ENTRY DESCRIPTION
I would have chosen a different spot to rest, but that's me. This female found this protruding piece of pack ice and proceeded to rest a bit before continuing her day in the arctic playground we call the Svalbard archipelago. This image was captured with a 600mm lens and 2x converter from the deck of a moving Class A ice breaker expedition vessel from about 500 meters.
AUTHOR
When I was 15 years old I discovered my love of photography. Instinctively, I knew that he wanted a proper camera after learning the basics with various Kodak Instamatics. My parents told me that if I wanted to buy one I had to use my own money so I had to get a job. My father, a Dean at Colgate University, made a phone call and I was gainfully employed at Colgate's food service making $2.30/hour washing pots and pans. To this day, I still can't stomach a pan-fried pork chop.
After several months, I had saved enough to buy my first real camera via mail order from 42nd Street Photo in New York City, a Pentax ME. Soon thereafter, I became a contributing sports photographer to The Colgate Maroon and was first published at the age of 16 with a shot of a Colgate hockey player scoring a goal and the puck frozen as it hit the back of the net.
Having graduated from Michigan State University with a B.A. in Business, I never received any formal training in photography other than the odd class and workshop over the years. Life moved on and I always knew deep down inside that when there was more time (and more money) I would dive back into photography. Fast forward to the Spring of 2020 in Redmond, WA I saw some Bald Eagles in a tree at the condo complex next door and I immediately rediscovered my love of photography. Then in November of 2020, after growing increasingly dissatisfied with the quality of life in the US, I permanently relocated to Valencia, España and decided to take my photographic game to another level. Now, my principal activity is as a Travel, Landscape and Wildlife photographer here and around Europe.
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