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I am a natural history photographer. I enjoy making compelling images in the ocean, on land, and in the air. I have maintained the Natural History Photography blog since 2005 and my searchable Natural History Photography Library since 1997. Here are some tear sheets and behind the scenes views. Thanks for looking!

New Work – June 2011 New Work

New Work – June 2011

See my most recent set of New Work or go back in time to see what I was shooting in New Work - June 2011. I just added some new images from Joshua Tree National Park to my stock photography archive. Take a look at a selection of my Joshua…
June 16, 2011
Surfing Penguins FalklandsPenguinSouthern Ocean

Surfing Penguins

Last year I got to cross off one of my bucket list items: surfing penguins. I was fortunate to see surfing gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) on New Island in the Falkland Islands. After hiking around some of New Island for most of the afternoon, visiting a couple of penguin and…
April 27, 2011
Tortured Landscape, White Pocket, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument ArizonaThe American SouthwestWhite Pocket

Tortured Landscape, White Pocket, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument

White Pocket was the highight of our recent banzai trip to northern Arizona and southern Utah. A remote and spectacular setting in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument that includes such well-known landscapes as the Wave, North Coyote Buttes and Buckskin Gulch (thank you Bill Clinton!), White Pocket lies not far…
April 25, 2011
iPhone Panorama Photos iPhone

iPhone Panorama Photos

Making Panoramic Photographs with the Apple iPhone 4 First, a Bit of Background... I recently shared a fun roadtrip with some buddies for a bit of fresh air and landscape photography at a handful of iconic American Southwest locations. Each of us had the iPhone 4 so naturally we spent…
April 4, 2011
Tabular Iceberg Photos AntarcticaSouthern Ocean

Tabular Iceberg Photos

Photos of Tabular Icebergs in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean Some of the most impressive sights I beheld during my trip along the Antarctic Peninsula were enormous tabular icebergs. Tabular icebergs are sheets of ice, sometimes many miles long, that detach from Antarctica and travel with currents about the Southern…
March 25, 2011
Backyard Wilderness Skip's Trips

Backyard Wilderness

From Skip: I jokingly suggested to Phil that I should do a blog entry titled ”Skip Stubbs in the wilds of his backyard” based on my rejected photos for this year’s nature’s best backyards contest. He said “sure, we could do that.” So here we go. All photos were taken…
February 10, 2011
Cute Harbor Seal CaliforniaHarbor SealWildlife

Cute Harbor Seal

This harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) was quite animated. Most of the harbor seals lie on the sand throughout the day, resting between foraging sessions in the ocean, while younger/smaller seals seem to exhibit most of the activity. It is nearly February and just about time for newborn harbor seal pups…
January 27, 2011
Photography Expedition to Antarctica, South Georgia Island and the Falkland Islands AntarcticaDownloadsFalklandsSouth Georgia IslandSouthern OceanWisdom

Photography Expedition to Antarctica, South Georgia Island and the Falkland Islands

I've finally gathered blog posts and select images into an informal report of my trip to the Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia Island and the Falkland Islands in January 2010, which is available along with my other articles, reports and downloads. This trip was so much fun, and so rich in…
December 30, 2010