A wall of rain made it nearly impossible to see the sign for the Palm Beach Bookstore just across the street as I pulled into a parking spot. I turned off the engine and picked up the copy of my new book, Wild Florida: An...
“I’ve figured it out,” announced my AirBNB hostess just outside Ocala National Forest.“Figured what out?” I asked.“This wildlife photography thing you do,” she said.She and her partner had become embroiled in my quest to photograph bears for my upcoming Wild Florida coffee table book. They’d...
I arrived at Jonathan Dickinson State Park with no real agenda. It had been the closest camping spot I could find to Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge where I intended to take pictures of sea turtles early the next morning for my forthcoming book Wild...
For me, 2019 was packed with adventures as I explored Florida beyond my southern base in pursuit of animals to photograph for my new book project with the University Press of Florida, Wild Florida: The Animals of the Sunshine State. As I continue my quest...
It all started with a polar bear just outside the compound fence. It was a large male; close enough for me to see snow piled on its nose, but only when it peeked around the assortment of steel drums between us. I was clearly on...
My heart sank at our boatman’s words, “I can’t get you any closer than that!”The backlit blob thirty-something feet above, mostly hidden by vegetation, was hardly the photograph I wanted of a Pygmy Sloth. Two plane rides and a 50-mile boat ride to see a...