Recently, I found a story in my own backyard. It started with a dark-eyed junco behaving oddly in the sage…

This weekend, the ocean foiled my plans again. But once again, a barn swallow was the hero…

The initial reaction, a small involuntary recoil, lasted only as long as it took to glance at the tail and confirm the absence of a rattle…

At a glance, he looked peaceful asleep, but a closer look told a different story…

Our goal was to see one of the ocean’s oldest, most efficient predators: the great white shark…

It was low tide, a new moon, and the sky was clear. Conditions were ideal. All we needed was some color…

Over the Christmas break, I set an intention to photograph sandhill cranes in the Delta…

Reducing a year’s worth of work down to nine images is never easy, but the process always reveals patterns…

The problem that I have with this shot is in that you’ve completely blocked the most important subject here…

Even when I think I’ve managed the considerations well, there’s still a lot of hoping for the best…

Sometimes getting the shot isn't as important as getting the experience…

Before boarding the Salty Lady, our naturalist reminded us to leave our expectations on the dock as every trip is different…

I’d been sleeping on the opportunity to glimpse the unfamiliar marine life that gather in basins of seawater along the shore…

Our trip to Skye was always going to be about landscapes, but I was surprised by how much wildlife we encountered…

I was struck by the fact that you could live in Skye your whole life and never run out of things to photograph…

It had been a long time since I’d really practiced landscape photography, and I felt rusty…

After a day of empty memory cards, I figured I might as well take the shot. Then I noticed something special…

As long as I’ve lived in the Bay Area, the Farallon Islands have been on the periphery of my vision, literally and figuratively…

For nature photographers, iNaturalist is an absolute game-changer…

Condors are the largest raptors in North America, but that doesn’t mean finding one would be easy…