FirstLight Workshop

04/24/2025

Becky & I just completed our 5th FirstLight Photo Expedition onboard the “Northern Song.” Started this time in Sitka and returned there (having started and returned to Petersburg on the previous trips.) As always, an incredible crew, Capt. Mariah Warren, 1st mate Bart Oosthuizen and chef-extraordinaire Katie Ludwig, made this an incredible trip. Perfect SE Alaska early spring weather throughout the trip, great wildlife sightings, and food beyond belief, it was a wonderful adventure!
We loved it so much, we’re planning on another “Northern Song” adventurer, August 28-September 4, 2026. Looking for 2 couples… or 2 sets of friends (2 in each cabin) to share the 2 remaining cabins. www.FirstLightWorkshop.com
Alaska Sea Adventures THINK TANK PHOTO BLACKRAPID National Geographic Expeditions

09/26/2024

We just completed two, back-to-back FirstLight Alaska Inside Passage Photo Expeditions, aboard the “Northern Song”: those two groups were 6 participants each, plus Becky and me. Each adventure presenting unique photographic offerings: from bubble-netting humpbacks, Grizzly bears feeding in a stream, breaching humpbacks, orcas on a hunt, visiting a small Alaskan village, motoring in small rafts near the face of active glaciers as well as motoring in those skiffs among humpback whales rolling through the water a few feet from us. Add to this mix, incredible dining, plus the enthusiastic and extremely knowledgeable assistance of Captain Harley and crew, Bart & Katy. Two truly memorable, visual, and wonderful experiences. Here are photos I shot during the first trip, that ran from August 28-September 4. Alaska Sea Adventures FirstLight Workshop THINK TANK PHOTO Acratech National Geographic Expeditions Morrison Hotel Gallery

08/23/2024

Our FirstLight CM Ranch 2024 is done, what a great group of photographers and what a stunning body of work created by these folks! I decided to go back to my photographic roots at the rodeo, only shooting black and white with a fast 28mm lens. FirstLight Workshop Acratech National Geographic Expeditions National Geographic Dubois Friday Night Rodeo

05/09/2024

I just returned from National Geographic’s “Wildlife of the World by Private jet” Expedition. 25 days, which started in Singapore, then to Borneo, on to Ranthambore in India, to Sri Lanka’s Yala National Park, the Maldives, then Madagascar, on to Phinda Wildlife Reserve in South Africa, then finishing with the mountain gorillas in Rwanda.
Photographing wildlife can draw on that old saw about flying a plane: hours of boredom interrupted by moments of terror. If only the darn critters would give us advance notice when they’re about to do something interpreting.
More photos coming in next few days.
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09/05/2023

We recently wrapped up our (at least) 12th FirstLight CM Ranch Workshop. The event was sold out some months ago, and the attending photographers produced some of the best work we’ve seen come out from one of these!! I’m posting several photos I shot, come to next year FirstLight CM Ranch Workshop, August 11-18, and you can experience this incredible, photo-driven event! We’ll be posting info in a few weeks, through word-of-mouth, the 2024 Workshop is nearly half sold out already.
Lexar Singh-Ray Filters Acratech Natgeotravel Natgeoexpeditions OM Digital and Olympus OMD Series Enthusiasts CM Ranch OM System

08/20/2023

08/04/2023

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