On my Svalbard expedition, we did multiple excursions to see one of the main features of the landscape: ice. Ice in the form of icebergs and glaciers. And after the morning of being harassed by birds, we loaded up into the zodiacs and headed for the ice to look around. I don’t get to shoot… Read More Ice, Ice, and More Ice
On the NorthEast side of the island of Spitsbergen at a place called Alkefjellet, there are high cliffs and ledges used by birds to breed and raise chicks in the summer months. The main bird on the cliff was the BrĂ¼nnich’s Guillemot and there were tens of thousands of them on the cliffs, in the… Read More The Bird Cliffs of Alkefjellet
I saw polar bears on my trip to Svalbard. I saw a lot of polar bears. The archipelago crawls with polar bears. I am not an experienced wildlife photographer and my camera is not considered an excellent wildlife photography camera, but I will tell you about my experience and what I tried. First, I want… Read More Polar Bears!
In Longyearbyen I boarded a ship that would sail around Svalbard and into the Arctic Ocean over the course of ten days. The ship was designed around expeditions for adventure tourism, I guess you might say. There are cabins as you might expect, as well as a dining room, lecture theater, a couple of bars… Read More Fjords and Icebergs
I have been on an adventure and I intend to blog about it over the next few weeks. My big adventure for this year was a trip to Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago and territory of Norway. The main city on Svalbard is Longyearbyen, and it is the northern most significant city (population >1000) in the… Read More My Summer Adventure
I went to New Mexico on a family vacation for a week and the main focus was not photography. I don’t have a lot to blog about from this trip, but I did have a good time. One of the first stops on my trip was Carlsbad Caverns National Park. It is one of the… Read More Photographing in Carlsbad Caverns
The next leg of my spring hiking trip had me at Saguaro National Park near Tucson Arizona. Saguaro National Park is divided into two units, the East and the West with the city of Tucson in between. Both units of the park boast miles of hiking trails through mountains and cactus forests so I was… Read More Saguaro National Park – East
I decided to arrange a spring hiking trip to some desert locations for mid-March. I targeted this time because it probably wouldn’t be brutally cold in early spring nor would it yet be very hot. I also wanted there to be a chance of wildflower blooms in the deserts. My trip started with White Sands… Read More White Sands
As you might have read in my previous blog post, I went on a trip with my daughter to see the northern lights near Yellowknife Canada. I booked a 4 night stay in Yellowknife that would give us the opportunity to see the aurora on Sunday night through Wednesday night as I had no idea… Read More Aurora
For each of my daughters’ graduation presents, I took them on a trip. With my oldest daughter, we went to Yellowstone National Park in 2019. My youngest daughter graduated in 2021 and we didn’t plan a trip because of pandemic concerns and because I was in the process of selling my house and buying another,… Read More Going Way Up North
