A female trico taken on Silver Creek this morning with smoky light…
Fly Fishing Guide Portraits
Keko, pictured below, was my guide on my first trip to Cuba about 9 or so years ago. He was also my guide on my recent trip back to Cuba in May. I was part of the second group he had guided this May after 14 plus months of zero work due to Covid.
To say life for him and his colleagues during Covid was a challenge is an understatement. With essentially no income he shot birds using small allotments of time he was allowed outside of the house. Family and neighbors shared and pooled what little they had to eat…
“Things have been very very difficult,” Keko told me one night on my trip. He wasn’t asking for sympathy. I had asked what it was like going jobless for over a year. He was guarded and I knew that. Too much disclosure can lead to jail time.
I hope that guiding for him offers some relief both financially and psychologically. Unfortunately, Cuba is still on a tight lockdown and he’s undoubtedly not able to guide much until Cuba gets vaccines. The Cuban people want them and need them but are not yet readily available.
Keko
Keko’s Hand
Landscape Photography
Here’s a new black and white image taken recently of the Sawtooths during a much needed rain squall. It’s available as a fine art print. Email: nickpricephotography@gmail.com for inquiries.
Sawtooths and Squall. Idaho 2021
The Drake Magazine
New work in the spring (current) issue of The Drake. Also included is a featured photo essay on a Baja camping trip. Go grab a copy…
Catch Magazine
New work and the cover in the most recent issue of CATCH MAGAZINE.
Jardines de La Reina, Cuba
Caribbean reef sharks and silky sharks. Jardines de La Reina, Cuba.
Fly Fish Guanaja, Honduras
The best part of travel for me is interacting with those who live where I visit. On a recent trip to the Bay Island of Guanaja in Honduras I was able to do that for the first time in a year. Cody Catherall, Scott Fergusen, and I walked a few blocks into Mangrove Bight with a couple of fly rods knowing there are some pretty good sized tarpon under the docks. Instead of tarpon we ran into some great kids and spent an evening casting and laughing with them.
For those interested in a future saltwater destination, Guanaja is an incredible place and I’ll be hosting trips there in 2022. Feel free to reach out for info. Here’s the link to Fly Fish Guanaja.
Coconut Palms. Costa Rica
Manzanillo, Costa Rica. From a recent trip to Honduras and Costa Rica.
Coconut Palms and Sky. Costa Rica
Guanaja, Honduras Landscapes
Below are a couple of new landscape images I recently took on a trip to Guanaja, Honduras. It’s generally a given it’s going to rain at some point and I’ve been fascinated with the texture of the Caribbean during a squall.
Guanaja, Honduras and Rain.
Black Rock, Turtle Grass, and Rain.
An eel plies the Guanaja shoreline.
Anglers Journal
Excited to have work in the new issue of Anglers Journal. Two features. One on portraits of fly fishing guides from New Zealand, Argentina, and Chile to Honduras, Cuba, the Bahamas and others. The other is on a handliner in Baja, Mexico I came across last December while camping on a remote beach for a week.
The FlyFish Journal
Excited to have written a feature in the new issue of The FlyFish Journal on the mouse year phenomenon in New Zealand. Last year was a special year given the fact it was a mega mast and the size of some of the trout—most notably on the South Island—was jaw dropping. What’s a mega mast? Read it to find out!
Will Price crosses a South Island backcountry river.
Abstract Photography
Wave and Beach From Above. Abstract.
Salmon River Ice Flow
Salmon River and ice. February, 2021. This is available as a print either on fine art paper or on metal. Email Nick for inquiries.
Salmon River Ice Flow
Winter Run Steelhead
A nice winter run steelhead from a recent trip to the Oregon coast.
Big Wood River
A rainbow release shot from a few days ago on the Big Wood River, Idaho. The water doesn’t appear as cold as it is…
Idaho Falconry
Spent the day yesterday with a falconer and his gyrfalcon. It was an absolutely stunning yet frigid day and ended successfully with a mallard to the hand.
Silver Creek. Winter
Silver Creek and Fog. Winter
Falconry
A few recent images from a morning with a local falconer… Hopefully more to come.
Sun Valley Magazine--Winter 2021
The FlyFish Journal 12.2
New work in issue 12.2 of The FlyFish Journal in a feature about the Junin de los Andes area of Argentina by Fred Melton. Check out the new issue to see the entire piece.
Diego Gonzalez del Solar with the second flat of the day on a pretty remote dirt road not too far from Alumine, Argentina. It was a stunning evening and the mood was high and nobody was really that bummed—the spare, useless, was flacid in the back of the car— and we laughed a bit and kicked small rocks around not long before a 10:30 pm sunset. Within 15 minutes or so, a wildly short duration, a bus was headed our direction and Diego waved it to a stop. It was taking laborers from Junin back to their village after a day’s work. They let us on and the driver rallied the bus like a Baja 1,000 driver and a woman with short dark hair sitting up front with a thermos of hot water between her legs passed around matte and chatted with the driver. The bus was sparsely occupied and the faces were pleasant but fatigued. An hour passed and the bus stopped at our place along the Alumine River…
Woman with matte on a bus near Alumine, Argentina.