Essays & Stories
Visual Stories of Nature & Conservation
Narratives that weave together personal insight, photography, field experience, and thoughtful research. These stories explore the natural world through a lens of curiosity and care to highlight moments that stayed with me long after the shutter clicked.
Marine organisms possess facets of consciousness, including intelligence.
Are zoos justified by their support of education, research, and conservation?
Are invasive species really invaders? Or is their movement a natural process?
To make a great wildlife photo you need to get inside the animal's head.
Exploring the Danube Delta and its bird-life in enchanting Romania.
Can zoos justify keeping animals in captivity? Or is that beyond ethics?
Lichen: the wise old crones of the biological world, right beneath our feet.
There are few places I feel the weight of my own mortality. Africa is one.
I realized in that moment, I wasn’t the only one looking a predator in the eye.
Exploring the reintroduction of North America's megafauna to the Wild West.
One dark, Namibian night. One watering hole. And eight black rhinos.
Learning about wildlife conservation in the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
Short poems about subtle experiences and observances in nature and with wildlife.