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This year I’ll be preparing a butterflied turkey breast roulade, lined with prosciutto, stuffed with wild mushrooms and pancetta, rolled and tied and roasted to perfection. (Don’t worry you dark meat lovers—I’m roasting some thighs as well as a separate breast for sandwiches and leftovers!) For those of you who know me personally, you know that cooking is my passion and I am often found in the kitchen for hours on end when not at my desk. 

Roulade Recipe: https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/turkey-breast-roulade-with-crimini-porcini-and-pancetta-231089

So what will you be cooking? Many of you shared with us what you were

drinking the night of the election and thank you for that! It was fun how many people chimed in after our last communique! 

For our clients, we are truly grateful for your business during this pandemic and grateful that we can all carry on with digital image selections and collaborative projects! For our photographers who have been restricted from their usual travels, we are grateful that you are preparing compelling new images to offer our globally-based clients. We’re all interconnected in so many ways!

Warmly,

Seattle has nearly shut down everything, including universities, schools, theaters, concerts, conferences, sporting events and the like. It’s a good time to get some other things taken care of which we all too often put off, opting for more fun choices!

Wherever you are, however you’re working these days, just know you are not alone! The good thing about working with digital imagery is that we can continue to do our work no matter where we sit! Savanah’s been working remotely in Alaska for the past five years and we see her on her computer monitor every day and chat via Skype! Tom and Joseph continue to process our photographer’s images to ingest them to our website from afar, and we’re happy to make lightboxes and send you images for your projects.

We continue to add larger file sizes for those of you needing them for wall murals, calendars, double page spreads and the like. As our professional photographers work with new cameras and lenses, we see file sizes going to 100 mg and larger! Many are no doubt slowing down their travels right now, but have tons of images they’re moving into our editing queues and they have time to process their images, which is a good thing!

If you have a project we can help you with, please let us know. We can make lightboxes for you and/or teach you and your team how to make them for easy photo selections. Just ping us and we’ll walk you through the steps. We can also make downloading an entire lightbox available to you but need to set you up for that so please ask if that will help your workflow, rather than downloading one image after another.

Ok everyone, we hope you’re keeping healthy and safe no matter your circumstances. I have to say I’ve been skiing for the last two weekends and there’s a lot of open space and fresh air swooshing down the mountain! Taking hikes around here is another good option for getting out without exposing yourself too much!

Good luck with any self-imposed quarantine and enjoy the quiet undisturbed time to catch up with a few things you’ve had on the back burner. We’re here to help in any way!

With best wishes,

Danita and Team

Savanah, Joseph, Tom and Dave

We know the travel industry worldwide is praying for a return of eager travelers and we hope you can do your part in whatever way attracts you! In the meantime, take a break from your solitude and we hope you enjoy our Escapism program presented to you here: View Lightbox

With best wishes,

Danita and Team

Savanah, Joseph, Tom and Dave

As we move into the last few weeks of the election of our next President, I’d like to share some fun and often touching photos of our extraordinary America, from Sea to Shining Sea! 

We are truly blessed to have photographers documenting who we are as Americans across this great country of ours. Viewing their images for over twenty years has been inspiring and surprising as well. They have the trained eyes and skills to catch a waving flag from the right angle of the sun, or capture the simplicity and fun of a community parade. We grew up with the Pledge of Allegiance, waving our flags in parades or maybe even marching in parades and decorating our homes, pets and cars with Old Glory. Having lived on an US Air Base in Germany as a teenager, I marched in the drill team with “Stars and Stripes Forever” or “You’re a Grand Old Flag”. I am patriotic and fly our flag out front of our home during every American holiday.  

All across America we express our patriotism in many ways, both traditionally and individually, sometimes even with a bit of quirkiness! Our freedom of expression gives us the opportunity to be who we are and feel what we choose to feel! We as individuals can only say that we have voted if the ballot we cast comes from our own hearts -- our inner soul and conscience that tells us we are doing what is right for ourselves and for those we love and care about.

Please enjoy the images we’ll be sharing during this next month and most of all, please VOTE!

For all of this month we’ll be featuring images of what we find inspiring in America, from expressions of patriotism to the beauty of our country. View Patriotic Lightbox

Best Wishes,

Danita, Dave, Savanah, Joseph & Tom

Cheers to all!!

Best Wishes,

Danita, Dave, Savanah, Joseph & Tom

Please enjoy the images we’ll be sharing during this next month and most of all, please VOTE!

For all of this month we’ll be featuring images of what we find inspiring in America, from expressions of patriotism to the beauty of our country. View Patriotic Lightbox

Best Wishes,

Danita, Dave, Savanah, Joseph & Tom

Life is changing for many these days, but one thing we can all be sure of is that nature can take us to new places and enriches our soul. 

