Behind the Image

While most of us know that wolves do not impersonate grannies to trick children or huff and puff houses to the ground, we still carry an inherent fear fueled in part by childhood stories and legends.

For as long as I can remember, the best gifts in my life have always come from nature. After becoming a photographer, I used my camera to get closer to our wild kin. Wolves, penguins, lynx, sharks, and even the more elusive animals like spirit bears all became subjects of my lens.

Weaving like a giant snake through the coastal lowlands was the long body of the Black River, its inky waters carving through the dunes to join the Parnaíba River in the northeast. It was almost too beautiful to look at directly.

Pumas in Chile are considered a protected species, and hunting them is mostly prohibited. As a result, some of the pumas within the area have adjusted to going about their lives in the presence of people, ignoring them entirely.

With the full moon filling the starry sky overhead, we pulled on our masks and slipped down into the pitch-black depths.

To have the courage and strength of heart to remain generous even through hardship, to ensure everyone has a parking spot and shady place to sit — that is the aloha spirit.

When photographing ice, the creative possibilities are limitless.

It is beautiful, but this is a terrible beauty. For the story of the Colorado River since the 1950s has been a story of how an overburdened river no longer reaches the sea.

What is simple always interests me. Every year, during the annual salmon run, brown bears emerge from the mists in the glacial peaks that ring southwestern Alaska’s wild coastline and riverine valleys.

BC orcas are aerobatic; they breach all the time. Orcas of Norway are rarely, if ever, seen leaping out of the water.

Sensitive and shy, narwhals will retreat the moment they detect a stranger's presence in their home.

There are no guarantees in the world of assignment photography.

People are more likely to care about the ocean if they first fall in love with the charismatic megafauna that call it home.