Yeah, it snowed today (31 Jan 25), and that got me thinking of Alaska! Funny how that works. Yet, no, snow (or ice!) is not what I first think about, when I think of ALASKA! No, that would be, well, first, yeah! Ahh, MOTORCYCLE, but then, and only then, yeah ... The GRIZZLY BEARS of Katmai National Park, and that trip up there to photograph them! Really. Yeah. See, first, I made it to Alaska while on a plane ride to Japan, back in the day, and yeah, we stopped for a rather qu

No, not "down there" in Antarctica, where I captured THIS image (it's actually SUMMER down there now! Cold maybe, but not that EXTREME, I hope!), but right here in North Carolina, you know, where I live! Yeah, like, TODAY, right now! SEVERE WEATHER WARNING! Yeah, today, as I'm writing this ... Like, RIGHT NOW! It's 27 degrees, with a HIGH of 35 degrees, this afternoon, but the REAL cold sets in later on today, and tomorrow! Yeah, the HIGH tomorrow will only be, ahh, 26 degree

I kid you not. I was on a trip, I don't remember when, or where, but yeah, I do remember STOPPING, and making the GREAT decision to, you know, take a couple of pictures, of what was like, RIGHT OUT THERE in front of me at the time! Or to one side of me, I can't remember THAT either! Doesn't matter. In fact, I'm not even going to look (I thought of it!) at the, you know, DATA! I'm going to say right here and now, that yeah, I KNOW I set my little, "compensation button" to some

Well, way before I ever heard of that term anyways! Yeah, while on my AROUND THE WORLD TOUR, back in 2005, I ended up sleeping in this fantastic, YURT thingy, out in the middle of nowhere, in Mongolia, you know, somewhere way out there! It was unreal! Like, hello? It's MONGOLIA, in a freakin' YURT, are you kiddin' me? I loved it! Yeah, it was all part of that TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD trip thing, that I took to connect my two VIKING RIVER CRUISE trips I photographed that summer

St. Petersburg, Russia. Yeah, really ... Moscow Subway Painting Saint Basil's Cathedral, Moscow. Simply amazing! Chinese school students, yeah! We visited a school one day, you know, somewhere! Loved it! Chinese actors after their wonderful performance ... Peter the Great's "greatest" achievement! Ahh, his magical, estate outside St. Petersburg! Russia. Hey! I just "Push the Button"! I have no clue ... But, THAT was Russia! Maybe some other, local, train actually stops here!

I took pictures of about, ohh, like, ahh, ONE football game, at GFMS over my twenty-something years teaching Special Ed. kids there, you know, at GFMS (see above)! True, I did go to a few more (after my own practices), but yeah, didn't make a habit of, you know, taking pictures ... Even though I did teach photography (ART 261) at the local Community College! I was usually coaching something at that time, or running with some of the kids (or, you know, teaching at the college!

My work, shooting for a few different Army Public Affairs Offices over the years ... Then ... Later on, in Grad School, in Chicago ... Yeah, my thesis on two generations of military, combat photographers! A MARINE: David Douglas Duncan. A WWII Marine combat photographer, and later, a LIFE Magazine photographer for years. And then Dick Durrance, an ARMY combat photographer, during the Vietnam War, who later went on to shoot for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC for many years, before endin

Enjoy. Have I ever mentioned that I LOVE GETTING OUT THERE? Anywhere! With some sort of camera ... Just saying. Good luck with that! See you OUT THERE! Somewhere, sometime, somehow ... I hope.

Enjoy.

Yeah, a wild looking little, "pet thing" down there in San Juan, Puerto Rico ... I remember seeing them the first time I was down there, years ago! Yeah, they hang out around the old forts where they mow the lawns, I guess, and that keeps them "busy hunting", or whatever, all day ... Or maybe not, remember, I am now a RETIRED expert on everything that gets in front of my lens! And you thought I was bad when I was actually, you know, "working", and, taking pictures all over th

Enjoy.

Thanks for checking them out. Have a GREAT DAY!

Say it with me ... "India"! Me "playing", after I got home from Russia, like, years ago! Inside a barn, over in Ireland Behind The Visitor's Center, out there on The Outer Banks, NC South Mountain State Park, NC Inside a Yarn Factory Museum (or whatever!), up in Quebec, Canada Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska At a cemetery, over in Ankor Wat, Cambodia Holding a sunflower, out in some Texas field, you know, someplace! Ab

That's right, as I mentioned a few days ago, during one of my school, and college "Christmas Break" things one year, I took a little trip down to "The End of the Earth" to visit one of the greatest places there is on this Earth, period. ANTARCTICA. These images are from that first trip down there back in 2011 ... While I was still teaching. My second trip down there, came later, in 2017, AFTER I retired, but after having watched all those Art Wolfe Photography DVDs the last c

Well, that is what we called it anyways! Yeah, Ian, the oldest son of our School Media Center Coordinator , or you know, our School Librarian, Keith Dudley, who just so happened to live on the same street that had a "Gate Entrance", just down the road from their house, and yeah! He was how I learned about the TRAIL that they have back by the "Tater Hole", or you know, Lake Hickory! It's a GREAT trail, you know, for any local Middle School track, and cross-country "Running Clu

Yeah, THAT storm! At THAT gym, at that school dance, down there in THAT Gym! Yeah, at GFMS! You know, Granite Falls Middle School, back in the day! And yes, I'm going with 25 Apr 09, because yeah, that's what the DATA tells me, and no, I've got nothing better, so yeah, that works for me! Sounds possible! And believable, I was teaching back then, but yeah, I just knew it was a LONG time ago! And yes, we had a LOT of dances in the gym over the years! And maybe even a storm once

And yeah, it's one of, if not THE best place, to find yourself swimming among the Stingrays! You know, if you happen to have a waterproof...

Somehow, I don't know how, but yeah, I came across this OLD image of mine from my old website ... Which I thought was removed a LONG time...

Patagonia's largest, and most famous glacier, is Perito Moreno Glacier. And yes, you can get very close to it, no problem ... Even take a...

LOOK AT THE LIGHT. Get up early and stay out late! That simple (I wish!). Is it HARD light (dark shadows) or SOFT light (no shadows)? Is...