It was wild, untamed music and it echoed from the hillsides and filled the valleys. It sent a queer shivering feeling along my spine. It was not a feeling of fear, you understand, but a sort of tingling, as if there was a hair on my back and it was hackling. – Alda Orton, Alaskan trapper A moon at perigee, Read More …
If anxieties were appendages, the forest floor would be buried in the corporeal masses of those shed by visitors, the trails impassable. This is what flitted through my thoughts as I trekked through the, thankfully uncluttered, woods one recent December afternoon. It had been months since I had carved out the time to aimlessly explore nature. My head felt jumbled, Read More …
Nature is full of wonders, and I never know what adventures await or what magic I will witness as I wake groggily at dawn and make my way to the pond. I may see very little, but it is always more than if I had stayed in bed. This is why, on the first Sunday in November, I found myself Read More …
From the archives. In 2015 when I was still figuring things out I very stubbornly continued to shoot in JPG. This is one bird with a lot of extremes from black to white and raw mode would have helped to prevent clipping on each end of the spectrum. Also, with this birds vivid colors, over-saturation can occur with JPG that Read More …
I spent a week in March at a Women Wildlife Filmmakers Workshop at Cocobolo Nature Reserve in Panama. Co-lead by two amazing conservation filmmakers Morgan Heim and Jenny Nichols, the workshop was a very intense week of instruction and hands on experience. For each project we paired up in groups of two. With my partner, Jordan Hoffmaster, our final project Read More …
Since I began photographing Wood Ducks in 2014 I have dreamed of a shot with a drake in nuptial plumage surrounded by ice or snow. Wood Ducks typically migrate south before the first snow falls so it’s not a common sight in upstate New York. In the spring of 2016 we had a deep freeze after the Woodies had returned Read More …
Life in the African bush is hard for prey animals and apex predators alike. Ungulates such as Zebras, Gazelles and Wildebeest are constantly wary, keeping watch to ensure they don’t fall victim as food for one of the countless predators that share their territory. Predators fight among themselves over that same region. Lions will battle to control existing prides and Read More …
“Find a fall, or cascade, or rushing rapid, anywhere upon a clear stream, and there you will surely find its complementary Ouzel, flitting about in the spray, diving in foaming eddies, whirling like a leaf among beaten foam-bells; ever vigorous and enthusiastic, yet self-contained, and neither seeking nor shunning your company.” -John Muir Meet the American Dipper (Cinclus mexicanus) of Read More …
In November 2015 I spent two weeks in Milan, Italy working in a customer integration lab. When I found myself with two days off I did what I’m certain anyone else would do. I searched online to find an inn high up in the Alps near a fast moving mountain stream. I was going to seek out the White-throated Dipper! Read More …
Listening to the harsh wind whipping outside I was grateful to be working on a project indoors. As I sat cozy and warm by the fireplace I thought there was nothing that would bring me out into that bitter cold. And then the phone rang. My friends at the local Wild Birds Unlimited had a Merlin outside that had captured Read More …
