As some of you know, I’ve had a wild few months but am excited about what is on my upcoming agenda.  Next Monday I will be starting a Masters program through Full Sail University based out of Winter Park, Florida. I will be studying Education Media Design & Technology through a one year online program. It has been a long time since I have had classes and assignments, but I am excited about getting back into school and all the challenges that go with that.

Also, I have really missed writing for this blog and I have especially missed the interaction and feedback I get through the comments. As spring is slowly arriving here in New York, I am going to be returning to this blog and hopefully generating some good discussion. I hope to spend at least a couple days each week photographing and plan to be posting a lot of images. However, with school starting on Monday, I am not sure what sort of free time I will have. In any case, I have been spending some time with my photo archives this winter and will be pulling images from there if I don’t have anything new to post.

Anyway, I’d like to officially welcome you to the new Wanderer’s Apprentice, and I look forward to hearing your thoughts and comments in upcoming discussions. Stick around and let me know what you think!

Right now, we have two guides for sale covering Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida, but we have more currently in development and I will be updating the site as they are published.  I hope to have at least one or two more published by the end of this year and a large wave coming next year.

In the meantime, if you are considering a trip to South Florida to photograph birds or the unique landscape of the Everglades, be sure to stop by and check out our site guides!

Additionally, we are offering a 25% discount for our first two weeks so be sure to pick up a copy of the guides before November 15th to take advantage of the sale!

It is a fun and interesting process but requires meticulous precision and painstaking attention to detail.  We will be here through the end of next week and then its back to New York where Carrie will be starting class and I’ll be processing the photos, video, and time lapse sequences I have created over the last month.  I also will be able to get back to blogging regularly and get to all those things on my to do list that got pushed back for this project.

Check out the panos in the meantime and I’ll be in touch soon!

There is a chance that I will be able to get on site and create a series of panoramas of the ship and the excavation but we aren’t sure yet.  Details are still being worked out so I am just headed down prepared to either shoot or work from the hotel.  Whatever happens, We will be in the city for at least the next week or so.  I’ll post some more details about the project sometime this coming week once I know more myself.

If you are in the City and want to meet up for coffee or a drink, shoot me an email or leave a comment here.  Hope everyone has a great week!

This doesn’t mean things will be completely silent, but posts will be sporadic at best.  I’ve got a lot on my plate so my focus has to fall elsewhere.  I am currently in the final stages of launching the website for my Costa Rican project, Canopy in the Clouds.  We’ll be going live next week with a soft release prior to a day of meetings at National Geographic about the project on Thursday.  The official launch will be coming shortly after those meetings, and we look forward to getting the project out there after two and half years of hard work.

In addition to this major launch, I’ve got two new business ventures in the works, at least one of which should be launching here in the next month, followed by the second later this summer.  Add to that the fact that my wife and I are moving next weekend over Memorial Day and trying to get ready for that.  Ultimately, it comes down to the fact that I have a lot of on my plate and while I hope to share when I get out to photograph, I don’t see that happening as much as I had hoped.  I’ll be back in early to mid June depending on my schedule but hope to see you then!

Evening in the Everglades - Everglades National Park, Florida

I have a quick announcement for those readers in the central New York and Ithaca area.  Monday night (yes that’s tomorrow) I will be presenting a talk on the Everglades at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for the Cayuga Bird Club.  The meeting starts at 7:30 and I will probably start talking about 8:00.  All are welcome to attend.  If you’ll be there, let me know so I can say hi afterwards.  Sorry for the short notice, but hope to see you there.

Lesser Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) - Milnesand, New Mexico

Thanks for all the feel better comments and emails.  I am getting there, slowly but surely and I will be back on Monday with a full week of posts, I promise.  After that, spring Migration should be pretty much in full swing and I will try to be out photographing on a daily basis so there should be lots of new content up and coming.  See you then and hope everyone has a great weekend!

The move also gave me an opportunity to make a few upgrades and improvements to the blog.  Again, most are simply performance based, but one will hopefully make the blog a better viewing experience.  Now, if you click on any image in a post, it will load a larger version.  I hope you find this a valuable feature and it allows you to get a better look at my photographs.

If you have any problems or suggestions with the site in the coming days or weeks, please don’t hesitate to email me or leave a comment here.  I think I have caught all the bugs, but I may have missed one or two.

Thanks for your help and look for new content starting Monday!

First off, I have received feedback that people would like to see larger images available on the blog.  Well, ask and you shall receive.  This weekend I will be working on implementing a lightbox function so that you can click on the image and see it much larger.  Look for this change to be online by Monday.

Second, I will be doing some additional work on the backend of the site.  I will be moving servers this weekend.  As I will be moving all of my sites, I have a fairly major task in front of me.  Please be patient as I work behind the scenes and remember that new content will be coming soon!

Now, what do you want to see different on the blog?  Is there anything you particularly enjoy or something that hasn’t really grabbed you?  I’d love to hear your feedback here in the comments or via email.  I’ve got a few new features in mind and starting next week I’ll be back to posting on a regular basis.  See you then!