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At least the first half was close?

The Siena International Photo Awards has a deserved reputation for consistently showcasing breathtaking photography. And this year's winners and commended entries keep the standard up.

The Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is a paradise for wildlife and for Mac Stone’s camera. “I just fell in love with it,” said Stone, a National Geographic Explorer and photographer. Now, Stone’s work is garnering international attention as the Natural History Museum in London selected one of his photographs for its annual wildlife photographer of the […]

Hopefully, no one feels too strongly about that. We’re the University of Nebraska, not the other way around, and they’re nowhere near the northwest. We all have problems.

It’s 4 a.m. in Vesper Basin, deep in Washington’s Cascades, and I’m building a dam out of twigs. The rain started two days ago; not with a roar but rather a slow drumming, wrapping the world in fog until even the near edge of the cirque vanished. Our tarp-tent made a good effort for the first 45 hours, but now the soil is saturated, and tiny rivers are snaking under our sleeping pads. Hence the twig dam. My three tentmates and I scramble into rain pants and jackets, squinting into the misty dark as we search for sticks big enough to divert the new stream trying to establish itself right...