Savanah (our Director of Operations) is up in Sitka, Alaska, a remote island in Southeast. Dave and I went and visited last summer for a little fishing trip! She’s blessed to interact with nature and wildlife on a regular basis and has a few thoughts to share:

During these uncertain times I try to focus on what I can control and try to not stress about what is outside my realm. We focus on being outdoors, subsistence fishing/hunting for my 3 generations of family that live here, and keep my 2 boys happy and healthy. We recently took social distancing to a new level and got out on the boat to watch the whales for a few hours. There were over 50 humpback whales out feeding, you could see spouts in every direction for hours. This is what bring people to this amazing place to visit and we hope as soon as all is well in the world again, people will come back to experience what Alaska has to offer. Take a look at these two videos from this weekend, hope it relaxes and offers hope for a few minutes of your day. (5yr old commentary by my son)

Humpbacks 1 Humpbacks 2

Sitka like a lot of Southeast, AK is dependent on the port of Seattle to barge up groceries. Like everywhere else, people have stockpiled beyond normalcy in which the stores are out of basic essentials. My husband and I ordered a 20ft container arriving this week of flour, sugar, rice, water, chicken feed, toilet paper... to divide up and sell to locals to help the shortages. It''s an interesting time here in Alaska, we are currently ''sheltering in place'' or on our boat or distributing food, or working in our home office. Below is the view from the boat and view from my living room. I can shelter in place as long as I need to.

Although many of our nature and travel photographers are grounded these days, their amazing captures of our natural and cultural world are still available for your projects. We encourage you to get out and enjoy your natural world wherever you are, even if it’s just on a balcony watching a butterfly on your deck side plants!   

You are registered on our website and are authorized to download images 24/7 without any additional approval. We’re happy to work with your budget especially during these trying times where we’ll all have to be more flexible. If you need to reset your password or re-register, please do so here.

Stay safer everyone and take care!

Danita, Savanah, Joseph, Tom and Dave  

P.S. It’s getting weird here in Seattle (view video)

We’d like to share an Art.com class coming up this weekend featuring Lisa Merrill of Merrill Images, whom we’ve represented for many years. Lisa will be Live on Instagram with her program which you might find fun and an interesting diversion to your normal ”Saturday chores” day (is that still happening during our Sheltering at Home Days?).

Here’s the info: Join Merrill Images on Instagram Live @artdotcom  for a free 30 minute class “Travel Photography at Home” on Saturday April 25 at 2pm PST.

Merrill Images will help you create compelling images of your family, pets and living space, and jump-start your travel photography at home, so you can hone your skills before your next adventure. View the Merill Image collection on Art.com

We hope you’ll put this on your calendar for this Saturday (2:00 pm Pacific) and cheer them on with their efforts. We can all use a few tips on how to shoot, especially using a smart phone! 

How’s everybody doing?

While many of you are sheltering at home, we thought we’d share a few thoughts from our wonderful nature photographers. They too are stuck at home so we asked a few to share what the beauty and serenity of nature means to them in their own neck of the woods. 

Scott T. Smith is a Utah-based photographer who often roams the back woods wilderness areas with llamas packing his heavy gear. Chuck Haney is also an amazing landscape photographer based out of Montana. He’s often roaming the back roads looking for scenic beauty and the every-changing light on the landscape, he’s found the snow geese migration not far from home in his video.

Chuck Haney is a professional outdoor nature photographer photographer/writer based in Whitefish, Montana. When he’s not processing his images, you’ll find him snow-shoeing in the back country or swooshing down a mountain ski slope. He’s always on the hunt for great images, often in his kayak or on his mountain bike, always with his finger on the shutter!  He travels extensively in pursuit of the finest and most intriguing images. His provocative use of natural light in landscape, wildlife and outdoor sports images have drawn national acclaim and have landed him many assignments. His travel and outdoor lifestyle articles have been featured in numerous national and regional publications; adding to 16 coffee table books, over 250 magazine covers, and sole-photographer calendars to his credit. Chuck enjoys teaching a series of popular photography workshops across the country each year. 

Scott Smith enjoys working in the serenity of less visited wild places. Long hikes lasting all day beginning well before dawn and ending with headlamps in the dark are not unusual. He uses pack llamas to carry gear for extended back-country trips of several days to multiple weeks. In the past he used large-format gear that produced 4x5 inch film transparencies, and that meant 50 lbs. on his back for a day hike and perhaps 100 lbs. of camera gear on the llamas for a longer trip. These days he shoots with digital cameras often shooting multiple images of a scene he stitches together to create large detailed images. His favorite photo outing is to walk all day in a wild place with vistas stretching for miles, often on BLM or NFS lands in Utah. Aside from photography, Scott picks a banjo in a local country band where he and his wife built a cabin. Together they worked with their local community in Torrey UT to be designated one of the first “International Dark Sky” communities, dedicated to preserving the night sky for all to view, near Capital Reef National Park.

We hope you all have a place to get out and enjoy whatever you can! I’m happy to walk out on my deck and see the spring buds on the rhododendrons and forsythia. Our travel photographers are totally grounded so they’re all working on their latest images for us!

Good luck to everyone and thanks for your interest in our amazing photographers! We''ll feature others in the coming weeks. We are blessed to be able to work with them and see the world through their lenses!

Danita and Team

Savanah, Joseph, Tom and Dave