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Morromico Bay, Chocó, Colombia | July, 2018

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Earning Respect

“Don’t get happy!” came the thundering voice from the sidelines. It was a classic saying of the late Norm Walker, my football coach, English teacher, poet, wisdom-giver, and wonderful man in high school at Holderness School. It sounded strange at first blush, but made sense the longer one played for Coach Walker: he hated cockiness, […]

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Dreaming of Wind

Take meTo the magic of the moment on a glory night I wasn’t expecting to hear the Scorpions in the rural outskirts of Danilovgrad. And especially not belted out by a group of passionate, wine-buzzed, new Montenegrin friends roughly in tune with an accordion player. But, strange things happen when you open up on the […]

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A Moment in the Snow

The flakes stung my cheeks, wind whipped, swirling through pines swaying in the gale. It was only 25 degrees or so, not cold for this valley this time of year, but cold enough to feel icy tendrils snaking up my extremities. I wanted to go, to move, to get warm. But not yet. I came […]

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Wild & Remote & Exclusive

This post was written a couple weeks back, but I mistakenly saved it as a draft rather than publishing it. So, here it is, belatedly! Yesterday, I pored over photos from a decade ago, high in the remote, wild Picket Range of Washington State, stitching together a 350-degree panorama of these magnificent mountains from Luna […]

ESSAYS & INSPIRATION MOUNTAINS & ADVENTURE

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Do Hard Things

September 28, 2023, summit of Beinn a Chrulaiste, Glencoe, Scotland. A client and good friend of mine - we’ll call him John - has a motto: Do hard things. For most people, it would be just that - a motto, a slogan more political than practical, more aspirational than actionable. But not for John. In […]

ESSAYS & INSPIRATION MOUNTAINS OF MEMORIES PHOTOGRAPHY

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Deep in the Pickets

September 6, 2014, on Luna Col, Northern Pickets Range, North Cascades, Washington. Scroll to the bottom to see the view in a full VR panorama. The evening was about as peaceful as could be imagined, which was a welcome break from the preceding days. Four of us - Dave Morton, Sid Pattison, Jeremiah Watt, and […]

ESSAYS & INSPIRATION MOUNTAINS OF MEMORIES PHOTOGRAPHY

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Troublesome

October 21, 2020, Juniper Pass, Colorado The clouds didn't make sense. They were rising in the north, high above skyline, towering into the upper atmosphere as I drove my kids to school along Evergreen Parkway. We got to the S-curves and it finally made sense. Those weren't clouds in the colloquial sense, they were towering […]

MOUNTAINS OF MEMORIES PHOTOGRAPHY

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