Skagit Sunrise! 2026 When I think of my own idea of paradise – beauty, happiness, perfection, and… when the light is just right, a sense of often unending and earth-shattering mental and spiritual euphoria -- my mind first takes me on earlier photography trips up above five-thousand feet, to the wildflower meadows of Paradise on the southern flank of Mt. Rainier National Park. Or visits to Montana’s Paradise Valley nestled beside the Yellowstone River. Or, going back further, to the Paradise...

Winter Playground! Mt. Baker Wilderness, Washington State. I have never really written an annual “wrap-up” posting before. But my wife Stephanie and I were sitting around the fireplace, dodging the rain, enjoying the wonders of the holiday season, and reflecting on the past twelve months of adventures – and we thought that, if any, 2025 would be the year to do it! I didn’t want to write just about mileage, days on the road (well over half the year), or just a listing of places visited –...

Bear Reflection! Khutzeymateen Sanctuary, 2023. Who would have thought, just two months after I returned from my photo trip to the Great Bear Rainforest (GBR or Great Bear) that this amazing and wonderful place would come under threat yet again? Just a few weeks ago, in Terrace, British Columbia (BC), just twenty miles north of the growing industrial city of Kitimat where our boat was docked, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a new pipeline agreement with Alberta to ship bitumen...