Idaho

Put on your swim trunks or bathing suit, turn your thermostat up to 100 F (38 C) and listen to my latest blog post on making Soak, The Soothing Sound of Idaho Hot Springs, featuring the soundscape of Pine Flats Hot Springs along the South Fork of the Payette River in south-central Idaho. Recorded in April 2021, the 55:42 album transports you down a 100-foot jagged algae-covered cliff to the source of the springs, where hydrothermal water comes from the underworld at 138 F (59 C), onto a relaxing and comfortable waterfall-fed soaking pool, then finally to Class II rapids along the blue-green river.… Read More

How I turned a vintage plastic file box … into a DIY SASS microphone housing for plug-in-power (PIP) microphones. Why have one DIY SASS microphone rig when you can have two? I came across a vintage brown plastic file box … Read More

In April 1997 Life Magazine’s Director of Photography David Friend called out of the blue asking me to photograph comet Hale-Bopp, which at the time was streaking through the sky above sparsely populated Wyoming, where I had lived and worked … Read More

Join me as I spend a cold April night under a full moon in the wide-open sagebrush steppe of southwestern Idaho. Listen to the bizarre sounds of male Greater sage grouse performing their annual courtship displays on ancestral mating grounds … Read More

Drum. Drum. Drum. For several mornings earlier this month, that sound is all I heard. A Downy woodpecker was using a cottonwood tree I walk past on my route to see the morning newspaper as its sounding board. The woodpecker … Read More