Welcome to Alan Bauer Photography, specializing in coverage of the natural history of the great Pacific Northwest.  I strongly believe that no subject of nature, from a great bull elk in the fall rut all the way down to a small patch of macro-lichen, is worthy of any potentially disrupting or damaging action for the purpose of "getting the photograph".  I have many times turned my back from a potentially spectacular photographic opportunity for this very reason: I value letting my memory appreciate something from our natural world just as much as I do in capturing it on film!