Just as soon as one Caddo Lake and East Texas Autumn nature photography workshop ends, the next one begins.  Mid-November is the ideal time to see fall colors at Caddo Lake. Upon the arrival of a new group, it’s not long before we are back at the lake, embracing an unusual autumn in an out-of-the-way place in East Texas.

As the water calms around us, the sky to the east starts to lighten.  First, pink tinges the wispy clouds floating through the eastern sky.  Soon, the sky gradiates from deep blue to orange.  On the Caddo Lake and East Texas Autumn nature photography workshop, scenes like this are common - and welcome.

In the distance, a cow lowing breaks the silence of the moment.  Soon, the clank of hoofs against wood slides into the ether as a horse repositions himself in the trailer.  The horse knows that his services are needed and is ready to go to work. In cowboy country, horses are unofficially graded on whether or not they have cow sense.  Cow sense is a characteristic that horses have. It portends how good they’ll work around cattle and how enthusiastic they are about their job. 

It's quiet here along the Middle Fork of the Little River.  The water babbles over the moss-covered rocks, creating a relaxing sound that reverberates a bit off the mountains.  No one speaks as each guest is into their own camera, trying to catch the fleeting beauty of Autumn in the Smokies.  

To the west, the clouds gathering are turning a deeper shade of slate.  A slight breeze blows and cools off the morning nicely.  Lately, Texas is unseasonably warm and a bit drouthy.  Therefore, the prospects of rain (although it threatens to place our morning shoot on hiatus) is wholly welcome.      Aside from a brief moment of golden sunlight this morning, it’s been overcast.  

Pulling alongside the road in the dark, I can hear the waves crashing on the isolated cove below.  This is one of those moments where imagination comes full circle.  As a kid, I’d learned about Acadia National Park, and it’s a place that I’ve dreamt of visiting.  

It's been a while, but planning the Wild Horses of Sable Island nature photography workshop started on a famous ranch near Pawhuska, Oklahoma, in August of 2023.  On a road trip with my wife, we stopped in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, to eat breakfast at a restaurant owned by television personality Ree Drummond.  After breakfast, we head out to the vast Drummond Ranch, where her show The Pioneer Woman is filmed.  On our visit to the Drummond Ranch lodge, I was roaming through the kitc

I was a little concerned about the hummers because this was the first Hackberry Farm Nature Photography Workshops day camp I’d done in a year. While the camps are fun and productive, my travel schedule prohibits me from adding more. These legendary hummingbirds are too special to ignore, so I make time in my schedule to have people out.

Admittedly, waving at elephants is a bit nonsensical.  I do it anyway. Inside their immense frames, covered in thick and wrinkled skin, is a sentient being that is thoughtful, caring, and empathetic.  Sure, perhaps not in the way you and I are, but I challenge anyone to spend a little time with wild elephants and really study their behaviors and see how they treat one another and see if you disagree.  Inside the behemoths beats a heart with emotions. 

To say that Botswana is beautiful is an understatement.  The country is wild yet elegant; sublime and exalted; rugged and, well, beautiful.  For years, I've been traveling here with guests and helping them discover the magic of all that Botswana offers.  It's a mesmerizing elixir made up of our guests, the people of Botswana, the impressive wildlife sightings, the austere landscapes, and the well-appointed lodges we visit.  

Within minutes of pushing off from the dock in Petersburg, Alaska, it felt like we were already in the wilderness.  On a well-appointed luxury yacht (The Northern Song), six guests, a crew of three, and I launch into the beautiful waters of Southeast Alaska.  Along the way out to Frederick Sound, a group of sea lions lay on top of a channel marking bouy as if to wish us safe passage as we pass.

While spring is usually the wettest season at Redlands Ranch, the rain usually comes from itinerant thunderstorms that appear in the afternoon and are gone in the evening.  Once they are past, the ground dries until the next round of rain falls.  This rain is unusually persistent.  For the past two or three weeks, it’s been a slow and persistent rain.  One that makes everything green and makes everything soggy.

It’s misty outside, but here we are in a place I’d never imagined I’d be: a Dutch brown bar in Delft’s city center.  Inside here, our guests laugh with one another while we sip cappuccino and tell stories.  We’ve been on the move all week during our nature photography workshop, so this pause is a welcome respite.

I'm a fan of trees.  I've written before that they are the only organisms firmly rooted in the soil and grow into the heavens, yet they occupy the same space as we do.  When you take the time to study trees, you'll notice that each individual is much different than even trees of the same species, and the variety of trees that exist on our planet is even more diverse and, frankly, mind-boggling.  From the time a seed spouts, each drop of rain and each puff of wind influences h

It's quiet here in this mountain valley.  Elk are strewn along a wooded creek at the foot of the valley.  They are content, the people in this workshop are content, and all seems right.  

This is the second time I've come out to Northwest Texas for the Night Skies of the Texas Outback nature photography workshop, and it's for

When I walk into the lobby, I'm a bit surprised that I'm not the first one here.  In fact, except for one person, I am the next to the last

In our new publication, you see a celebration of all we did in 2024 in our Hackberry Farm Nature Photography Workshops.

From the floor of Badwater Basin, I look to the east and see the colors over the mountains changing from a grey-blue to a familiar orange.

Soon, we're hopping off the boat and wading through the warm ocean waters up to the shore of the Corcovado National Park in one of the many