Perhaps it’s my panglossian nature, but in a last minute effort to make lemonade out of lemons, instead of the standard photographic tradition of a top 10 list, I’m going to identify 9 images from which I have learned the most or which will change and improve my photography going into 2021. And 9 has better mythical and mathematical credentials. Hopefully this will be more inspirational and informative

These trips were about Albus, not photography. Or were they? They were certainly about Albus, and decidedly not about me—I was purposeful in this. But a strange thing happened on the way to “not about photography.” My photography got better.

A man must face such challenges with the right stuff is his head, and in his pack, but not too damned much of it, or he is too insulated from the experience.

…here is what my dumb ass should have done 10 years ago so I could have gotten off the derivative train before it crashed into middle-age.

I spent the bulk of my 2019 hikes shooting handheld, and it was both a constraint and a freedom—both are sources of learning, creativity, and inspiration.

I recalled Jack London’s story To Build A Fire. What if I could take a photograph that was as cold as that story?

…it was a gut reaction to a powerful scene, and because I got the shot that captured all the complex and contradictory things I was feeling about my visit there, it stuck with me.

…once you have become proficient at your medium, how do you evolve as an artist? Put another way, how can I learn to see differently and better?