Issue 08

Climbing
For
Cormorants

↑ Astoria, Oregon Cormie, an ambassador double-crested cormorant that lives at the Wildlife Center of the North Coast, sports the double white crests from which her species gets its name. White crests are unique to the subspecies of double-crested cormorants that live in the Pacific Northwest and only appear during the breeding season. Double-crested cormorants in other regions of North America have black crests.

Scaling Heights to Photograph Colony Life

Words and Images by Morgan Heim

When people ask what animals I like to photograph most, I answer that my favorite things to photograph are questions. Wildlife that represents surprising relationships with nature always piques my curiosity.

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Cities of Life

Words and Images by Dr. Alex Mustard

I approach the seafan for a closer look, lured in by its outrageous golden-orange hue. The gaps between the glowing branches are so packed with delicate white, eight-armed polyps that I struggle to comprehend where they can all attach.

Chasing the Magic

Words and Images by Karen Hutton

Real conservation begins when a place stops being scenery. That realization followed me home from Zion National Park in Utah after a FUJIFILM assignment for a project called “The Great American Road Trip.” I had chosen Zion because I’d only driven through it once before, during the national park closures, and even then, I could feel something in the landscape tugging at me.

The Beginning of Madagascar, Africa

Words and Images by Daniel J. Cox

Visiting Madagascar is like turning back the clock. It all began over 160 million years ago when the world’s fourth-largest island began to break away from the massive, ancient supercontinent known as Gondwanaland.