My foot plunged through cool rushing water to find the firm purchase of a pebbled streambed. The shallow creek that emerged from beneath an arch of lush jungle foliage was both beckoning and mysterious, and upstream we went with the sound of Pacific Ocean waves pounding the wild beach behind us. “You watch the left […]

We’ve all been there – going out with the camera looking for photographs without much idea of how to seize the opportunity to do something new. The desire to photograph is there, but creativity seems to be on vacation. The fact is that creative inspiration can be hard to find and even harder to sustain. […]

The very American artistic tradition of celebrating the concept of wilderness, associated so closely with photographers like Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter, reached an early zenith in the mid 19th century with the Hudson River School painters. Their work attempted to capture exceptional qualities of light, topography, and weather to render idealized visions – not […]