Nature Photography - I spotted another photo for this assignment when I was inside the house yesterday, watching the rain fall. The sidewalk out in front had a large puddle, reflecting the overhead trees, and the raindrops danced across the surface, creating rings that expanded and disappeared and showed up again with the next raindrop, like a carefully choreographed dance...

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Moose Facts - And the next time someone tells me moose aren’t to smart in the book I was reading I’m gonna tell them a thing or two. As a for instance, did you know moose don’t use snow shoes. They don’t have to. They are big critters with long, long legs. They can handle any snow depth Mother Nature throws at them...

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I was recently introduced to the artistry of Kenneth Dahl. If you have a love of darkhouse spear fishing you have to view the print named You Snooze You Lose on the detail of this article...

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It was during the Year of the Gimp that I received the Great Autumn Revelation...

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As a former newspaper reporter/photographer, I’m used to going where I want to for a story. I’ve come to expect that if I look official enough, or if my motives are sincere enough, my camera and notebook will be the open-sesame to just about any situation or scene that appeals to me—whether I’m on the job or out on my own...

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Most people make the mistake of thinking that blue bird days, the kind with sunny skies and bright sun, are the best times for shooting. That kind of weather may lift the spirits, but it doesn’t always produce photos to brag about later on...

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My camera and I have been angling for a date with the big fella for a long time. He’s always got an excuse.

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There was my dog Shiloh, tethered just outside the back door, barking and jumping toward me with eager excitement. And there I stood in the yard, one arm brought up close to my face, the hand at the end of my other arm holding a camera that was focused within inches of my sleeve...

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Anybody reading this is probably a photographer. And photographers—intrepid northwoods photographers—never complain about the snow. They don’t even spell it as a four-letter word. They spell it o-p-p-o-r-t-u-n-i-t-y...

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I can be seduced. I often am. It happened again just last month. I was on my way back to the paper from an interview in Silver Bay, and there in front of me was a big, beautiful, bold...

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I’ve never checked, but I’m sure by now someone has put out one of those “…for Dummies” books about photography...

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Last Monday was the opener for me. May 5. Quite a few days ahead of the rest of the madding crowd. Just like the guys with the rods and reels, I have my secret spots, my favorite places, and I don’t like to share...

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Mother Nature came calling today, but judging from her behavior, she wasn’t in a very feminine mood...

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Splayed against those rocks like castaways clinging to solid land, they were nevertheless sucked back into the lake depths, the action creating a void below, exposing lake bottom that glistened with foam. But only for a moment before the next assault was launched...

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That morning, I awoke to the magical, wondrous, spirit-lifting sight of a world decorated in white flocking. I stood at the upstairs window and stared at what just the night before had been a dreary, winter-weary world, gray in the corners, dirty along the edges. Now, it lay in a silent white stillness, fragile in its beauty...

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