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The Northern Lights, or aurora borealis, sometimes looked like a green tornado rising from the horizon at Blachford Lake Lodge in Canada's Northwest Territories, about an hour's flight from Yellowknife. I used a fisheye lens for a wider perspective, which also curved the horizon.

I picked up a film camera when I was in my early teens and have put it down only once - In 2003 when I replaced it with a digital camera. Nature photography has been my passion from the beginning, but my portfolio has expanded over the years to include travel, street photography and blues music. As a travel journalist, now retired from the Chicago Tribune but still trekking on a freelance basis, I have photographed in more than 60 countries on all seven continents. I admit to a love affair with the American West and Southwest and now live in the red-rock country of southwest Utah. But, Antarctica without question, is the most amazing place I've ever photographed. Having spent a fair amount of pleasant times under darkroom safelights,...