Doing the Math…

Like most decisions in life, choosing to chase tornadoes requires making a personal risk/reward calculation. The risks are real, but for me the potential reward was worth giving storm chasing one try. But a funny thing happened to my math on that first trip: the answer changed. I think I’ve made it pretty clear in prior posts that the reward side of the storm…

You Keep Using That Word…

Retirement? … I do not think it means what you think it means. I’ve been talking about retirement for a few years now, mentally plotting that soft landing into a rocking chair on my porch, chasing kids off the lawn, by 2030. Comparing this year’s workshop schedule to the 2024 schedule, at first glance it might appear that I’m right on track. Gone are…

When in Iceland…

Puffin Profile, Dyrhólaey, Iceland Sony a7R VI Sony 100-400 GM ISO 800 f/8 1/800 second I’ve never been to Rome and have no idea what Romans do, but I have been to Iceland enough to know that when in Iceland, you photograph puffins. So, despite years of proclaiming that I never photograph anything that moves, in Iceland earlier this month I was able to…