Bald Eagle Cowboy Hat Dawn patrol on a California

Dawn patrol on a California summer day is its own thing — the surf is usually smaller and cleaner than the afternoon

framing the view through hala and ti leaves — green wall on the left

The Pickled Image shot from the water on Kauaʻi's north shore

the middle cascades

Bald Eagle Cowboy Hat Dawn patrol on a CaliforniaHomer is the small fishing town at the end of the road on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. The Kachemak Bay there draws hundreds of bald eagles each winter the population concentrates around the open water where the Homer Spit cuts into the bay, hunting fish at the ice edge. Tom catches one in mid strike, wings fully extended, talons dropped toward the water.