It's been an amazing and extremely busy few months, with little down time. Teaching responsibilities and trips: the ghost town of Bodie, then London, Burgundy, Greece. A couple weeks of respite and doing some lectures, then off to Alaska for almost three weeks. Thousands of photos later, I am still sorting and processing.

I'll be getting to some of these photos soon; meanwhile, here is an image grabbed from my desktop. It was made in one of my favorite places in the world, The Brothers Islands in the heart of Frederick Sound, Alaska. Our athletic cook had decided to jog this wilderness beach on a tiny islet. After beaching her kayak, back and forth she went. I dragged out my 70-200 lens and Nikon D700 and took a series of photos. There's nothing special about technique here, just an evocative moment and magic light in a magical place.