I wandered down to Padre Island National Seashore a couple of weeks ago to see the beach and do some kayaking in the Laguna Madre. Padre Island is a barrier island just off the Texas coast and the strip of water between the island and the mainland is shallow and calm and ideal for some… Read More Kayaking with Shorebirds
In the Arctic there is a bird that looks like it face-planted in a clown’s make-up kit. People love to see this bird and when I was on my expedition there was quite the talk about whether or not we would find them. It turns out that on our rainy last afternoon we did finally… Read More A Puffin Piece
After icebergs we returned to the fjords in the north of Spitsbergen island. I woke up early, as usual, and went up on deck to see what there was to see. I could see land in the distance, but on the other side of the boat the sun was shining bright and there were seabirds… Read More A Return to the Fjords
After leaving Kvitoya, we sailed all “night” to find the sea ice and I woke up a little after 5:00AM and wandered up on deck to see if we had found the ice. We had indeed found lots of ice and there was even some sunlight making its way through the fog on the east… Read More 81° 43’ 29” North
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 Brünnich’s Guillemot and there were tens of thousands of them on the cliffs, in the… Read More The Bird Cliffs of Alkefjellet
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
As we were leaving Carlsbad Caverns National Park, we saw some desert bighorn sheep from the park road. When I saw the bighorn sheep, I turned the car around and headed back up the road to a pull-out. I grabbed my camera and mounted the long-lens then headed back down the road so the bighorns… Read More Desert Bighorn Sheep
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
I had the day off and woke up at 5:00 AM. Sunrise is at around 6:30 AM and according to the forecast it was going to be a partly cloudy morning before rain moved in later in the day. So, that left me enough time to get out to the wildlife refuge and hike up… Read More Gray Morning, Gray Photos
Jason Frels 