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April 2003: I took a shooting holiday in Germany. This is where life-partner, Antje, is from so we visited family and checked out old haunts. I must say, for one that is not a fan of big cities, I enjoyed Berlin very much. Also the landscape was much more serene and pastoral than I had expected, especially in the former East Germany. We will return and spend more time in the north around the Baltic.





July 2003: I led a land-based tour in Newfoundland for Natural Habitat Adventures, a Colorado-based adventure tour company. (www.nathab.com) This excursion took me back into the nature interpretation business and I decided I would do more of it. The whales and seabirds were spectacular.






August 2003: I worked with Adventure Canada (www.adventurecanada.com) on an adventure cruise from Greenland to the Canadian high arctic. This was the furthest north I have been. They say when you feel the bite of the north it goes deep. So it is for me.








September 2003: Again I worked with Adventure Canada (www.adventurecanada.com) on an adventure cruise from Greenland across Davis Strait, down the coast of Labrador and ending in St. John's. The Labrador coast is a wild and spectacular area. Uninhabited north of Nain, it feels timeless and elemental.








September 2003: Once more with Adventure Canada (www.adventurecanada.com) we sailed from St. John's around the island of Newfoundland, moved west to Cape Breton and ended our trip in Halifax. This is my homeland and I know it well. Sometimes this familiarity makes photography more difficult because you loose the wonder of fresh eyes. This is a challenge that shooters often face.







October - November 2003: Natural Habitat Adventures (www.nathab.com) contracted me to serve as an adventure guide in Churchill, Manitoba where the polar bears congregate early each winter before they return to the ice of Hudson's Bay. It was wonderous to be able to get so close to the bears and remain safe. This is one of the world's great natural spectacles.