Brown bear sleeping in a sedge meadow, Katmai National Park, Alaska

Katmai National Park, Alaska

Sunbather

For a day and a half it rained without stopping — no wind behind it, no gaps in it, just steady coastal Alaskan rain — and we spent almost all of it sitting in our tents.

When the sun finally got through, it came down on the sedge meadow and turned the whole thing gold, and we got out and went looking.

Down at the water we found our first close bear of the trip. It was fishing, working the shallows for salmon, and we watched it for a long time doing nothing else.

Once it had eaten its fill, it came up the bank at that unhurried bear pace, found a patch of sedge a short distance off, and lay down.

After giving it time to settle, we moved in a bit — still at a respectful distance, still far enough that nothing about us mattered to it. It was sprawled flat out in the grass with its eyes shut and its face turned up into the sun, the wind gusting through and lifting its coat, drying it out after a day and a half of being soaked through.

Nikon Z 7II · Nikkor Z 180-600mm · 600mm · f/6.3 · 1/640 sec · ISO 2000

Limited Edition Print

Available as a limited edition fine art print, produced on demand in four finishes. Full sizing and materials are on the prints page.

Editions & certificates

Sunbather is a signature image. It is released in an edition of 25 rather than 50, across every size and finish combined, at a 25% premium over the standard release price.

Each image is released as a limited edition of 50 — that's 50 pieces total, across every size and every finish combined, not 50 of each. When an edition closes, that image is retired and never offered as a print again. A few signature images are released in smaller editions.

Outside that count, I keep one Artist's Proof of each image for myself. It's occasionally available by private request, at a premium.

Every piece is numbered and comes with a matching signed and numbered Certificate of Authenticity. Paper prints are signed by hand before they ship; the face-mounted pieces travel straight from the lab to you, so the certificate carries the signature rather than the panel.

As an edition sells down, the price steps up. The earliest pieces of an edition carry the lowest price.

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Lumachrome Face-mounted to TruLife acrylic

The deepest, most luminous finish I offer. It's especially suited to backlit scenes, where the glow comes about as close to the real light as a print can get. Arrives ready to hang.

Best for: Deep color, dramatic light, anything you want to stop people in their tracks.

Chromaluxe Dye-sublimation on aluminum

The most durable finish, with color that reaches beyond what standard prints can show, so bright scenes, water, and big skies come off the panel. Arrives ready to hang.

Best for: Bright scenes, water, snow, big skies. Also the most durable option.

Supralume High-gloss canvas on aluminum composite

Canvas texture with the fine detail and deep blacks of a gloss print. Arrives ready to hang.

Best for: Texture and detail — rock, bark, forest, anything intricate.

Fine Art Paper Canson Infinity Rag Photographique, 310 gsm cotton

100% cotton rag, hand-signed, and shipped unframed for your own framer.

Best for: Quieter work, black and white, and anyone with a framer they trust.

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