My Photographs Are a Revenue Stream — For Nextdoor

My Photographs Are a Revenue Stream — For Nextdoor

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Three of my posts, three advertisements I never approved, and roughly $1,200 of advertising revenue that went to the company hosting them. Then I read Nextdoor’s own documentation and found out the ads had never stopped — I had just stopped seeing them.

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The Damselflies of Oaks Bottom

The Damselflies of Oaks Bottom

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Five eyes, two sets of genitalia, wings with no pigment in them, and a childhood spent underwater as an ambush predator. Fourteen photographs from the lake shore, and how to tell one from a dragonfly.

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Build Your Own Tiny Refuge

Build Your Own Tiny Refuge

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I live on a city lot in Portland. The whole garden would fit in a lot of people’s living rooms — and it is the most effective stress relief I have ever found. What the science actually says, what brings the wildlife in, and why small does not mean insignificant.

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The Only Wealth That Matters

The Only Wealth That Matters

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I am 54, on no medication, and earlier this summer I did a thousand pushups in a day. Not to impress you — so you know this comes from practice. Why health is the only thing you actually own, and what it genuinely costs.

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The Ospreys of the Willamette

The Ospreys of the Willamette

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The bird that fishes the Willamette by falling out of the sky feet-first — the hover, the dive, the miss, and the climb back out. Photographed from the Sellwood Bridge.

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The Hawks of Portland

The Hawks of Portland

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Two completely different birds share the name hawk. Learn to tell a buteo from an accipiter and the whole city reorganizes itself. Red-tailed, red-shouldered and Cooper’s hawks, photographed in Oregon.

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The Owls of Oaks Bottom

The Owls of Oaks Bottom

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There are owls in Oaks Bottom. Most people who walk the loop never see one, and that is not bad luck — it is the entire design. An owl’s daytime job is to be invisible, and they are extremely good at it. Everything below was photographed a few miles from downtown Portland, mostly by standing …

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Herons and Egrets of the Willamette

Herons and Egrets of the Willamette

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Three of them share the same water here, and most people only ever notice one. The great blue heron is unmissable — four feet of gray patience standing in the shallows, Portland’s official city bird since 1986. The great white egret is the bright one, the shape that stops traffic on the Sellwood Bridge. And …

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Bald Eagles of Portland and Neskowin

Bald Eagles of Portland and Neskowin

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There are two places I photograph bald eagles. One is a floodplain refuge inside the city of Portland, ten minutes from my house. The other is a beach on the Oregon coast where I have been going for a good part of my life. The birds are the same species. The lives they lead are …

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The Garter Snakes of Oaks Bottom

The Garter Snakes of Oaks Bottom

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There is a moment, when something long and quick moves through the grass beside your foot, when the body decides before the mind does. Everybody has it. I have it. Then the mind catches up, and if you are lucky enough to be in Oaks Bottom on a warm morning, what you are looking at …

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The Bees Next Door

The Bees Next Door

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When people picture a bee, they picture a honeybee — hive, queen, honey, the whole operation. But most of the bees actually working your garden aren’t honeybees at all. Oregon has hundreds of native bee species, and the great majority of them are solitary: no hive, no queen, no honey. Just one female, running her …

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Plant the Flowers — Hummingbirds from Neskowin to Sellwood

Plant the Flowers — Hummingbirds from Neskowin to Sellwood

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Neskowin is a tiny village on the Oregon coast that has quietly turned itself into a bird sanctuary. The locals plant with intention — gardens full of flowers chosen to feed the travelers — and the birds have noticed. Songbirds fill the hedges, and the hummingbirds come in numbers: the year-round Anna’s, and in season, …

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The Painted Cedar Waxwings: A Stunning Bird Profile

The Painted Cedar Waxwings: A Stunning Bird Profile

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Of all the birds that pass through Portland, none looks less real than the cedar waxwing. Its plumage is so sleek it seems airbrushed on. A fawn crest, a black mask, and a tail tipped in bright yellow appear. Those tiny red droplets on the wings look like beads of sealing wax and give the …

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A Boy, His Collie, and a Stampede

A Boy, His Collie, and a Stampede

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This is Prince — my collie, and my best friend growing up. 🐾 I’ve shared his portrait before, but I’ve never told the story that made him a legend in our family. It’s time. When I was about ten years old, Prince and I were crossing a cow pasture on the way to our favorite …

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Ringo Comes Home

Ringo Comes Home

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He turned up while I was in the middle of remodeling downstairs — a lean, friendly cat with no collar, hungry and thirsty and clearly a long way from wherever he belonged. I was building out an Airbnb suite at the time, and before I knew it he’d wandered right in and made himself at …

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The Neighborhood Cats

The Neighborhood Cats

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Every neighborhood has its cast of regulars — and not all of them are people. Ours comes with a whole roster of cats, each one working its own territory on its own schedule with its own particular attitude. Lately I’ve been photographing them as I meet them on my walks, and they have personality to …

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