Rules of our Youth
Rules for everything! When I was very young, there were rules for everything. Do this. Don’t do that. One of my parents’ favorites was I [...]
Gorilla Carnival
The Setup To photograph Mountain Gorillas, you must want it. It is hard trip, hard to get to Uganda, hard to get to our hotel [...]
Safari Landscapes
A summary of the conditions at the Equator Kenya sits on the equator, creating an interesting atmosphere on the horizon both at sunrise [...]
The Crossing
Tourists flock to the Maasai Mara every August for the great migration. Tens of thousands of animals migrate across the plains of the Serengeti of [...]
Finally Bears
Until now we have been shut out of bears. For a trip that professes to be a whales and bears trip, disappointment was setting in. [...]
A Morning with Bears
It was going to be epic. The salmon were plentiful in the stream, the brown bears hungry from hibernation, photographers lined up with telephoto lenses, [...]
The Beauty of the Tundra
On the Tundra Our Polar Bear destination, Seal River Lodge, sits on the Hudson Bay roughly 60 miles north of Churchill, Manitoba. On one side [...]
Love, Polar Bear Style
What comes to mind when you think about a polar bear? Smart? Bears are known to be very smart with a long memory. Large? Females [...]
The Story of the Lilac Breasted Roller
The Lilac Breasted Roller, LBR to those in the know, is one of the most beautiful birds on the planet, indigenous to the southern portions [...]
The Waiting Game
The Waiting Game Rarely (if ever) is the picture perfect scene of an iconic location ready for me to walk up and "click" my photo. [...]