Photographed near a wetland when I was doing Waterfowl Surveys for the USFWS.

Image depicts a common whitetail dragonfly, Plathemis lydia

Taken With: Canon 30D

I took a summer job at Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge near Pingree, ND doing belt transect work for the USFWS. It was a great job and I learned so much about the prairie ecosystem! Arrowwood setup a blind near some grouse mating areas, and it was open to the public. I went there with some coworkers a few times and got some great pictures, like this one. It was a bad crop, but I just didn’t have a long enough lens at the time.

Taken with: Canon 30D

The Lake Tuende at the Desert Studies Center attracted lots of waterfowl. There wasn’t much water around (probably within 100mi), so quite a few of interesting birds ended up at the preserve.

Another image taken at the Desert Studies Center. I took a ton of pictures when I was there because I had just gotten myself the professional camera. A brand new Canon 30D.

These sheep were really hard to spot, and rarely came within viewing distance. I felt special getting to see them a couple times during the few months I was at Zzyzx.

A collard lizard sitting on a rock in the Mojave desert. Taken near Zzyzx, CA.

While out with Jason on our lizard finding quests, we came across a rarer to find specimen. We kept him to take pictures of the next day, but the skin darkened to a point where it was not really photographable. The air temperature was too low in house for it, so we released it onto a sunny rock. It was quite happy to have some heat again. Lovely specimen.

Sometimes the camera will not autofocus where you want it to, but just because the image is out of focus, or the subject isn’t in the focal plane, you can get an interesting picture. I really like this one because I see this type of thing quite often in my life. My dogs love to come and lick or jump up at my face. Woof.

I’ve had many dogs in my life, and here is Brutus looking regal. Captured in Snowflake, AZ where I used to live.

Great Danes are just floppy beasts. Here is my goofy boy running towards me.

My dog Kira, named after the Deep Space Nine major. Taken with an Elan 7 and 50mm Sigma Macro lens.