In black and white photography you have to see differently. Black and white are merely shades of gray. If you take away color, the pigment that paints a picture in our mind, you realize there are no opposite poles. Black and white are connected through a sea of gray. At what point does gray become white or black? Without reds, oranges and yellows to signal heat, alarm or excitement, without blues and greens to signal coolness, peace and tranquility, they all become the same, just in a...

She is a girl that loves her goose. A goose she adopted, that was orphaned and needed someone to raise it, and give it love. When I first met Allie, she and I were in the Master Naturalist class that is held every year through Phinizy Swamp Nature Park. I remember her telling me that she had a new family member, and it was a goose. Because of this, the two of us became friends rapidly. We had something in common: a love for these monotone-colored birds of gray - the Canada goose. When I was...

Thanks to Jim Garvey for capturing this shot of me shooting the waves. A ghost forest with dead and dying trees thanks to climate change and salt water intrusion. A puzzle in the den. The "Octopus Tree" Time passes in front of your eyes here. Footprints wash away and shells are sucked back into the current with each wave. On a humid summer morning I sat on the beach facing eastward, towards the ocean, on a deteriorated erosion piling. The waves crashed around me and the soft, spongey sand...