Note: As I was finishing this post - still very much in the draft form you'll find below - my daughter came in to my office to alert me of an active shooter situation at Evergreen High School, where both kids and many friends attend. By good fortune, both our children were off campus when […]

I’ve been meaning to write for some time now. There’s a lot to share, ideas and thoughts and concepts and simple ponderings bouncing around in this head of mine. But, it’s a struggle to make sense of them all, to conjure sufficient mental clarity to give form to the amorphous, to make sense of it […]

Everest has become quite a circus these days. No judgment from me, but seeing the relative chaos makes me think back to quiet days, simple times in the quietude and ephemerality of the mountain, and what's always drawn me there in the first place.

I’ve never been very adept at shooting timelapses. Maybe I just don’t spend enough, well, time, on the preparation. I usually get caught up in the moment, training my camera on other vistas, other details, big and small, near and far, before finally reminding myself to set up the tripod and capture those dang clouds, […]