5 Minutes in Nature: Always something new

I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, but I do have something of a New Year tradition. One of my first pictures of the year is typically from the waterfront a half dozen miles from my home.

2023 in review

As another year draws to a close, it’s time for an annual tradition: a review of my work from the past 12 months.

Observing the December solstice

Today is the December solstice and how you view it is a matter of perspective.

Swimming with green sea turtles

I really needed just one picture of a green sea turtle for an upcoming project, but pictures are often better when I get the chance to know my subject on a deeper level. And I’m very thankful for the hours I got to spend with the turtles off Rarotonga in the Cook Islands.

An annular solar eclipse

October is a month for all things spooky, so in some ways it’s only fitting that earlier this month I got to witness an annular solar eclipse, a celestial event that for a fair amount of it the sun resembles a sickle.

Playing favorites

We all have favorite things. A favorite color. Perhaps a favorite flower. Or maybe a favorite bird.

The flip side of that is that we also have things we hate. Or at least strongly dislike. One of the things I have been working through is whether the things that have made it on my dislike list really deserve to be there.

An hour with a fogbow

This is a fogbow, informally known as a white rainbow. I got to spend about an hour working with it last week, which was phenomenal. When I’ve worked with fogbows before, I’ve had to work much faster.