Last surviving building from the town of Wilcox. June 1996. On my very first visit to the Palouse back in 1996, I photographed this building. At the time I thought it was just another barn, but I learned many years later that it’s the last surviving building in the town of Wilcox. That first trip […]
2025 Favorites

Here are a few favorites from 2025 from Lofoten, Sitka, Olympic, and Yellowknife.
Save/transfer your Photoshop workspaces

You may or may not know that you can organize the pallets in Photoshop in just about any way you wish. And that you can save these as Workspaces. (In the Photoshop menu, go to Window > Workspace>) This can come in handy if you have plugins that create their own pallets (like the various […]
Lofoten Tours Report

Utlakleiv beach. Last month I made my first trip to the Lofoten Islands in Norway for a pair of sold out photo tours. What a gorgeous place: towering mountains, rugged seashores, windswept beaches, frozen lakes, quaint villages, and more. Lofoten is the farthest north I’ve ever been, being above the Arctic Circle. That was cool […]
Oh, that sneaky Mother Nature

Gray Whale spouting in front of Mt. Edgecumbe. I recently returned from Sitka where we attempted to photograph Humpback whales bubble-net feeding on herring. But the whales finished up in Sitka pretty much on the day we arrived. Minke whale We made the best of it and were still able to photograph whales. In fact, […]
2023 Favorites

Here are a few favorites from 2023. It was a busy year with at-home projects so I didn’t get out all that much. But I did get out. Humpbacks in Sitka from both March and August, along with some birds and bears. Olympic National Park, the Palouse, and Yellowknife. 2023
Maven Filters review

Well, I finally had the chance to put those new Maven filters (affiliate link) to use during my Olympic National Park workshop. The Mavens are much easier to use than traditional filters and I’ve now put adapter rings on all my main lenses. For background, see my previous “First Impressions” post. Some of my older […]



