In photography, we typically celebrate the dramatic. Landscapes with explosive colors. Powerful wildlife in the midst of intense action. B...

One of the things I love most about nature photography is that every moment is a fleeting moment. The scenery is in a state of constant ch...

Even when we are on the scenic route, I suspect that most of the time we still remain fixated on our destination. The view outside the...

Being rejected is a terrible, terrible feeling. But in art, let alone life, I’m not aware of any way to avoid it. We’re conditioned to o...

Perhaps more than any other form of art, photography is treated as a technical pursuit. That’s not to say that other forms of art can’t ...

Wildlife photographers sometimes look for conflict to add drama to their images, but more and more it seems like they’re getting ca...

Would you like this picture more if you knew I was in pain when I made it? That my fingers ached after I removed one of my gloves in the...

Look at a sky watcher’s chart and you will see sunset listed as a precise moment of time. I, however, prefer to think of it as an even...

It has been said that every picture has already been taken. More than a billion pictures are taken each day. And some are largely recre...

What turns a bird picture into a work of art? A magazine recently asked me and other photographers who had been honored by Audubon...

Whenever I give a nature talk, one question usually comes up. And it’s almost always phrased as a statement. “You must spend a lot of ti...

This photograph looks like dusk at a saltwater marsh, but that’s not what it’s really about. It is my first image of 2021 and it has a lo...

I’ve spent much of this year trying to find new appreciation for the ordinary. It’s been the only way to stay safely productive. And while ...

The challenges of 2020 have certainly affected my approach to nature photography, but the impact hasn’t been entirely bad. Because of the...

While it can be incredibly exciting to photograph in a new place or to spend time with an animal you’ve never photographed before, I al...

To call these unusual times minimizes how unusual they really are. Over the past seven weeks, the majority of my photography has been con...

One of the biggest challenges a visual artist faces is capturing people’s attention — and then keeping it. Compelling art captivates people...

I’ll be honest with you. I’m sharing this image because I know it will do well on Instagram. Even though I consider myself a nature phot...

Photographers are conditioned to always need something new. Often it’s equipment. We’re bombarded with ads for new cameras and lenses tha...

As I wrote last month, wind can seem like an impossible concept to capture in a still image. But just a few days after posting about my exp...