Photographing insects is like browsing garage sales on a Sunday afternoon, except every single day you can come home with stuff that would make the appraisers on
Antiques Road Show wet their knickers. I originally started photographing live insects back in the late 1970's, using a
Nikon
FM film camera. Film and processing costs eventually forced me to abandon my pursuit, however. With the advent of digital cameras capable of images of 1 megapixels or so, I realized here was a way to enjoy my hobby again with each image virtually free. I now take 10,000 + insect photos each season. I love being out in the field, and I enjoy learning about these
amazingly complex and beautiful creatures.
There is an incredible
amount of beauty in the natural world. I've been surprised and
stunned many times after coming home and downloading the camera to
find out a spider or fly or damselfly has colors or structures I
never imagined existed in nature. It's like looking through a
microscope or telescope for the first time; you will see things you
never encounter in everyday life. I hope you enjoy the images.
Our clients include:
Academy Studios (Novato, CA)
BBC Wildlife Magazine (UK)
Buffalo Sunday News (NY)
CBS Television News Sunday Morning
Colourpoint Books (UK)
Diversitas (International)
The Dole Food Company
Duval House Publishing
Gouvernement du Québec - Ministère des Ressources naturelles, de la Faune et des Parcs
The Great Frame Up - Bartlett IL
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
Heller Nature Center, Highland Park IL Park District
Houghton - Mifflin Co.
The Humane Society of the United States
Insectes (magazine) OPIE - Office Pour Les Insectes Et Leur Evironement (France)
Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America (Houghton Mifflin,
2007)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
MITOPENCOURSEWARE
McDougal-Littell
Montana State University - Bozeman
My Tin Can Productions (UK)
The National Audubon Society |
National Science Resources Center / Smithsonian Institution
National Wildlife Federation:
Wildlife Magazine
National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Insects and Spiders & Related
Species of North America (Sterling, 2007).
Oklahoma Today Magazine
Oregon State University
College of Forestry
The Oregonian (Newspaper)
Pearson PLC (Pearson Education)
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens (Pittsburgh PA)
Riverbend Nature Works (Wichita Falls, TX)
Seventeenth Street Studios, Oakland CA
Stoneleigh Farms, Virginia
Stratford Upon Avon Butterfly Farm (UK)
The Think Tank Group, Inc. (PA)
The Toronto Star Newspaper
University of Florida Featured Creatures
U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
U.S. News and World Report |
A number of our photographs are featured on the Tree of Life Web Project.
For permission, licensing or reproduction rights email:
GAGA or call us at 630-830-8850 from 10:00 a.m. to 7 p.m. central time,
Tuesday through Friday.
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is
beautiful without having to believe there are fairies at the bottom of it
too?" --
Richard Dawkins |
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