Glenn Nelson
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 βworked up,β 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 β with nice paper so the images pop and I can actually write on them. This year,…
Birding While Black with Drew Lanham
Drew Lanham is a different bird. And heβs known that to be the case since, back in the day in Edgefield, South Carolina, he leapt off buildings and trees with cardboard wings, umbrellas and parachutes made of garbage bags. One time he broke his collarbone…
‘Nature Keeps Me Grounded’
Itβs hard to say how or why Chevon Powell was granted a rebirth so close to the beginning of her life. She was only 5 months old when her familyβs Houston apartment burned down. She was rescued after suffering first- and second-degree burns on about…
Connected by Nature
OVER THE COURSE of 3Β½ months, I made more than 30 visits to a nest site thatβs surprisingly urban, in the middle of Seattle, in the shadow of the University of Washington campus, where aspirations sometimes rise and fall as suddenly and unexpectedly as the…