New Cover Story for Outdoor Photographer Magazine

Paul Zizka and I get to collaborate from time to time, and this is one of our favourite pieces.

We’d pitched a story about methane bubbles that appear in frozen lakes nearly nine months before Outdoor Photographer came knocking with a last-minute request… They wanted the idea for a cover story but there was a caveat. They needed it in a week’s time.

While Paul curated some photos I set to work on the feature, which includes some anecdotes from Paul about photographing methane bubbles, some tips for photographers and some scientific information from Dr. Katey Walter Anthony, a professor and Aquatic Ecosystem Ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. We pulled it off and love the results!

You can read it in their Jan/Feb 2021 issue! Check it out on Outdoor Photographer Magazine. The web version is here!

Excerpt:

Towards the far end of the lake, [Zizka] stopped in his tracks, astounded. A sea of bubbles had appeared beneath his blades. The surface was smooth, yet through the ice he could see layers of bubbles trapped in the ice—a 3D work of art. Some were perfectly round, others more abstract, like wax in a lava lamp frozen in place. He’d seen these bubbles in images before but had never laid eyes on them himself.