Did you know that on June 23 (just over a month ago), the town of Verkhoyansk in northeast Siberia in the Arctic Circle reached a staggering temperature of 100.4º F (38ºCelcius)? This is the highest temperature in the Arctic ever recorded. A few days later in the same location, the temperature was recorded at 95.3ºF […]
Theo and I recently returned from our first domestic trip here in the US – which as we all know, is one of the most “unsafe” countries today regarding Covid-19. We had connecting flights to our destination on the east coast and we started the trip with much trepidation because we were going to […]
We are all drawn to nature photography for our very own personal reasons. Some are drawn for commercial reasons – to make money, others because they enjoy sitting in the peace and quiet of nature waiting for beautiful light, and others who perhaps enjoy the hunt of capturing animal behavior in front of their very […]
What actually is a walrus? A walrus is a pinniped. What is a pinniped? It is an aquatic carnivorous mammal (such as a seal, sea lion or walrus) with all four limbs modified into flippers. The walrus is an Arctic species and thus much harder to study in the wild than the elephant seals and sea […]
When we left Hokkaido, we flew south again to Honshu, Japan’s main island. We immediately were picked up by our chartered van and we drove almost four hours north to the Japanese Alps. We spent the next four nights in a traditional wooden Japanese Guest House dating back to the early-1800’s when the Samurai warriors […]
My last blog left off with the magnificent Steller’s sea eagles day. We had so much fun that we went back again for more Steller’s sea eagle action. They are so powerful and so fast, that you just shoot and shoot to get a better image than your last. It is a lot of fun […]
Like I posted on Facebook, I came on this trip with no little amount of trepidation. I had heard it was overly photographed, and stuffed full with photographers. I was in some small part dreading this because we typically go to places where we are alone. So here we go! So for me personally, Japan […]
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