My first Thailand nature photography workshops in January 2024 was a success beyond my wildest dream! Looking back, I can’t believe how many great photo opportunities we had during 10-day workshops. The highlights of this workshop were so many including super rare...
A new year is a new beginning. We can give nature a new beginning, by reducing 10% of our lawn. Lawn/turfgrass now covers more than 40 million acres, more than twice all state parks, state forest, and wildlife management areas combined. Unfortunately the area we call...
It wasn’t long ago I could hear a variety of prairie birds’ singing when I ventured out to a prairie. Lately I noticed… silence. I learned that we actually lost over 50% of prairie birds (720 million) since 1970. In fact, we lost 3 billion birds since 1970...
Please support my fundraising (12/1 – 12/31, 2022) to help the mission of the Missouri Prairie Foundation (https://moprairie.org/) that protects and restores our most threatened ecosystem, prairies/grasslands. MPF does a superb job in promoting the importance of...
As a photographer, I often ask myself why I continue pursuing certain images. It was 15 years ago when I first attempted to photograph a butterfly’s egg. It didn’t turn out well. I was so disappointed. Perhaps, I didn’t have enough knowledge of my...