Up North: Pinto Abalone Outplanting in the San Juan Islands
The morning of April 12 was cold and flat gray, the kind of morning snooze buttons and steaming cups of coffee were invented for. Instead, I found myself squinting through a steady sideways drizzle down the fuel dock of the Port of Anacortes, Washington with a backpack full of cameras.
Into the Wild: Exhibit Creation with the Aquarium of the Pacific
On the second floor balcony of the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, there’s a blank white wall twenty-five feet long. It’s about to be filled with larger-than-life images of marine snails to tell the story I’ve been documenting for over a year - in which tiny abalone are bred in labs to fulfill their destiny in the wild ocean.