Marla and I traveled to Costa Rica for our 10th anniversary last month and I just added a new Costa Rica gallery. There's also a new article about visiting an endangered leatherback sea turtle nest on Western Wild.

Wishing you a safe, joyous, holiday season - however you happen to celebrate. We'll be taking some time to reflect on things that matter most and look forward to a great 2012. Cheers!

I just completed the second of three expeditions for the "Tripods In The Mud" collaboration to protect the Absaroka-Beartooth Front from widespread industrial energy production. Greater Yellowstone Coalition deserves credit for their vision and plan to partner with the International League of Conservation Photographers and spread the message to stakeholders across the country. I'm enormously grateful for the opportunity to be the photographer for the project and no hyperbole - the A-B Front is the most important wild landscape remaining in the West. My new A-B Front gallery is here.

Like a moth to a flame, the pull of the San Juan Mountains led us to Colorado's Lizard Head Wilderness for backpacking and climbing; then to the spectacular Ice lakes over Labor Day week. We just barely beat the first blast of winter too - Colorado's high peaks are now covered with a thin layer of fresh snow. Our trip is chronicled in a photo essay on my Western Wild blog.