Welcome to this site about a special part of Alaska. I'm hoping that you'll have an enjoyable experience as you navigate through it. As time goes on, I'll add information describing many of the pictures.
I have a degree in Surveying Technology from Penn State and Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and Management from the University of Wyoming. I worked on the Bridger-Teton National Forest in Northwestern Wyoming and the Nez Perce National Forest in Central Idaho prior to moving to Bethel, AK in 1998. As a fish biologist at the Jackson National Fish Hatchery in Jackson Hole, WY, I regularly scraped fish feces from the raceways in the shadow of the Tetons and Sleeping Indian Mountain of the Gros Ventre Range while the elk frolicked in my front yard - the National Elk Refuge. I spent four years in Bethel as the first fish biologist that the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge ever had; that refuge is approximately the size of S. Carolina. Following that I was the first fish biologist that the Kuskokwim Native Association in Aniak ever had. And I guess I’m the first professional photographer to live in Aniak.
More recently I served as the Invasive Plant Coordinator for the Mid Yukon-Kuskokwim Region. Sadly, invasive plants are rapidly spreading even to remote sections of this pristine country.
Because of an abundance of ecological stressors like that, I'm working on a book about my concern for the environment. For more on that please go to My Book section.
I enjoy fishing, boating, camping and photography or basically being outdoors as much as I can. The subtle beauty that abounds here in Southwestern Alaska simply enthralls me.
As a photographer, one of the harshest lessons I’ve learned is that you can’t get em all! That’s in regards to striking sunrises, sunsets and moonrises. Another lesson is that photography is like those never got-to things in life; the photos you remember most are the ones you wished you’d taken but never did.
Hopefully some of my pictures will give you the inspiration to go out and not miss that one you wished you’d taken.
My photos have appeared in publications by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the Alaska Department of Fish & Game, the American Fisheries Society, The Anchorage Daily News, Younglife Relationships and the Nestle Purina Pet Care Company.
Due to the logistical difficulties of getting materials in and out of “bush” Alaska in a timely fashion (2-day delivery can sometimes take almost two weeks!*), and that shipping costs can be insanely expensive (one company in the lower-48 wanted $99 to ship two snow mobile covers!), I’m not able to take orders over the Internet.
However, if there is something that you just have to have please contact me and we’ll see what we can work out. Hopefully I will be able to take orders over the Internet in several months.
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