Every year they put on an ice castle attraction, putting color changing LEDs inside the ice, and let dripping water create huge ice sculptures. The colors seen here are not bumped up in photoshop (in fact

Celebrating Christmas, Scandinavian style. If you could't tell from my name, we're Scandinavian, and with the help of my S/O we try and bring that to every Christmas season. The first thing we do is put

Winter is here, so here are a couple snowfall pictures I have taken. Camera: Canon 5D Mark II Lens: 50mm Shutter Speed: 1/100th seccond Aperture: f/1.4 ISO: 1600 An abstract, which reminds me of a hubble

A couple weeks ago was the annual Geminid meteor shower where I spent 5 hours alone in the desert to try and capture meteors. Even though it is in the Arizona desert, at night, in December, the temperatures

While traveling through Scandinavia, one of our stops was in Bergen. It was an amazing (though expensive). "Bryggen, also known as Tyskebryggen, is a series of Hanseatic commercial buildings lining

Each Friday nearest to the solstice, the longest day of the year, is marked with dancing, singing, big meals (with lots of pickled herring and potatoes), and lots of drinking. This is Swedish Midsommar

Here are 12 of my favorite pictures I took on my adventure around southern Sweden. Taken with my Canon 5DmkII and EF17-40mm f/4L, 70-200 f/2.8L IS, 50mm f/1.4 Camera: Canon 5DII Lenses: EF17-40mm f/4L,

Here is another picture I took of the most gorgeous time to visit Italy; fall. This is a small villa I shot from across the ravine while exploring the sparse countryside :) The fog, and the lighting was

While on a fall vacation through Tuscany, we had actually picked olives from our friend's olive grove and then went to have them pressed in the local town press, and I shot this from the porch there. Fog

2 pictures I took of fall colors in rural Minnesota :) For this picture I actually had to lower the saturation and vibrancy. Camera: Canon 5DII Lens: EF70-200mm f/2.8L USM @ 90mm Shutter Speed: 1/80 sec

The last few warm days of the year, leaves changing colors, its the best time to lie back and relax in a hammock :) Camera: Canon 5DII Lens: EF17-40mm f/4L @ 17mm Shutter Speed: 1/5 sec Aperture: f/18

"GEOMAGNETIC STORMS CONTINUE: G1-class geomagnetic storms are ringing Earth's poles on Sept. 29th as a high-speed (600+ km/s) stream of solar wind continues to buffet our planet's magnetic field."

"A main geographic attraction of Farafra is its White Desert (known as Sahara el Beyda, with the word sahara meaning a desert) — a national park of Egypt and 45 km (28 mi) north of the town of Farafra,

Coming in for a landing after an evening flying over the city, I just happened to grab a shot with the prop in perfect alignment. Click to enlarge. Camera: Canon 5DII Lens: EF70-200mm f/2.8L USM @ 70mm

Once again, enjoying a few nice days of the short summer. Click to enlarge. Camera: Canon 5DII Lens: EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS @ 125mm Shutter Speed: 1/640 sec Aperture: f/2.8 ISO: 100 Click here to and see

I had to max out the shutter speed to 1/8000 to freeze what little bit of summer we get around here. Click to enlarge. Camera: Canon 5DII Lens: EF50mm f/1.4 USM Shutter Speed: 1/8000 sec Aperture: f/1.4

Even at night, Egypt is an amazingly gorgeous, yet busy place. It is the most amazing place to visit (I've been there twice) and there is always something going on. Taken from the rooftop of my Cairo hotel,

Midnight, on a silent dirt road in the middle of nowhere, auroras were silently pulsating and dancing above the North Dakota plains. It is said that up to 80 percent of US children growing up today will

No seriously, this was taken from the toilet: a gorgeous Tuscan landscape in autumn. We stayed in a friend's house that was hundreds of years old, with 100+ olive trees out back that we actually harvested

We loaded into a local bedouin's off-road vehicle and headed out on a 3 day journey through the Sahara Desert. As we left the only highway leading out, it only took us the first few meters before we were