Michael Kodas & High Crimes on Mt. Everest

Photo Courtesy Michael Codas via ESPN Outdoors

There was a great story last week about photojournalist Michael Kodas and his experiences climbing Mt. Everest.

"People are going to these peaks with a badly skewed view of what it's going to entail," said Kodas on NPR's Salt Lake City affiliate station, KUER. "They have no idea at all about the cultural and social challenges as well."

Kodas is a 25-year veteran at the Hartford-Courant, and was a member of the team of photographers that won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the massacre of four employees of the Connecticut lottery by a disgruntled employee in 1999.

KUER Radio Interview with Doug Fabrizio

Michael Kodas Photographs at Mt. Everest

High Crimes at Amazon

EAT MORE HAM ! ! !

I don't even know what this is about.

But it's awesome.

Trapped Beauty

Willard Bay State Park, Northern Utah

After I finished an assignment yesterday, I wanted to spend some time wandering along the beaches of Willard Bay. It's quite a beautiful place, but most of its eastern coastline remains protected by a daunting barbed wire fence.

Gorilla in the Grass

Halloween Love in a Shower Curtain

Happy Halloween!

Saved From Archive Oblivion

A photo pal helped me go through some frames tonight, and tried to help me organize my work in a way that makes sense. I had never once thought of this photograph after shooting it, but she had remembered it.

Made me realize how easy it is to totally lose a photograph into the archive forever, instead of realizing that it may actually fit into a larger body of work.