Alaska’s Tongass

Selections from a photography project for the Tongass National Forest in Alaska

Risk, Bias, and Wilderness Photography

Photographers who work in wilderness areas inevitably increase their risk factors. Understanding our judgment under risk is a basic job requirement.

Yakutat, Alaska

The biggest small town in America—a selection of photos from a project about the Tongass National Forest.

Between the crust and the Kármán line

One of the more interesting, if sometimes unsettling aspects of living in Alaska is that this sliver of hospitable space is equally limited horizontally. Anchorage sits on a little piece of coastal lowland which is surrounded by wilderness…

Merrill Pass

If I ever meet Murphy, I'm gonna kick him in the ’nads. These photos are an attempt to snatch something, anything really, out of the clenches of Murphy's Law.

The aesthetics of print size

Huge prints are de rigueur for the landscape photographer and photographers often overlook the value of the small print.

Paean to Summer

With the passing of Labor Day we begin our long lament for summer's retreat. Summer in Alaska can be a vexing season of cool, wet weather punctuated with the precious, rare warm day. Being such a short season here, we make every attempt to savor the nice

Breaking radio silence

I've been broadcasting dead air here while I was in Texas shooting a large assignment for the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

New Wilderness Designations

Obama signs the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009

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