Kecak Dance

One of our first nights in Bali our guide, Wayan took us to a Kecak dance. This is a traditional Balinese telling of the Ramayana, one of the epic Hindu tales. Prince Rama is out hunting when his beautiful wife, Sita  is kidnapped by…

Secret Spaces

I love people. I really love people. But I also love untrammeled wild spaces and I think that the North Cascades are one of those places where the masses shouldn’t go. I think it’s fine for most of humanity to approximate the experience by…

Back to Bali

I have so much more story to tell about Bali. For now this will have to do. My quintessential pastoral photo of Bali: Notably:Gray skies threatening to either rain or turn blue.Rice fields full of workersOcean in the distanceGiant palm trees (You’ll have to…

Recent Views

I’ve been local lately. Here is some of what my homeĀ area offers for photography. Hope you’re out enjoying summer too.

Photographer’s Climb

“You see that saddle over there? That’s where we’re going.” Note the knob on the left (mostly un-named on trail maps) and the peak on the right (Mt Ruth, 7115 feet elevation) as well as the tiny tuft of trees you can see in the middle….