Queen of Patagonia

Queen of PatagoniaIMAGE DESCRIPTION: This is from my first encounter with a wild puma. I had been there for six days without a sighting and was beginning to lose hope when the nearby herd of guancos began to make an alert call for possible threat. After a few minutes, the puma emerged on a distant ridge line. I used the topography to predict where she was going to go and positioned myself appropriately. It worked, and I was able to capture her in front of the

A river runs through a black spruce bog

I had a small window in which I could see her through the cattails

Elias National Park

A cow moose swims across a creek

A paddle boarder emerges from the fog on a beautiful autumn morning

A greater yellowegs wades through the ocean searching for food at lowtide

On a sunset paddle with my wife we encountered a cow moose with her calf

with this beautiful barred owl

exposing the radiant blue of the ancient ice with bubble channels

A common loon swims at sunset

and the horizontal ocean level lines as the iceberg continually melts

A creek flows through an old growth northern white cedar forest in northern Minnesota