OWAA OUTDOOR VOICES

Use Your Outdoor Voices


  • On assignment with Peter Frick-Wright

    On assignment with Peter Frick-Wright

    Peter Frick-Wright has nearly been in the wrong place at the wrong time on more than one occasion.


  • Make new media that makes money

    Make new media that makes money

    We all know the story: newspapers are dying and working as a reporter is one of the worst jobs on every career list. At the same time, millennials are starting more businesses at younger ages than their Baby Boomer counterparts.


  • Using Instagram for instant career success

    Using Instagram for instant career success

    For awhile, I resisted joining Instagram. My climbing partner insisted I check it out, saying it might help me in my recent foray into climbing photography, but I wasn’t big into social media. I didn’t get it.


  • Draw viewers in with anthropomorphic photos

    Draw viewers in with anthropomorphic photos

    Perhaps you recall exchanges with Looney Tune characters Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig in which the delineation between human and cartoon was blurred or even nonexistent. Who can forget the image of the tin man, cowardly lion and scarecrow skipping arm-in-arm with Dorothy down the yellow brick road toward Oz?


  • Shooting shot shelling

    Shooting shot shelling

    A photo of a person shooting a shotgun into the sky looks pretty boring unless there is smoke and fire coming out of the barrel, or perhaps a shell caught in flight after it was ejected out of the shotgun.


  • Make tax season less painful

    Make tax season less painful

    The beginning of a new year signifies the start of our resolutions to better ourselves. It also begins the three-and-a-half-month scramble to dig up all of our receipts, crunch the numbers and file our income tax returns on time.


  • Get involved to change OWAA

    Get involved to change OWAA

    Criticism is only annoying when it goes unreported.


  • Letters to the Editor

    Letters to the Editor

    Keep writing outdoor essays…


  • Hearing aids designed for the outdoor life

    Hearing aids designed for the outdoor life

    It was the sound of birds, or the absence of it, I noticed most.


  • Welcome to OWAA

    Welcome to OWAA

    Welcome to Rachel Cramer, Mark Kaufman, Andy Long and Skip Stover.


  • Bookshelf

    Bookshelf

    The Adventures of Bubba Jones: Time Traveling Through Shenandoah National Park (A National Park Series Book)…


  • Richard Smith wins Michigan Outdoor Writers Association award

    Richard Smith wins Michigan Outdoor Writers Association award

    Richard Smith wins Michigan Outdoor Writers Association award


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