PHOTOGRAPHER | FILMMAKER | WRITER

I tell stories

As a freelance photographer, filmmaker, and writer, I work with outdoor brands, guiding outfitters, non-profits, and publications to produce digital media content and tell engaging stories.

Because of my background in outdoor sports and international travel, I specialize in location shoots that are tough for many photographers and videographers to reach. I am ready to take my camera anywhere, whether it's a remote river canyon, steep couloir, or an urban street.

I am available for hire, so please get in touch!

Instagram: @d_spiegel

Here’s a still image from yesterday’s brief flight over the foliage. Does anyone have favorite fall foliage spots I should check out in the coming weeks in New England? •
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#drone #nature #fallfoliage #treesofinstagram #trees #newengland #massachusetts #westernmass #leafpeeping #fall #naturephoto #aerialphotography #dronephoto #mavicpro2 # #autumn #igersnewengland #igersboton #boston #bostonusa

From early September: portrait of a female Roosevelt Elk in the White River Valley, WA. A7riii and 600 f/4 •
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#wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #sonyalpha #a7riii #elk #ourwild #earth #naturephoto #wildlifeconservation #mtrainier #pnw #pacificnorthwest #pnwonderland

I’m not shooting much wildlife for the next few weeks, so it’s time to share some oldies. •
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This one is from about a year and a half ago. This beating booby lifted up to show us its two eggs. Only one of these eggs will make it. In most years, the pair of boobies only has enough energy to feed and raise one chick at a time. Even if both eggs hatch, the stronger chick (usually the first to hatch) will outcompete its sibling for food. The weaker chick will starve and die. The second egg is basically just insurance.
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#galapagos #bluefootedbooby #birding #birds #wildlifephotography #naturephoto #travel #lindbladexpeditions @lindbladexp #birdnest #galapagos_islands #natgeo #wildlife #outinnature #naturewalk

Wildlife watching at the Port of LA. Saw so many beautiful birds making their living around the port. Also saw a bunch of dolphins right outside the breakwater. Nature is everywhere! Heading back to Boston today. •
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#birding #wildlifephotography #birds #ocean #lindbladexpeditions @lindbladexp #travel #nature #urbanwildlife

Beautiful sunrise view this morning at the port of LA.

Hard to believe this was more than seven years ago! I went through a few old hard drives the other day to see what images got “left behind.” I wasn’t as willing to crop in post processing back then, and so I didn’t really think much of a lot of the photos from this great polar bear encounter. With a big crop and the latest Lightroom sliders, I’m glad I pulled this one out of the black hole of old hard drives! •
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#polarbear #lindbladexpeditions @lindbladexp #svalbard #bear #wildlifephotography #arctic #ice #nature #wildearth #earth #climate #wildlife #wildanimal

Another one from last weekend: a fiddler crab emerging from its burrow on Cape Cod. •
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#fifdlercrab #capecod #wildlifephotography #a7riv #sonyalpha #wildanimals #nature #naturephotography

From the weekend: Orange Meadowhawk dragonfly in front of a dark windowpane. •
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#dragonfly #macro #a7riv #sonyalpha #megapixels #macrophoto #insects #orangemeadowhawk #nature #capecod

August 28, 2019: zoomed-in view and blue hues at Lamplugh Glacier in @glacierbaynps. •
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#glacier #alaska #lindbladexpeditions @lindbladexp #nationalpark #ourparks #ourwild #uspubliclands #travelphotography #landscapephotography #sonyalpha #a7riii #sigma @sigmaphoto

Here’s another one from the last Alaska trip. Check out that baleen! I got a great look straight into the mouth of a a humpback whale when it lunged near the surface to take a big gulp of herring. •
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What do you think, is time to move on from Alaska photos or should I share a few more? I’ll be slowing down on photography for the next 11 weeks until I head out for the next adventure in the Antarctic. •
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#humpbackwhale #whale #lindbladexpeditions @lindbladexp #ocean #wildlife #wildlifephotography #5dmarkiv

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Recent Work:

Protecting Sanjianggyuan: A marketing and conservation advocacy film for Last Descents River Expeditions, produced in Qinghai, China. Guests with Last Descents experience the Daqu River on the Tibet Plateau. As the headwaters of the Mekong, the Daqu is also the site of Chinas first centrally managed and recognized national park. Through the lens of this river trip, guests consider how to manage the park for conservation.

The Boatman: Derik Spice, a river guide and trip leader for Arizona Rafting Adventures, spends over 140 days per year in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, which gives him a unique incentive to preserve the canyon he calls home.