Removing “Audubon”
The Seattle-based conservation nonprofit focusing on birds has received a lot of attention, including in local and national news media, because it is removing βAudubonβ from our organizational name. This is not a helpful place for the spotlight to remain trained. If the focus of…
Nature Calls 2023
This year’s calendar features all birds and wildlife from the Pacific Northwest. The cover is my three-time, award-winning image, which was published in Bird Photographer of the Year, Collection 7, due out in December. It’s a little gruesome, so I didn’t think anyone would want…
Red Foxes of San Juan Island
Red foxes, and some human interactions, from San Juan Island, Washington, 2021-22. All but one photo, as noted, is by Glenn Nelson. The exception appears courtesy of Nate Luebbe. (Note: Click on an image to launch a full-sized viewer).
Chasing Liberty on the Nez Perce Trail
This is the third travelogue in a 3-part series. Read part 1, “Nez Perce Trail: BIPOCs & Battlefields & Bears.” Read part 2, “Gentrification of Wilderness” As billowy powder flocked the countryside, Sassia and I squeezed through the Bitterroot Mountains, winding astride Gibbons Pass, then…
Gentrification of Wilderness
This is the second travelogue in a 3-part series. Read part 1, “Nez Perce Trail: BIPOCs & Battlefields & Bears.” Read part 3, “Chasing Liberty on the Nez Perce Trail” Until recently, Iβd refused to even contemplate the phrase βloved to deathβ when applied to…
BIPOCS & Battlefields & Bears
This is the first travelogue in a 3-part series. Read part 2, “Gentrification of Wilderness.” Read part 3, “Chasing Liberty on the Nez Perce Trail” It finally dawned on us after we walked into the La Tinga restaurant in downtown Billings, Montana. There, we met…
What’s in a Name? Plenty
Imagine something meaningful to you and a person related to that thing whoβs done something despicable. Then imagine naming some aspect of your meaningful something after that despicable person. Like naming an investment club after Bernie Madoff, film festival after Harvey Weinstein, or block-watch after…
Nature Calls 2022
I admit it: In an effort to make myself (and you all) feel better during an ongoing pandemic, I really went for the cuteness factor in my nature photography this year. You’ll see it reflected in my 2022 Nature Calls calendar, which includes six wildlife…
Nez Perce ’21 Highlights
This photo gallery contains highlights from my tracing of the Nez Perce National Historic Trail with my daughter, Sassia, in late May and early June of 2021. The trail follows the heroic 1877 flight of non-treaty Nez Perce bands, which were pursued by the U.S….
Mt. Rainier Marmots
Arts, Race & Climate Change
This essay introduced Spectrum Dance Theater’s Race & Climate Change Festival No stranger to human-concocted environmental calamity, the South Park neighborhood in Seattle has been assaulted by pollution from land, air and sea. It sits astride a superfund site, and life expectancy there is 13…
Short-Eared Owls
Almost 10 years ago, Short-Eared Owls were the first birds I intentionally set out to photograph. It was a windy, rainy day, and I never saw one of the storied winter owls of the Pacific Northwest. So I kept searching. Eventually, I found them, but…
