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I recently went on a week-long birding trip to Florida, and unlike the majority of my life, everything went according to plan. I was able to see all the birds I hoped to, and more. During this time, I didn't really read any news or even check the weather in my home state of Minnesota. I largely stayed off of social media as well. I was too busy from dawn to dusk photographing birds, and in the evenings sorting through all the pictures I had taken that day. I had been in ki

When I took this photo of a Short-eared Owl, I was standing outside in a prairie area in Iowa. It was February, the temperature was 1...

I am supposed to be working on my taxes right now...but I thought I would write a blog post instead, because procrastinating a little...

This is the story about how I (unbelievably) became a published author. Many, many years ago when my kids were toddlers I was part of a...

Wedding photographers typically have a "shot list" of photos they need to capture throughout a wedding day. The list helps make sure...

Almost every summer we go to a resort for a week to fish, eat s'mores, relax, and most importantly take pictures of loons. (My family...

With this blog, I thought I might occasionally explain the making of a photograph...a sort of "behind the scenes" of a particular photo. ...

Today is July 30, 2021, and I am about to publish my website! It took many years of photographing nature before I felt confident enough...