cruising Aufderheide Memorial Drive, aka West Cascades Scenic Byway, aka Forest Road 19, and found conditions better than I...Read More
Photographing Wildlife Close To Home
Sometimes I travel many miles in search of wildlife. And sometimes I remember there are critters to photograph not far from home. Like this Nutria swimming at Delta Ponds in Eugene. Nutria, or coypu, are originally from South America. They...Read More
Fort Rock, Oregon
Rising up out of surrounding sagebrush desert, Fort Rock is a towering jagged rock formation, technically a tuff ring, set in an ancient seabed. It is also perhaps the most famous anthropological site in Oregon, as a pair of 9,000–year...Read More
Podcast Interview
My friend and fellow Muench Workshops pro Matt Payne has interviewed a great many photographers who I consider to be among the very best in the nature and landscape genre. So it was a great honor when Matt asked me...Read More
Mount Rainier Timed-Entry Permits
Summer 2025 Update: This year the timed entry permits are only required for the Sunrise Corridor on the northeast side of the park. Permits are no longer required at the west side Nisqually Entrance or the southeast entrance at Ohanacopesh....Read More
Using AI for Photography
Racoon in Asilomar State Park, California, USA. This photo was made with AI. No, I didn't go online and prompt some wizard to produce an image of a raccoon in a forest, but I took advantage of some amazing technology...Read More
Cat and Kittens
The Cat and Kittens sea stacks at Bandon Beach on the southern Oregon Coast. Penelope and I spent a few days at Bandon on the southern Oregon Coast this week. Bandon Beach has been one of our favorite places in...Read More
Isle of Lewis and Harris
When Muench Workshops asked me if I would lead a photo workshop on the Isle of Lewis and Harris in Scotland, I said "Sure!" without having the vaguest idea about where it was or what was there. I soon found...Read More