Photographers come from throughout the country to train their lenses on the seabirds among La Jolla’s cliffs and the scenic California coastline for good reason: seabird photographs are easily achieved here, to the extent that shooters like myself with modest bird photography skills can ha...
Not many people are familiar with the Svalbard archipelago, and this might be one of the reasons why it is such a splendid place for nature photographers. The archipelago lies at 78º N and only 900km away from the North Pole. Although being that far north in the Arctic region, due to the circul...
by Andy Biggs | October 1, 2006
I am often asked what digital gear I carry while away on a photo shoot, so here is a quick list of the essential workflow tools that I take on the road with me.
Often described as one of Africa’s last true wildernesses, Zambia had been high on my wish list of destinations for some years. After terrific self-drive travels through South Africa, Swaziland and Namibia, this year we finally exchanged the beaten tarred and gravel tracks of Southern Afri...
by Tom Walker | July 1, 2006
Brown bears (grizzlies) and black bears rarely use the same feeding areas. However, the largest pink salmon run in southeast Alaska, sometimes over 100,000 fish, lures both species to Anan Creek. Brown bears fish upstream in early morning and late evening hours; black bears snag salmon mid-day o...
The ancient face of the earth from 20,000 feet—that’s the view I was afforded from the air over Afghanistan during a four-month tour with the US Air Force. From mid January to mid May of 2006, I had the opportunity to occasionally fly over the varied landscapes of Afghanistan. There I wa...
The only place in the United States where the beautiful and endangered Snail Kite is found is in the southern half of the state of Florida. Snail Kites are abundant in parts of Central and South America but, in the U.S., these birds number less than two thousand and are considered the rarest bir...
Hot, dusty, and discouraged I said to Lorri, “I know one more road where I’ve seen horses before.” Pointing to the south I added, “It leads toward the higher elevation of Green Mountain. Let’s give it a try.”
by Donald Cohen | August 1, 2005
In early 2005 I was fortunate to be able to take a “trip of a lifetime” with my wife by spending some time on the South Island of New Zealand. We had always wanted to travel to that part of the world, with further research revealing that New Zealand would be just the right destinatio...
The scene in Naked Gun where Leslie Nielsen drops a pen into a tank of “deadly poisonous lionfish” makes me cringe! Hollywood’s portrayal of animals can often be described as creative, especially so for critters living beneath the water’s surface, my favorite place to p...
A good number of winter Texans and permanent residents of the Rio Grande Valley possess common threads, including their love for the area’s biodiversity and an awareness of the importance of habitat to our native flora and fauna.
What is it about a place that we as photographers feel compelled to go there, not just once or twice, but many times, perhaps year after year? Is it the location’s natural beauty; its unique geologic features, the abundant wildlife, the challenge of creating photographs that are able to co...
by E.J. Peiker | November 1, 2004
My employer allows its employees a sabbatical, 12 weeks of paid vacation, every seven years. It is designed to recharge the batteries after seven years of high stress in an extremely fast-paced technology industry. I am now in my twenty-second year with the company, which allowed me to take my t...
After an eight-hour flight from Atlanta to Santiago, I have a two-hour layover in the Santiago airport before a four-hour flight south to Punta Arenas, Chile. That trip is followed by an almost six-hour drive north over a relatively flat and barren plain before finally reaching Chile’s mos...
