ANWR

Beside my chair in the den, on the lower level of a mission style end table, you will find a stack of books. Mostly you will find they are photography books. These are not the how to books but the collections of photographs from the files of different photographers. Reading the titles you will find names like Through the Lens and In Focus from National Geographic and America 24/7 and finally a notebook with a few of my shots from the my trek to Yosemite in 2004...my personal portfolio.

These are the inspiration books.

Yesterday I received a book that will join this collection. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land by Subhankar Banjerjee. I'll not bore you by retelling the story. You can read more about the book on Amazon.

I spent about an hour with the book last night. I've never been to Alaska. I hope to go some day, but even then I'll probably not make the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. And I've heard that photographs do not really do justice the beauty of what you experience in Alaska.

If that is the case, that photographs do not do justice to the land, then my thought after looking at some of Banjerjee's images is....

Why would anyone think it is OK to drill for oil here?

I just don't get it.