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I trekked into K2 Base Camp in 1978 and we ate freeze dried food almost exclusively for 36 days. Perhaps you would not suffer the side effects we experienced if you have a meal here or a meal there but a steady diet of this food was nearly lethal. The ill effects were almost universal among...

It's not like these people died because of poorly built bridges or dangerously designed roads or slippery rocks at the scenic overlooks or blind crosswalks on steep downhill curves or gift shop bookshelves falling on top of them. Some of them have died because of a poor judgement that some...

During some long solo hikes I have experienced a clarity of mind that is akin to what is described here as flow. My mind will drift off into periods of non-conscious thought as I felt as if I was absorbed by the woods around me. I call it cruising but what you call it is unimportant. I have...

Warning: I've tried very hard to be sensitive but some people may not appreciate my semi-sarcastic view on realism. Read at your own peril. The problem with common sense is that it isn't. Many visitors to "natural" settings are woefully ignorant of any of the unforgiving forces in the real...

Very well done! Nice shot of Becca among the ferns in the birch forest. Good diversion to a lesser known destination. JohnL

Wild Lettuce Lactuca canadensis There were numerous feeding frenzies around the wildflowers today. Every group of Joe-Pye Weed I saw had a swarm of insects around it. Even the crowd around the Monkeyflower below forced me to wait in line to get a clear shot at the flower. The bee/fly that...

Patrick, I really like the way you weave your story through so few words and allow the photos do the talking. Their content and arrangement are such that there is a pleasant continuity from one photo to the next. We get to see the overall scenes as well as the stuff that is up close and...

Good taste? Jeesh, now you’re bringing in another place where we have to draw another line in the sand. It’s tough enough to figure out all this artsy stuff. I’m gonna bypass that one. Okay, let’s talk about distraction. I would call this photograph distracting but I would not call this...

After taking some sunrise shots along the Concord River, I took a walk along the Battle Road Trail in Concord and found some wildflowers. Not exactly wilderness but it was quiet at 7AM in a light rain. Spiked (Dense) Blazing Star; Gay Feather Liatris spicata Woodland Sunflower Helianthus...

Look again. Page 33: Gerry ad sure looks like an internal frame pack. Page 88: Ad for Lowe Expedition pack. Internal frame pack introduced in 1973. I bought mine in '77. Page 91: Ad for Hine Snowbridge Serex, another internal frame pack. Lots of cool old stuff. I liked the "Coming in...

Foot injuries have stopped me from hiking two of the last three years so I was even unable to do a lot of activities that other people have listed. Nature photography has always been a love of mine and the injuries provided opportunities to get deeper into my camera work. I also had it in mind...

There was a broadcast Tuesday evening (I am not sure if it was the local CBS news or the network) that showed an amateur video of the trio losing their balance and going over the falls. At the time, I was watching from an adjacent room and didn’t know from where the video was shot. This would...

Cardinal Flower Lobelia cardinalis JohnL

From the backyard this afternoon: Spotted Touch-me-not Impatiens capensis Indian Pipe Monotropa uniflora Canada Mayflower, The Berries Maianthemum canadense JohnL

We hiked next to the tracks a couple winters ago and we were joined by scores of skiers; some skiing down Burt Ravine and some down into Ammo. We left the tracks at Jacobs Ladder and took the ridge up to the summit. Great views down into Ammo Ravine from near Jacob's Ladder: The descent...

Billy, Very nice pano. I have found that reflections in water are about a full stop underexposed from the actual scene. So you will have some natural darkening from the effect of the water consuming some of the light. It also appears that in your scene, the water near the shore appears to be...

I would think that there would be a pretty short list of professional photographers who did not use filters or other devices in their toolkit in which they enhanced their images. As mentioned previously, Ansel Adams was a master not only under the hood of his large format camera but in the...

Excellent detail in the sky. You can see the clouds letting loose all over the place. Nice capture. JohnL

Thanks so much for the kind comment. I have a lot of fun doing it and along with a sense of discovery, that's what keeps me motivated. JohnL

Photography is art. There is no line to cross. Photoshop is to the darkroom as a jpg is to a slide. Before photography there was painting. Was "Washington Crossing the Delaware" art or documentary? Were the impressionists overdoing it compared to the realists? Many documentary photographs...