About a month ago as I was hiking my way around the valleys of Tatras National Park in northern Slovakia I was struck by the utter absence of bird song and bird life. I noted it here: “Lacking however are birds.…
I stepped out just before sunrise. A warm air was flowing up the valley. I took a quick bath in the cold stream and then sat by the fire, drinking coffee and waiting for the sunlight to touch Nizna Bystra,…
Vlado Vancura, volunteer wilderness ranger and member of the European Wilderness Society (EWS) pointed to lichen hanging from a spruce as evidence that things were indeed getting better. “You would have never seen that in communist days,” he said. Air…
My European wilderness fascination dates back to the early 1990's when, for various reasons that lack any sense of logic, I ended up walking my way through various sections of southern Europe on my way to Hong Kong. I never…
It is a humid mid-morning and the pond is glassy. Dragonflies pass over the muddy flats marking the edge of the water. A Red Admiral butterfly rests on a golden point of grass. A fat and roly-poly yellow bee lumbers…
See more from the #EcoCostaRica Project From my travel journal: December 2, 2013 Last night at the Savegre Lodge was downright cold. I was there specifically to see the birds of Costa Rica. I lit a fire and hung my…
This picture is of Colorado's Front Range looking north from Roxborough State Park in a light rain just a few days ago. I was driving north again to the Keystone and Lake Dillon areas for a few days of hiking.…
Last night, Taos and surrounding areas were hit with a pretty intense storm between about 830pm and 1030pm. It was a fabulous night for Taos lightning shots but I have to admit I was bothered just a bit that my…
(Please help support my upcoming work in Finland) "It looks like a painting." That was Ilan. This wasn't his first visit to the Great Sand Dunes in Colorado but I think the view finally sunk in and not just the…
My first crowdfunding campaign is under way! This is my very first attempt at crowdfunding one of the numerous projects I have in mind. It probably will not be the last. Please help me set this project in motion. Click…
I finally made it back out to join my friends on some stream restoration projects in the Valles Caldera National Preserve near Los Alamos, New Mexico. The partners on this project are the Albuquerque Wildlife Federation and Los Amigos de…
A young, male bighorn sheep. Somehow "tomorrow" turned into three days later this week. I really feel like I should say something here but I said it all the other day here where I described how these shots came about.…
