To start, let me tell you a bit about my background. I grew up in Wisconsin and spent countless days in the outdoors where my dad taught me the appreciation of nature that I hold so dear today. I love the natural world so much I decided to make it my career. I hold undergraduate and graduate degrees in Wildlife Ecology and Biology and have worked as a professional wildlife biologist for 3 states over the past 30 years. I currently reside in Florida where wildlife photo opportunities abound.  My special interest is birds.  I love studying their behaviors and creating images with them as the subject.

I also am a licensed and insured boat captain with over 20 years experience.

Along with my interest in nature and birds came an interest in preservation, thus my choice of profession. However, I also love to preserve nature and birds in pictures; thus, my interest in photography. I have been a photographer for a long time, but digital photography opened a whole new world of nature photography.

All of my photographs are of wild birds.  To me, part of photographing nature is capturing it as it occurs "naturally," as if I were not there.  So, I go to great lengths to infringe as little as possible on the animals I am creating images of.  Just check out my camouflaged pontoon boat for an example.

I love dynamic images and have a special passion for capturing birds in flight.

I hope you enjoy exploring the site and all the images it contains. If you are interested in taking some awesome images of your own and would like to book a tour or an instructional outing, I am sure I can help you achieve your goals.

Thanks and enjoy! 

Ron