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Best 23 of 2023
I recently decided to challenge myself to compile my best 23 photographs of 2023. Please enjoy this video compilation. It was a really useful...
After a personal loss…
What is it they tell you to do during times of stress? Practice mindfulness…be in the moment…notice the small things, right? This was my...
Red Wolf
This is the most critically endangered animal I have ever photographed, including the mountain gorilla. To give you some perspective, there are about 1,000...
River otters
Young river otter at daybreak… ~~ I learned a lot about river otters during my last trip. This juvie was so sweet and curious…kept...
Magic
Brace yourselves…this one is a little graphic. But, honestly? This moment was magic. And I’ll tell you why: ~ I realize this photo forces us to...
(I think) I dreamed I heard a screech owl last night…
…and this morning I keep having to resist the urge to go out and track it! (But what if I really did hear it??...
Prep!!
Before covid struck, I was working to put together a study abroad experience for students focusing on animal behavior and conservation psychology in Kenya....
Feathers
My favorite tracking story from my most recent visit to New Mexico: I saw these feathers from quite a ways off because they were...
Joyful Update!
In Kenya in 2019 I had the opportunity to spend time with a cheetah and her four young cubs over a period of a...
Owlets
“I know I am standing at the edge of a mystery in which terror is naturally and abundantly part of life, part of even...
Gray fox!!
Listen says fox it is music to run over the hills to lick dew from the leaves to nose along the edges of the...
Baby green herons and phenology
“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night and spring after winter.” ~...
Peace among wild things…and a new mystery to work on…
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life...
On seeing ghosts… (and a mystery solved)
Well, my tracking mystery is no longer so mysterious! Several days ago I stopped seeing any fox sign at all near the den that...
…and a tracking mystery
(Part 2 of 2. Read part 1 here.) “Old on an old hill alone walking bent at the edge of the woods of...
Fox history…
My earliest days as a wildlife photographer in the mid-Atlantic were spent shooting birds and the occasional raccoon, but it didn’t take me long...
Spark bird
In the world of birding, the bird species that initially piqued your interest is known as your “spark bird.” When my middling was in...
About taking the shot that’s there…
(Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, USA) I had been driving out of the refuge to get some lunch when I spotted...
Little lion feelings
(Ol Kinyei Conservancy, Maasai Mara ecosystem, Kenya) When I teach Child Psychology, I tell my students that for preschoolers it actually takes more energy...
Newspaper thieves!
Foxes take a lotta heat for stuff they don’t actually do, but there is one charge that I can’t defend them against: thievery. They...
