I like to travel a lot. Now I bring my camera on every trip. I've been to Australia, the Azores, Beijing, Belgium, Chile, Costa Rica, Easter Island, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, Italy (for the FOOD, if nothing else!), Macau, Moscow, the Netherlands, South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Zimbabwe, as well as all over Canada and the United States. Several of these places are represented in my images.

I have a completely digital set up; I don't own a film camera. My main camera is a Nikon D2X, which I really like. I have a Fuji S2 as a backup too. I've achieved great results with Nikon and Sigma lenses.

My "big gun" is a Sigma 300-800mm f/5.6, which took all the eclipse images. The bird of prey images were taken with a Nikon 600mm f/4, now sold. The other wildlife shots were mainly taken with a Sigma 50-500mm or a Nikon 80-400mm VR, both great lenses. I really like being able to hand-hold the Nikon VR, even when zoomed out to its max. The landscapes and flora were shot with a Sigma 28-70mm f/2.8 and a Nikon 28-105mm macro.

On the printing side, my Epson 960 gives me great results for 8x10s. For bigger prints, my Epson 7600 really shone while it lasted (7+ years); I have a Canon iPF6300 now.

I use Photoshop as little as I can get away with, to fix minor exposure and white balance issues, and dust motes on the CCD. My goal there is to get the resulting image as close to what I actually saw as I can. Once in a great while I'll clone over a partial bloom in a floral shot, for example, that isn't the focal point of the shot. Pretty rare, though.

Don Gale, a great photographer and teacher, was nice enough to let me use this shot he took of me at a seminar he put on in Canada, off the coast of Vancouver. Check out http://www.photographybydon.com for great field courses!