Thursday, December 30, 2021

Best of 2021

Golden Sunset, Fir Island, Washington

I hesitate to call these my best images of the year. My preferences change over time. I also try to produce work that’s more emotional than documentary and it feels wrong for different emotions to have compete with each other. But these 15 images do a marvelous job of summing up my year.

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Behind the scenes: Night Lights, Ruby Beach

Foxfire, Ruby Beach, Olympic National Park, Washington

I’m always a little amazed at how bright it is at night — not just in cities, but even out in the wilderness. Even on a moonless night, even out in the middle of nowhere, it’s not completely black.

In the darkest skies, you can probably see about 2,000 stars. They produce enough starlight for me to be able to walk around. But recently on the Washington coast there was a second source of natural light and it came from the ground.