Joys, Risks of Black Birding
During the wee hours of a recent Sunday morning, a Black man and his mixed-race, Black and Latinx friend meet in front of Be’er Sheva Park in Seattle’s Rainier Beach neighborhood, among the most diverse in the city. They are wearing caps and face masks...
Nelson Wins Rare Triple
Glenn Nelson, the founder of The Trail Posse, earned what is believed to be an unprecedented three first-place awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for the same column, on race and social justice, for Crosscut.com. The three 2019 honors came for Column, Editorial and...
Yellowstone Winter
Sunshine in Bozeman. Pink orange mornings. Stars and howls at night. Lamar Buffalo Ranch: The American Serengeti across the street. Heated floors in the bath house! Collegiality in the bunk house. Meg in charge. Jessica at the wheel. All is good. Frosty bison and yipping...
A Trail of Ghosts
Note: This piece was part of winning entries in Best of the West (2nd Place) and SPJ Northwest Excellence in Journalist (1st Place). Doan Nguyen was sufficiently “worked up,” as she put it, by the time we reached Nihonmachi (Japantown) Alley, a history-filled thoroughfare in...
National Parks Wildlife
Throughout the years, my biggest thrills in national parks came when I spotted and photographed wildlife, from the tiny Pika to the big Grizzly. The gallery below represents some of my best. Admittedly, our feathered species get short-shrifted here, but are abundantly represented throughout the...
2020 Nature Calls
Making calendars is not a business for me. I started a few years ago because some friends asked me to. I make them the way I like them – with nice paper so the images pop and I can actually write on them. This year,...