Shane Srogi Photography

“Broken Mountain” - It was a Sunday morning, and I was sleeping in. I awoke with a start to the loudest sonic boom I’ve ever heard. The eruption of Mount St. Helens has lived in my head rent-free ever since. Sound travels in weird ways. Some people, just a ridge or two away, heard nothing.

My first visit to the mountain was last year, when I led a 3-day workshop for Nikon at Spirit Lake at sunset.

In a teachable moment and to do the experience justice, I created an HDR-Pano from 90 images, resulting in a 14k photograph so detailed you can see the monitoring equipment on the slope.

Nikon Z6III + Nikkor Z 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 VR S lens

On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens changed the landscape of the Pacific Northwest forever.

57 people died that day, including USGS volcanologist David Johnston, “Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!” was his warning.

A massive 5.1 magnitude earthquake triggered the largest landslide in recorded history, taking out the volcano’s entire north face. Seconds later, a lateral blast ripped through the forest at speeds up to 670 mph, leveling 230 square miles of old-growth trees.

The eruption sent a column of ash 15 miles into the sky, blanketing nearby states in darkness and shifting global weather patterns. Rivers turned into raging mudflows (lahars) that swept away homes, bridges, and highways.

Today, the landscape remains a powerful living laboratory, showing the incredible resilience of nature as life slowly returns to the blast zone.

Santa Fe New Mexico

The Wall Street Journal - A2 Oct 16/17 2025

Juniper, a rescued Coastal Alaskan Brown Bear, has a big case of the sleepies. She’s entering a state of Torpor, which is not true hibernation. It is triggered by food scarcity and affects brown and black bears in the interior, which have mostly vegetarian diets.

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Shot on Nikon Z6III + Nikkor Z 100-400mm f/4-6.3 VR S

Location Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle

Wolves

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Nikon Z6III + Nikkor Z 100-400mm f/4-6.3

I’ve been digging down into my 2025 images and found this shot by Vincent Versace. We were telling lies and smoking ci**rs in his studio when, like manna from heaven, a Nikkor Z 85mm f/1.2 S lens showed up at his door. So we grabbed a Z6III and started shooting.

Nikon Z6III + Nikkor Z 85mm f/1.2 S lens.

World Mountain Day

Mount Saint Helens
La Sal Mountains
Mount Rainier

Nikon Z6III - Z7II - Z7II

Live: Skagit County residents told to evacuate immediately "Catastrophic" flooding is expected to hit parts of Skagit, Snohomish and King counties as rivers swell and the region is drenched in rain.

Big Cats at The Palm Beach Zoo

Shot on Nikon

I got picked up in Le Dauphine Libere, Le Republicain Lorrain, Le JSL, Le Bien Public, DNA, Vosges Matin - France

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Shot on Nikon Z 6III

Weekly Beasts - Italy’s Il Post

The second photo in Sept 26th Weekly Beasts. I covered this for World Gorilla Day at the

Nikon Z6III + Nikkor Z 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 VR S Lens

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