The Journal
Stories from the Field
Dispatches from the trail — landscapes, wildlife, alpacas, and the road in between.
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Just To Show Me Who’s Boss. Her Majesty, Mount Hood, Just Wanted To Show Me Who’s Boss
T’was a crisp winter’s day in the mountains high above the city is where this tale hath begin…For real though, it wasn’t just crisp, it was frickin’ freezing! I was…
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Bearing Witness to History and a Country Evolving – 360˚ Journeys Through the Heartland
It’s been a pretty wildly eye-opening last couple o’ months. Recently, my virtual reality company, Superswell VR, was blessed with the opportunity to work with Miles Partnership, a marketing company…
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The Meeting of Life – A Weekend at the SITKA Center for Arts & Ecology
As a self-employed freelancer you spend most of your life looking for jobs, bidding for jobs, creating decks and proposals and quotes and presentations for jobs and, if you’re lucky,…
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Nature + Kiddos = Happy You Happy Me Happy We. The Future of Science and the Environment is in Your Hands.
For all of you that know me, you know that there are few things more important to me than ensuring that not another generation goes by that doesn’t connect to…
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The Future of Forestry Coming into Focus – Breaking Down Barriers at the Society of American Foresters Annual Convention
I recently had the distinct pleasure of photographing the Society of American Foresters convention, this year held in Portland, Oregon, and I must say, it’s quite refreshing to see how…
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The Columbia River Gorge and Mount Rainier National Park: A Great Pacific Northwest Smoke Out
The last couple of weeks are exactly why I now find myself living in the Pacific Northwest.Sort of.So it’s no secret that this region of the country has some of…
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The Tale of two Teslas, a Trip and a Tire. Oh, and the Palouse. A Photography Trip to the Palouse was part of it…
We were only 55 miles in when it happened. This was a trip that has been in the works for a year.Ever since we won a raffle prize for 72 hours…
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Guanajuato – Millions of Gallons of Happy
I hate dogs.I’ve always hated dogs.And if you were living with the trauma of being been bit by numerous dogs as a child, you’d hate dogs too.So when a friend’s…
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Young Scientists Growing Up Early and Embracing Ecology
I walked into a 3rd grade classroom to hear them asking their teachers if they had to worry about being shot by guns. An hour later, I found myself joining…
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Gettin’ To the Heart of the Art at San Jose del Cabo’s Hotel El Ganzo
Back in September, I was EXTREMELY lucky to have the opportunity to spend a week at Hotel El Ganzo in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico. It sits on the other,…
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Bringing Nature to the Kiddos & the Kiddos to the Nature! I’ve Joined The Board Of ECO!
As you are all aware, a big part of the mission of my life, especially in the current climate in the United States, is to help bring science and nature…
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Greatest Hits (aka Personal Favorites) From My Inaugural Pacific Northwest Autumn
If you’ve been following along, you know how integral our natural world has been over the past near-decade to my development and evolution as a human being, both personally and…