A Story in the Sage
Recently, I found a story in my own backyard. It started with a dark-eyed junco behaving oddly in the sage…
Best Laid Plans
This weekend, the ocean foiled my plans again. But once again, a barn swallow was the hero…
A Garden Guest
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…
Unforgiving
At a glance, he looked peaceful asleep, but a closer look told a different story…
Close Encounters
Our goal was to see one of the ocean’s oldest, most efficient predators: the great white shark…
Faint Hopes
It was low tide, a new moon, and the sky was clear. Conditions were ideal. All we needed was some color…
Winter Visitors
Over the Christmas break, I set an intention to photograph sandhill cranes in the Delta…
Top Nine, 2025
Reducing a year’s worth of work down to nine images is never easy, but the process always reveals patterns…
Perspective Blend
The problem that I have with this shot is in that you’ve completely blocked the most important subject here…
Half the Fun
Even when I think I’ve managed the considerations well, there’s still a lot of hoping for the best…
Return to The Farallones
Before boarding the Salty Lady, our naturalist reminded us to leave our expectations on the dock as every trip is different…
Star of the Sea
I’d been sleeping on the opportunity to glimpse the unfamiliar marine life that gather in basins of seawater along the shore…
Ebb and Flow, Part 3
Our trip to Skye was always going to be about landscapes, but I was surprised by how much wildlife we encountered…
Ebb and Flow, Part 2
I was struck by the fact that you could live in Skye your whole life and never run out of things to photograph…
Ebb and Flow, Part 1
It had been a long time since I’d really practiced landscape photography, and I felt rusty…
A Parting Gift
After a day of empty memory cards, I figured I might as well take the shot. Then I noticed something special…
The Farallones
As long as I’ve lived in the Bay Area, the Farallon Islands have been on the periphery of my vision, literally and figuratively…
Life After Death
Condors are the largest raptors in North America, but that doesn’t mean finding one would be easy…