I’m in Pittsburgh this weekend on our 2025 NxNW photography expedition. This is my first real visit to the city (a day trip for a meeting near the airport...
In the annals of roadside art, this must be one of the weirdest entries. About half way between Brownsville and Starbase, on the side of highway 4. you can find...
Last Saturday, I was lucky enough to be given a tour of the SpaceX star factory at Starbase, Texas (formerly Boca Chica village). The production lines...
A Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) perched on a post in the bay behind the South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center, Texas, on July 11th,...
A Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens) seen at the South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center, Texas on July 11th, 2025.
We’re spending a few days down on the Gulf coast so I got up early (too early, as it happens – sunrise is currently more than an hour earlier...
Continuing the theme of boats, we move to the bottom end of the size scale today with this image of an expedition zodiac cruising in front of the face...
Our December expedition to Antarctica left Ushuaia in the afternoon and sailed east along the Beagle Channel, closely followed by Quark Expedition’s...
Here’s a wider view of the St. Christopher grounded by the shoreline outside the port of Ushuaia, Argentina. The popular tourist attraction started...
I’m heading back to last December’s Antarctic expedition this week but, for variety, am moving from wildlife to boats for a few days. This...
A group of Macaroni Penguins (Eudyptes chrysolophus) seen processing along the shoreline at Cooper Bay, South Georgia on December 25th, 2024. Macaronis...
Playful juvenile Fur Seals (Arctocephalus gazella) seen at Godthul, South Georgia on December 24th, 2024.
A group of King Penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) seen on the beach at Gold Harbour, South Georgia on December 25th, 2025.
An apparently-contented juvenile Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) lying on the beach at Peggotty Camp, King Haakon Bay, South Georgia on December...
A group of Chinstrap Penguins (Pygoscelis antarcticus) on an ice floe floating offshore from Elephant Island, Antarctica on December 29th, 2024.
I’m working on my upcoming presentation for Hill Country Photography Club so am in the mood to post a few more of the shots I took during last December’s...
Sticking with recent results of my ongoing infra-red experimentation, here’s an image taken back in 2021 during a trip to Big Bend National Park...
After failing to take any infra-red images during the Antarctica trip (I had great plans for images of textured icebergs under dark skies but the weather...
I think this will be my final Grytviken image for this week. This shot was taken just in front of the cemetery containing Shackleton’s grave, looking...
Rusty tanks and machinery in the now-abandoned whaling station in Grytviken, South Georgia as seen on December 23rd, 2024.
