There is wondrous variety of wildlife that live all around us —we often think we need to leave the city to see wild animals —but I believe that if we slow down and look around, that even in the city we can experience the wonder of the wild world not far from our own backyards or city parks.
Coyote in Discovery Park. There is urban wildlife living in the city most people don’t see.
A mother Great Horned Owl and her two owlets in Shoreline.
A pair of Great Blue Herons courting in Seattle.
A jay riding out a rainy Seattle day.
A Short Eared Owl hunting at Samish Flats.
A River Otter family at Discovery Park waits to dash across the beach.
A House Finch eats plum blossoms in Seattle.
A Pileated woodpecker takes flight in Seattle.
A Pileated woodpecker foraging.
A dragonfly skimming over the surface of a pond at Kubota Garden in Seattle.
Washington State is home to a small number of nesting Tufted Puffins.
Migrating Snow Geese at Samish Flats.
Sand Hill Cranes at sunset at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in Central New Mexico.
Migrating Sandhill cranes at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico.
Water droplets on a web of an Orb Weaver spider.
Baby raccoons are wide awake while their mother trys to sleep.
The moon rises under fireworks at Lake Union.
Lanterns released on Green Lake in Seattle for the Hiroshima to Hope remembrance.
The magical, majestic, and hard-to-find Brúárfoss waterfall in Iceland.
Pele greets the stars from her home in Halema’uma’u Crater in the Kilauea caldera at Volcano National Park on the Big Island of Hawai’i.
Peeking through the greenery at Rainbow Falls in Hilo, Big Island of Hawai’i.
Past work
A different viewpoint of Oracle’s plane flying above the Seattle waterfront (yes, I’m also in a plane).
I've photographed everything from fireworks to fire breathers.
The CEO of the Glass Distillery in the SODO neighborhood of Seattle.
I won a national SDX award in 2012 for a story on Tom Douglas and his restaurants.
Martha Francis has been making pasta at Tom Douglas Restaurants for 16 years.
Martha Francis rolls fresh agnolotti dal plin. Francis estimates that in her 16 years, she has made more than 5 million of these plin.
In the early morning hours at the Dahlia Workshop, bakers will make dough for 300-500 Brave Horse pretzels.
The Rub with Love salmon at Etta's inspired the Tom Douglas Rub with Love line of spice rubs.
Vodka is filled by hand into custom-made bottles at Glass Distillery in Seattle.The first commercial flight of the Boeing 787 lands at Sea-Tac.
The Women’s March in Seattle drew 130,000 people to the streets.Shell No Protest in Seattle.
President Bill Clinton speaks at Microsoft, with Steve Ballmer to his left.
The Dalai Lama fist bumps musician Dave Mathews.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz.
Team Canada practices at the Richmond Oval for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Los Angeles Galaxy against Real Salt Lake during the 2009 Major League Soccer Cup championship match.
Ichiro hits the ball during a Seattle Mariners game.
Boston Red Sox pitcher Dice K.
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