I just posted my first article in the Nature of Nature Photography under my News & Views. It will also appear in Rob Sheppard's blog "nature and photography.com. " Rob is former senior editor for Outdoor Photographer Magazine and is the author/photographer of more than 30 books. Rob served as my boss at OP for several years and like me, Rob is a naturalist first, photographer second. We hope to get folks excited not only about photographing nature, but also learning about nature as well.

 

Be sure to check out my profile of nature photographer Joe Rossbach in the July issue of Outdoor Photographer Magazine.  This is my 27th article for the magazine.  My next  OP article will be a profile of nature photographer Wil Hershberger.

 

I just completed a photo-essay for the fall issue of Currents, the publication of the North American Nature Photography Association. The article describes some of my favorite locations to photograph an Appalachian Spring in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. 

 

On July 7, Carson and I were  guest speakers at the Dorchester County Historical Society in Cambridge Maryland. We also be dida book signing after the program and had dinner at the Suicide Bridge Restaurant – one of Carson’s favorite places to eat on the Eastern Shore. After that, we spent more than two hours exploring the backroads surrounding Blackwater National Widlife Refuge!  We didn't get back to the hotel until nearly midnight. Carson saw red foxes, sika deer, and fowler's toads, and he was amused by the calling of the green tree frogs on Hooper's Island.