Don Johnston

Have you ever wanted to take a photo that looks like this? Well now you can. Ontario photographer and colleague Don Johnston offers tours on tundra vehicles for photographers eager to capture images of polar bears without disturbing them. I used one of Don's grizzlies for a book cover last year, and now this beauty has appeared on the cover of Canadian Geographic. To see more of Don's incredible wildlife and nature photography -- and to learn more about polar bear expeditions -- go to www.donjohnstonphotos.com.

          

Seafood Show

Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Gail Shea tours the North American Seafood Expo, the largest seafood trade event on the continent. Boston, MA.

Blizzard Voices

In an opera aptly performed in the midst of Boston's harshest winter, soprano Deborah Selig sang of the tragic "Children's Blizzard" of 1888. 'Blizzard Voices,' with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Jordan Hall, Boston, and special thanks to baritone David Kravitz.

2014 Ozzie Winners Announced

Some of the Boston cover story submissions that won a national 2014 Best Use of Photography Ozzie mention for Oil and Gas Investor Magazine, August 2013.

 

 

 

 

 

Compassion and Choices

A poster series of 26 local leaders who support death with dignity through Compassion and Choices, a national and regional non-profit organization.

Changing Landscape

Old and new blend in Somerville, MA: Assembly Row shops, buttressing resurrected from former rail station that serviced original Ford plant, new Assembly Square MBTA station -- and three generations of energy behind it. For Image 4/Winter Hill Bank.

 

Boston Magazine Wealth Managers Issue

James McCusker & Associates of Wellesley, Katherine Horgan and Vincent Serratore of Heritage Wealth Management, Medford, and Scott Brody, Morgan Stanley of Wellesley Hills for Boston Magazine/Five Star Professional.

Fat Tuesday

Katrina transplant Charles Neville wears the quiet gaze of a master at Mardi Gras festivities, with the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble at the Regattabar, Cambridge, MA

 

In Boston: the North American Foreign Ministers Meeting

Ministers Meade and Baird from Mexico and Canada met with Secretary of State John Kerry in roundtable discussions, press conferences, and over lunch at the Union Oyster House. Minister Baird was given a tour of the JFK Library and the Hemingway Room with Library Director Tom Putnam.

 

 

Year of the Goat

Dancers soar as winter birds in flight, Chinese New Year's Celebration, Lexington, MA

Dylan Dreyer

NBC's Dylan Dreyer gave a frank account of her family's history with diabetes at the High Hopes Gala, in association with the Joslin Diabetes Center for National Diabetes Month.

Future Medicine

A panel discussion of how digital technology will impact medicine at the International Business Forum's Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit.

Beach Relic

If only the walls could talk in this 60's-era motel that would have inspired Mondrian with its many geometries and colors. Hampton Beach, NH.

Travers Stakes at Saratoga

It's a day of tradition and fashion at Saratoga Race Track: the Travers Stakes, the oldest major stakes race for thoroughbreds both equine and human. The 2014 Travers was another photo finish as 'V.E. Day' edged out 'Wicked Strong' (below) for the $1.25 million purse.

 

Swan Pond

Boston Ballet's elegant 'Swan Lake' promo shoot in the Public Garden.

 

Assignment: Oil & Gas Investor Magazine

In the hills of southwest Pennsylvania near the West Virginia border, signs of emerging and sunset industries: long, plodding coal trains, listless mill towns and gleaming office parks built around the recent surge in the gas fracking industry. Three days of nearly constant rain made shooting a challenge as I covered two oil rigs and a gas "frack pad" by truck and helicopter. Oil and Gas Investor Magazine was co-founded and illustrated by luminary National Geographic photographer Lowell Georgia, now retired. Cover Story by Steve Toon.

Boston Reconstruction

Carlos Arredondo, famous cowboy hat first responder at the Boston Marathon bombings of 2013, speaks to investment executives at Fenway Park about the City's response to the terrorists, against the backdrop of new additions to its skyline.

Eye on the Speaker

Anna Hayes, CEO of Anew Optics, delivers address at the Ophthalmology Innovation Summit in Boston, MA.

Beauty and the C's

Boston Celtics Dancers deliver chorus line charm at halftime.

Hornet flying: note the camera to the left locked on the backboard post with remote slave. Supplemental arena lighting is provided for media photographers whenever they shoot, visible as a soft flash.