I spent this past weekend at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, a preserve on Assateague Island off the coast of Virginia, just south of the Maryland-Virginia state border.  Chincoteague is one of my favorite places to photograph wildlife because of its wide variety of approachable subjects, so I try to make at least one trip there each [...]

I have today off from work so this morning I visited my favorite local duck pond again with the goal of photographing Mallards, Canada Geese, and Ring-billed Gulls, regulars that can be expected there every day this time of year.  When I arrived, all of the Mallards were resting near shore and there were only three [...]

I just got back from Lycoming County, PA where I spent the weekend herping with Chris and several friends.  Combined, we found over 300 herps on Saturday and Sunday, including three lifers for me, Spring Salamander, Mountain Dusky Salamander, and Redbelly Snake.  I also found the only Northern Water Snake of the trip, a baby [...]

Yesterday, Chris and I met up with some friends we met through a herping forum and tried our hand at herping in some of the most miserable May weather conditions.  We had planned to find some new snakes - in particular Timber Rattlesnakes, Copperheads, Milk Snakes, and Eastern Hognose Snakes - to photograph, but the [...]

Earlier this week, Chris drove up to New Jersey in order to see me graduate today.  So yesterday we made a trip to a local state park to do a little herping.  Combined we found 25 Two-lined Salamanders, 18 Redback Salamanders, 5 Northern Dusky Salamanders, and 5 Pickerel Frogs (and also a shrew).  I had [...]

Monday night I had the opportunity to photograph another fox den, one discovered in Delaware by my friend Kim Steininger.  I left New Jersey after school and arrived at the den around 5:30PM, a little later than I had hoped, but still plenty of time to get some photos before sunset.  Fortunately, the kits were [...]

Yesterday, I met up with a friend to do some herping in a favorite nature preserve of his in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.  We didn’t find any unusual species, but stumbled across quite a few Northern Dusky Salamanders, Redback Salamanders, Northern Two-lined Salamanders, and Green Frogs.  We also found a half-eaten flying squirrel, wood frog tadpoles, and a [...]

I had planned to stay in and work on my website for most of today, but the calm, bright overcast weather was too good not to take advantage of, so I decided to stop by Washington Crossing State Park for a couple of hours to see if I could find anything to photograph.  I ended up [...]

Every April I look forward to finding and photographing Red Foxes.  Fortunately, for the past two years a couple of photographer friends have been a huge help in showing me dens that they have found or have been told about.  Somehow though, I never seem to get lucky when I visit them, and usually spend [...]

Here’s another shot from my visit to Shenandoah National Park last weekend.  This photograph is quite different from my first post, as it was taken at a higher elevation from deeper within the park, where the new spring growth has yet to really pop.  What I like about this image is that it shows the transition [...]