It is mid summer 2010 and  fall is just around the corner.   Zach and I  are really looking forward to our Days Afield.   We still have a few weeks until the opening of dove season here in the south; For now all we can do is reflect on all of the memories of our Days Afield we had since last fall. 

Sitting back to  reminisce about your Days Afield, you realize how truly blessed being a part of the sporting lifestyle you are.  The sporting lifestyle has not really changed much over the years. Sure we have some warmer clothes and the feel of  the new fly rods are hard to beat. But the real roots of our passion has not changed much.  Whether you are sitting on a stool dripping with sweat in the southern heat at a good old fashiong dove shoot; casting to rising fish as they sip down  flies still stuck in the surface film during the hatch; smelling the sweet wet aroma of your lab sitting next to you in the flooded timber; or chasing whatever your upland fantasy (pheasants, grouse, and /or quail ) across seemingly  endless CRP and crop fields of the Midwest, through thick coverts of the North Woods or the edges of the south where Mr. Bobwhite likes to hide, the sporting lifestyle remains timeless.  Good friends, good dogs, and the great outdoors that about sums it up.      

I think I am going to have a get a new hard drive to back up my brain with all of the great memories I have had over the last year.  After the opening of dove season Zach and I making the pilgrimage to pheasant mecca with the crew from Wildrose.  The images from that trip alone made the entire fall. Thank you  Bill Behnke for the invite and your hospitality we can not wait until October to have a repeat performance .  Late winter found Zach and I in Mississippi at BuckLake Outfitters, for the final weekend of duck season.  Frank Whaley and Maggie shared the blind with us for the coldest days Mississippi had in recent history. Rain, ice, snow, wind it could not been any more ducky kind of weather.  The cold got me ready for a huge trip to the Iditarod with GCI, Bill Behnke  and Ghillie (everyones favorite retriever) that was the highlight of the entire year if not my life.  My first trip to the Alaska and for "The  Last Great Race on Earth" that one is going to be hard to top.  Bill had promised that he was going to bring Days Afield Photography to another dimension.   He lived up to his promise.  Shortly after the Alaska adventure we headed to Wildrose Kennels for their spring retriever handlers seminar.  The largest group of handlers and dogs I have seen in six years came to participate.  This spring found Days Afield Photography at  the Ledges on the Wautaga and the South Holston rivers of East Tennessee  with the Trout Unlimited Coldwater Conservation Fund.  A week of casting to the browns and  bo's of  two world class fisheries.  An excellent trip with a group of conservation minded throwers of the fly. Thanks to Matt Braughler and Bruce Elliston for having me come up and chronicle the trip , always love the week up there.

We have added something new to our offerings at Days Afield.  Capturing images of your Days Afield  is what we do best and now  we are bumping it up a notch with coffee table books of your Day or Days Afield.   These books are an unbelievable reminder of time spent living the sporting life.   I have completed about a dozen of them , the quality  of them still blows my mind.  These are full color, large books (@15x11), full color dust jacket, and extra thick paper stock which make for a coffee table book that is exactly like one you would find at the book store.  

Days Afield Photography was very thankful to our editorial clients for the continued support this year.    Retriever Journal, Pointing Dog Journal, Just Labs, Pheasants Forever, Trout Unlimited and Quail Forever thank you so much for all of the coverage of my images (photo essays, covers, photography tip interviews).  Ducks Unlimited for using more of my images this year.  You all really helped make for a great year.

We want to welcome and thank some new editorial clients as well .  The Ruffed Grouse Society with a new look to their magazine which is awesome.  Quail Unlimited magazine for calling me to ask if I would like to contribute to their revamped and equally as awesome new and improved magazine.  Wildlife in North Carolina an award winning state nature magazine, which featured our images in a story on the economic impact of trout fishing  in North Carolina.

A big thanks to some of the more corporate clients for using my images as well.  The Orvis Company was really  good to us with images in the Spring and Summer Fly Fishing Catalogues and the Fall Hunting Book.  Wildrose Kennel and Wildrose Trading Company for their friendship and continued support. GCI for bringing us to Alaska for the Iditarod.  Sunshine Mills for using our images in promotional pieces for Sportsmans Pride Dog food and new website's useage of my images.

Please go to the client/agencies galleries and give them your support.  If you are not subscribers, members or familar with any of them check them out .