We're excited to announce that Liam Doran, an adventure photographer based in Colorado, has joined the ThinkTank Pro Team!  Much of Liam's work takes place deep in the backcountry where skills beyond the photographic are called in to play. His photography is genuine and all images are from a single shot. He eschews the modern practice of composites or sky swapping, instead relying on getting up early and staying out late to find the light that tells the story. Liam's favorite weather to shoot is a breaking storm where the elements combine for unique and dramatic images.  For his adventures...

Getting out to experience new and unfamiliar places has always be an important part of life for Kelly and I. Between COVID changing how the world operated, to our wedding being postponed from April 2020 to April 2022, the yearning to wander further than a few hours from home grew more and more as time passed.  So, when one of our good friends offered to let us borrow his van as a wedding gift, we immediately started planning a trip. Kelly and I had never experienced van life, but we knew this would be the perfect opportunity to dip our...

Our friend, Therese Iknoian from Hi Travel Tales, recently returned from a trip to Rapa Nui (Easter Island). She brought the new FirstLight 35L+ backpack with her and wrote this piece about what it's like to venture to one of the most remote corners of our planet. Rapa Nui: adventure to the most isolated place in the world by Therese Iknoian Does your bucket list include a trip to Rapa Nui a.k.a. Easter Island, as so many do? Mine surprisingly didn’t, not really. But when the opportunity came up to head to this remote island off the coast of South...

Photographers know all about bucket-list items. We use our cameras like a passport into the world, driving us to achieve that rare and unique capture of a landscape, animal or night sky. Even with all I have already witnessed, I still have many on my own, very lengthy bucket list. Photograph polar bears in Svalbard, get down low in the sand with penguins in Antarctica, play in snowy conditions with muskox in Alaska, admire the beauty of giraffes in Africa, document the misty scenes of rutting elk in a rainforest, and capture the spring beauty of the Palouse are just...