While I have never been very good at keeping species lists, I do enjoy photography, so I am splitting the difference and using this site as a visual record of all of the species I've been able to capture photos of (if not the longer list of those I've actually seen). In that sense, this site represents not so much nature photography as species photography. The primary criteria for inclusion on this website is that the site only contains photos which I myself have taken (ok, a handful may have been taken by my wife) and that all of them are from the wild (no pets, zoos or similar enclosures, although wildlife preserves are allowed). The majority of the photos are from the last few years, although a few older prints (ranging back as far as the late 1980's) have been included if they happen to represent the only available photographs of specfic species.

The photos are organized more-or-less taxonomically.

I am strictly an amateur photographer and the quality of the photos on the site ranges from professional quality to more-or-less out-of-focus, with everything in between. Quality was not only dependent on my own skills, but conditions and the equipment I had available at the time. Older photos are scanned from prints or slides, newer are digital; cameras and lenses vary, although all are from SLR cameras (no point-and-shoot). The digital photos have all been reduced in size for convenient web browsing. Other than cropping and resizing, minimal post-photograph editing has been performed whenever possible (the worst quality photos may have gone through contrast / brightness / level adjustments in Photoshop).

Total Species Photographed

  • Arthropods = 42
  • Birds = 211
  • Reptiles = 11
  • Mammals = 28