Chasing The Blue Beyond

Dubai / Contradiction / Designed Reality Dubai: Ice in the Desert An indoor rink, an unforgettable pool, long street names, and a city that treats contradiction as an engineering brief. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Dubai makes the improbable feel operational: winter inside summer, water beside sand, and scale treated as a starting point rather than a limit. Field Notes A City Built From Contradictions The original photographs do not need an elaborate explanation. Together they capture the city’s essential trick: Dubai places opposing conditions beside one another and makes the result feel completely normal. Signal 01 Cold Inside Heat An ice-skating rink in the desert is not merely novelty. It is a decla...

New York to Norway · Foreign Land Being a New Yorker in the Fjords An abiding sense of tragedy, briefly interrupted by waterfalls, Viking waters, and temporary periods of joy. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Being a New Yorker, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. Ordinary World Being a New Yorker Gorge...ous Field Transmission Inside the Fjord Archive Image The Seven Sisters ...

Alaska: Where Wilderness Is Therapy Field Archive / Alaska Alaska Where Wilderness Is Therapy The wilderness makes me want to wrap myself in tinfoil and walk on the moon. Glacier Bay Tracy Fjord Inside Passage 8-Stage Journey 01 Ordinary World 02 Call 03 Threshold 04 Foreign Land 05 Trials 06 Revelation 07 Return 08 Elixir The Golden Thread Mother Nature always delivers. "Alaska is a lot like pizza. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good; and like the Pizza Guy, Alaska always delivers." 01 Ordinary World / Seattle Seattle - The Journey Begins July 2012 Seattle / Archive Image 01 The adventure begins in Seattle - "The Flannel Manner." I have my reservations, but the call of the Last Frontier beckons. This is where different ships converge, but we're all embarking on the same boat - Mother Nature's. "Energy flows where attention goes. Sometimes, I get an incredible ROI, return o...

Alaska Field Notes · King of Fish Salmon Fishing I had been fishing all season—not only for the fish, but for what wild salmon symbolize: the Pacific Northwest’s natural splendor. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir There is a fine line between fishing and standing on a bridge looking like an idiot—unless you are in Alaska holding a salmon. The Call Truly the King of Fish King of Fish In Alaska, the bridge, the river and the salmon all become part of the proof. I have been fishing all season, but not only for the fish. I have been fishing for what the wild salmon symbol...

More like Blue Sky Fjords  205 inches of rain a year and not one drop today. A unique Alaskan experience— We took off from Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane Base,  and the self-proclaimed Salmon capital of the world---the place where people don't get old, they rust...and rust never sleeps. Up in the air for 30 minutes on the single engine "flying boat" and the small remote mountain lakes  we saw below would be next to impossible to reach on foot, a reminder that most of this area is still wilderness and accessible only by small boat or plane.  In the heyday, I could imagine how snail mail (US) delivery runs must have been done this way. Hey Hey, My My Yet they were spectacular by air, like waves  each one  more powerful than the next. Pilot Jeff Carlin, picked out one of the lakes, landed the "puddle jumper"  and  JC turned off the noisy diesel engine that was a reminder that we left  the  the buzz of everyday life. A kind of...

The way I see it, if you want to see Rainbow Falls, you gotta put up with the rain. I think salmon fish in the package is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? Many consider the Tongass National Forest to be the "crown jewel" of our national forest system  One thing for sure- It's a  Watershed Moment---A point in time when nothing after will ever be the same as before when it comes to my appreciation for precipitation. It's no longer  the path of moist resistance. I like the rain. I finally got my bearings...

Alaska Origin Story · Ferry North Bears? No Guarantee. Totem Poles? Absolutely. I boarded the Alaska Marine Highway in Bellingham looking for passage north. By the time we reached Ketchikan, I had three job offers and an entirely different summer. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir I went north as a passenger. I arrived with three job offers and a summer job explaining why wildlife refuses to honour the brochure. The Call The Ferry North I took the Alaska Marine Highway from Bellingham, Washington, to Ketchikan, Alaska. It was not supposed to be a career move. It was transportation. Somewhere between the Inside Passage, the cold deck air and the steady parade of isla...