2025: Marie’s Highlights, Photographic and Otherwise
Every year has its highs and lows and 2025 was no exception. This was our first full year of semi-retirement, enabling us » Read more
Papua New Guinea, September 2025 (Part 1, Brisbane & Birds)
Writing about this trip is harder than usual, because it will always be (for us) inextricably bound up with a complex mix » Read more
Amun Ini, Anda, Bohol, Philippines (May 2025)
After a pre-trip blackwater blow-out with Steve and Greg at Anilao, and successful thresher shark sessions in Malapascua with Lynn’s co-op group, » Read more
Malapascua, Philippines (May 2025)
Thursday and Friday, May 1 and 2, 2025 Planes, trains and automobiles, or rather the Philippine dive travel version: shuttle buses, a » Read more
What We Do in the Shadows (Blackwater, Anilao, April 2025)
Thursday, April 24-Saturday, April 26, 2025 It’s always hard work packing for an underwater photography trip, but this trip had the added » Read more
Texas (Part 1): Eclipse April 2024 (eclipsed by clouds!)
After experiencing and photographing total solar eclipses in Jackson, Wyoming in 2017 and in Chile’s Elqui Valley in 2019, our plans for » Read more
Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan (February 2025)
After four fabulous days photographing red-crowned cranes and whooper swans, we were heading further north to the Shiretoko Peninsula, where we would » Read more
Heavenly Hokkaido, Japan (February 2025)
After three wonderful days with cavorting snow monkeys, in and out of steaming hot springs, with and without snow, we were off » Read more
Tokyo and more Monkey Business, Japan (January, 2025)
In 2018, Steve, Greg and I were 50% of the guests on a small group winter wildlife photography trip in Japan, under » Read more
2024 Highlights (with Marie’s photographic bests)
2024 was a whale of a year! By any measure, it was a momentous year, in which we semi-retired after 33 years » Read more