Our project with the French Canopy Raft Program brought us into contact with great wildlife. We enjoyed seeing cryptic animals living on moss and lichen covered tree trunks and branches. Frogs and crabs inhabited water filled tree holes. Geckos and snakes moved about the lower, mid, upper, and emergent canopy layers. The good fortune of being able to visit such an undisturbed forest tract is something Mark, Jim, and I were thrilled with. As with all of my images posted here, they are for your enjoyment and are not public domain, all are copyrighted.  Please do not copy, download, post online, or reuse in any fashion the photographs that I have posted without express written permission to do so.  Any use of my images must be approved in writing.  To access the images I have posted, you must click on the subject heading link above.  By doing so, your action serves as legal recognition of my stated copyright restrictions, it signifies your willingness to use the images only after written permission is provided, and it acknowledges that failure to follow the rules is a violation of international copyright law.  Thank you for your cooperation.   Read the rest of the entry...

I was fortunate to have been able to participate in the French Canopy Raft Program (Radeau de Cimes) when it visited the Masoala Peninsula of Madagascar.  The Masoala Peninsula is Madagascar’s last large tract of eastern coastal rainforest.  Because of the remote nature of the locality, much about the local wildlife is unknown.  Two distinct forest types exist in the region where we worked: lowland coastal rainforest and montane rainforest, which carpets the steep slopes of the mountains surrounding the lowlands.  The beaches are beautiful and the vistas from the treetops on the mountainsides are breathtaking.  As with all of my images posted here, they are for your enjoyment and are not public domain, all are copyrighted.  Please do not copy, download, post online, or reuse in any fashion the photographs that I have posted without express written permission to do so.  Any use of my images must be approved in writing.  To access the images I have posted, you must click on the subject heading link above.  By doing so, your action serves as legal recognition of my stated copyright restrictions, it signifies your willingness to use the images only after written permission is provided, and it acknowledges that failure ...  Read the rest of the entry...

Working on a number of projects, I’ve been given the opportunity to photograph some unusual Amazonian aquatic wildlife over the past few years. I’d like to thank Ornamental Fish Inc., FL, USA and I. and E. Zimerman of River Wonders, CA, USA for allowing me the opportunities to shoot some of the fish involved.  In particular, the deep water wildlife has been spectacular.    As with all of my images posted here, they are for your enjoyment and are not public domain, all are copyrighted.  Please do not copy, download, post online, or reuse in any fashion the photographs that I have posted without express written permission to do so.  Any use of my images must be approved in writing.  To access the images I have posted, you must click on the subject heading link above.  By doing so, your action serves as legal recognition of my stated copyright restrictions, it signifies your willingness to use the images only after written permission is provided, and it acknowledges that failure to follow the rules is a violation of international copyright law.  Thank you for your cooperation.   Read the rest of the entry...

Since 2000, I’ve been fortunate to have been able to work with US Fish and Wildlife agents, state wildlife officials, as well as research biologists and visit a number of caves in North America with interesting subterranean wildlife.  Of all of my field work, many of the questions I have emailed to me revolve around subterranean wildlife.  So I thought I’d start the blog with a few short comments and a number of related images to North American subterranean biodiversity.  As with all of my images posted here, they are for your enjoyment and are not public domain, all are copyrighted.  Please do not copy, download, post online, or reuse in any fashion the photographs that I have posted without express written permission to do so.  Any use of my images must be approved in writing.  To access the images I have posted, you must click on the subject heading link above.  By doing so, your action serves as legal recognition of my stated copyright restrictions, it signifies your willingness to use the images only after written permission is provided, and it acknowledges that failure to follow the rules is a violation of international copyright law.  Thank you for your ...  Read the rest of the entry...