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Every year, usually fall or winter, several photographer friends and I get together and go camping in the Mt. Katahdin region of Maine. I live nearby and know the area well, but we still find new roads to explore and new streams or ponds to canoe that we’ve never seen before. This particular morning, as we were exploring some backwoods roads in the rain looking for moose and autumn colors, we found this small valley with a winding turn headed to destinations unknown and it made a compelling panorama. I titled it “Sinuous” because it means moving in a curving or indirect way, but also graceful and meandering. Life is full of twists and turns, and you never know what is around the bend... read more

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At 5:11pm on July 25, 2016, New York City witnessed one of the most impressive lightning strikes ever photographed. An enormous bolt rocked Downtown Manhattan and Jersey City, completely spanning the Hudson River - and I had my camera set up to capture it.

It was a sweltering day at the height of summer and a thunderstorm was quickly approaching from the west, spreading an oil-slick of darkness in front of it. I've photographed countless storms, but as this particular one roared in from a distance, I knew it was going to be special. A beautiful wall cloud was quickly advancing in front of the rain curtain, electrifying the sky with cloud-to-ground lightning.

Brimming with excitement, I perched myself high up on a building in downtown Manhattan. The air, still thick with the smell of a sunny summer afternoon, was eerily calm as I set up my gear and began exposing images, hoping to capture one of these strikes branching out in front of the rain. Being exposed and elevated hundreds of feet outside with my camera wasn't the safest idea, but it was a risk I was willing to take... read more

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