Category Archives: Adventures

Adventures and adventure photography. Could be travels and trips to remote places like Alaska or Patagonia, or it could be outside sports, such as whitewater kayaking, mountain biking, backpacking and hiking, dog mushing, trail running etc.

Bremner River, Wrangell St. Elias National Park

3 Replies
Sunset over the Bremner River, Wrangell St. Elias National Park, Alaska.

Hey Folks

OK – we’ve officially left Denali behind. For a while. I’m going to post some images from Wrangell St. Elias National Park, because it’s been a while .. must be a few weeks at least.

This photo was taken on a backpacking trip I did this August, near Tebay Lakes.

We flew in to the backcountry, after waiting around McCarthy all day for the weather to clear – we’d flown in earlier in the day, only to be turned back by a dense fog, less than a mile from our landing strip — arrgghhh – so close! Then we hiked for 10 days, and had an absolute blast. The weather couldn’t have been better – you know it’s good weather in Alaska when I’m swimming in lakes and showering in waterfalls. The blueberries were out of this world.

Continue reading →

Oh Come, all ye faithfull

Leave a reply
Bull Bison sparring, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.

Hey Folks

Finally, I saw Old Faithful. I didn’t actually take a photo of it, of course. The weather was pretty un-photography friendly when me and my parents sauntered over to the geyser to await the eruption, and I didn’t think I’d bother bringing my camera, lenses and tripod with me .. the 50 yard haul surely couldn’t be worth it.

Continue reading →

Spruce forest in Snow, Lewis and Clark National Forest, Montana

6 Replies
Spruce forest in Snow, Lewis and Clark National Forest, Montana

Hey Folks,

Yellowstone at last. It took us a while. We travelled hard from Glacier National Park to here. Some expert driving (from yours truly, no less!), but I finally managed to land my parents in Yellowstone. Yellowstone National Park is the oldest national park in the US, and my parents are quite possibly the oldest parents in the US; my dad is 387 and mum turns 373 in a few days. They do pretty well for their age, but they’re definitely

Continue reading →

Mt. Edith Cavell, Jasper National Park, Canada

Leave a reply
Tourists, Mt Edith Cavell, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada.

Hey Folks

Well, here I am in Banff. I’m still riding around the countryside with my parents, who give new meaning to the word “doddering”.

We’ve visited nearly every public toilet in western Canada, which has been a real treat. So far, I haven’t had to unleash any violence, but I may resort to that medium of regulation sometime in the near future. My patience has been the mainstay of what stability we’ve managed to clutch. Dad doesn’t listen, and mum mumbles; a potent combination.

Actually, they’re doing OK, and I’m really enjoying showing them some of my favorite parts of the world.

Continue reading →

Double Rainbow, Brooks Range, ANWR, Alaska

2 Replies
Rainbow over Brooks range, ANWR, Alaska

hey Folks,

This is another photo from my series of photos from ANWR.

This particular evening I was returning back to camp about midnight when this rainbow appeared. It had been a pretty long day, and I was actually ready to hit the sack. At first the rainbow wasn’t that special, and I kept trying to convince myself it was ‘just a rainbow’, and not worth heading over to photograph it.

As I got nearer my camp, the rainbow started to glow stronger, and then a second rainbow appeared behind it. I grabbed my polariser (filter)and started looking around for a composition to complement the rainbow. I loved the lichen covered boulder seen here, and spent some time trying to figure how to make a nice photo from a couple of scattered rocks. I ended up with a few compositions from here, and maybe I’ll post another tomorrow.

Continue reading →

Brooks Mountains, ANWR, Alaska

2 Replies
Valleys and ridges, Brooks Mountain Range, ANWR, Alaska

Hey Folks,

Here’s another image from my trip to ANWR. This particular afternoon was early in the trip, and we hiked up around some ridgelines in the Brooks Range, not far from the Upper Marsh Fork river. It was an awesome afternoon, and we spent several hours clambering around the hillsides. The wind picked up pretty strongly, after a while. I had carried a tiny little gitzo tripod with me, and it really wasn’t up to the task of holding up my camera gear in wind this strong.

Continue reading →

Brooks Range trip, ANWR, Alaska

2 Replies
Arctic Lupine and an unnamed mountain, ANWR, Alaska

Hey Folks,

Here’s the second photo from this series on ANWR. This photo was taken in the middle of the night. It doesn’t get any darker than this in the arctic north during the summer months, unless there’s serious cloud cover. I had camped near the junction of the Marsh Fork and Canning River, just north of the Continental Divide in the Brooks Range, ANWR. After dinner I set out on a walk to look around and to maybe make a few photos. I hadn’t gone far when the mosquitoes starting driving me crazy. My hiking buddy said he’d “had enough” and returned to the safety of his tent. I trooped on, and ended up having a nice walk.

Continue reading →

Whitewater kayaking, Baker River, Chile

Leave a reply

Collection of Photos and Posts from the Baker River

whitewater kayaker, Baker River, Patagonia, Chile.

Hey Folks

Here’s another of my buddy Matze, running a little drop on the Baker River, in Patagonia, Chile. The Baker River is absolutely awesome, 4 or 5 of the biggest Class 5 rapids anywhere. It’s huge water. I was fortunate that some of my friends were nice enough to get out of bed early one morning and come run the Baker in nice light. Matze took this crazy line after doing some scouting – it wasn’t his smoothest line, but he made it OK.

Continue reading →

Whitewater kayaking on the Fuatelufu River, Patagonia, Chile

Leave a reply
Whitewater Kayaking on the Futaleufu River, Patagonia, Chile

Hey Folks,

This photo is of my friend Ken Kruger running an 8′ drop in a rapid known as “Terminator”. This photo shows about 1/100 of the rapid. Terminator’s HUGE, and aptly named. We were running a whitewater rafting trip down the Futaleufu River, and the water level was high. While all the guests walked the rapid, and we ghosted the boats down the river, the kayakers paddled it. I got into position below this drop, and was lucky to get Ken with his mullet flying

Continue reading →

Kayaking Crazy Creek, Futaleufu, Chile

Leave a reply
Whitewater kayaker hiking to the put in

Hey Folks,

Here’s a photo of a friend of mine, Matthias Melcher, whom everyody calls, for some reason, “Matze”. This was taken in the first few weeks of my time in Fuateufu, Chile. It had been raining incessantly for some time, and this little creek called “Crazy Creek” was running high. Matze wanted to paddle it (I think because it had the word ‘crazy’ in the name), though he’d never run it before, and never scouted it either. In fact, I believe maybe only one or 2 people had kayaked it previously (Matze’s a little bit crazy).

Continue reading →