Geography Games

This space has been a little slow while I was in Texas finishing up a photography contract for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. On the flight between Dallas and Seattle…

Deconstructing Chromaticity

We are going to geek out on color theory today. If you've spent anytime at all around digital color, you've certainly seen the above diagram. It's called a chromaticity diagram

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…

Anchorage Journal for the New York Times

Quick assignment for the New York Times

Slow news week

I'll be in the lower forty-eight for the next week…

Recipe: Water Drops

Today we're going to look at one of the tiny little marvels of fluid dynamics that happen in front of us everyday in those invisible fissures of time that elude our vision. What follows is one way to shoot water drop photos

Recipe: Smoke Photos

These are very easy to make, require minimal gear, and you can end up with some surprising and beautiful results.

Laughing-Stock

Knowing when and how to use stock photography is a talent in its own right. So is knowing when not to.

Anchorage G Street Outtakes

Travel photography tends to be about capturing the differences you find, either in the landscape or culture or food, between what you live with and what you find when go somewhere else. This makes a travel piece about your home town a challenge…

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