Ryan Jordan

Archive for the ‘Trekking’ Category

Separation Anxiety

No Separation Anxiety (Tobacco Root Mountains) Sigma DP2 Separation anxiety is what photographers get when they freak out about missing mm’s out of the focal range covered by the pounds of lenses they carry in their packs. Lightweight backpackers suffer this too, but usually only when they sit in front of their computer, shopping online. […]

Dreaming of Favorite Places

South Fork Flathead River, Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex – a favorite place. (Photo: Sigma DP2) I got a message this morning from a PR agency in San Francisco that I started my day off with a good laugh: “Now that the weather has finally warmed up for good, it’s time to head outdoors!” I had […]

Olympic Coast Sunset (1991, Nikon FM2, Fuji Velvia)

Olympic Coast Sunset Near Cape Alava, WA (Nikon FM2, Fuji Velvia, March 1991) There is something to be said about film and it’s hard to put it into words, so here’s a photo instead. I’ve never shot a sunset with digital – even with a full frame 5D – that feels “right” putting up on […]

Spring Hostility in Montana (Photo: Sigma DP2)

  Spring Hostility in Montana, Sigma DP2 (click for larger) Last weekend we took the Scout troop on their first backpacking trip of the season into the foothills of the Tobacco Root Mountains. We cooked over fires, slept under tarps, and learned the art of navigating in coulee country. It was cold, too. Twenty one […]

Wild Places Breed Humility and Unselfishness

  Big Wall Camp Escalante, UT 2004 Wilderness has a way of making you feel really small, and insignificant. It’s too bad that the natural tendencies of real people in the real world don’t tend to the same manifestations of humility. In a Wild Place, it’s pretty easy to look around and be reminded that […]