IUCN Conservation Status: INSUFFICIENT DATA I was startled by this large grasshopper Green-Legged Grasshopper – Behind the Photo Whenever I’m out for a hike, I try to keep my camera with me and in easy access. That is the start of the story of how I took this photo of a green-legged grasshopper. Jill and […]
IUCN Conservation Status: LEAST CONCERN This grooved brain coral is from the Dominican Republic This photo of a grooved brain coral is one of my favorite underwater photos that I have ever taken. I took this this photo while diving on the Morales shipwreck in the Dominican Republic off the coast of Bayahibe. This was […]
IUCN Conservation Status: LEAST CONCERN This bluestriped grunt was in the waters off of Siesta Key in Florida I took this photo of a bluestriped grunt during some of the hours of snorkeling that I did in Siesta Key, Florida this past year. This year the water had been more clear than I had ever […]
IUCN Conservation Status: LEAST CONCERN I saw this star chickweed just after crossing a stream I took this photo of a star chickweed while out on a hike at Eagle Creek Park. It had been raining intermittently as I moseyed along the trail. When I took this particular photograph, the rain had just stopped. I […]
IUCN Conservation Status: DATA DEFICIENT The torch ginger flower was waiting for us in the shadow of nearby palm trees This torch ginger flower was blooming happily for Jill and I on our honeymoon. We were on the Road to Hana, and we had stopped off at the Ke’anae Arboretum. It was there that we […]
IUCN Conservation Status: LEAST CONCERN After some patience and steady watering, we began to have flowers bloom. This beaming photo of a sunflower was actually taken in my own backyard. Right at the beginning of April 2020, my wife and I moved to a new neighborhood in Indiana. Our backyard was large and flat, and […]
Cades Cove is an expanse of cascading mountains, lush fields, and dense forests. I was awestruck upon seeing this view of McCampbell Knob from Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Jill and I had just completed our hike to Abrams Falls via the comically named Wet Bottom Trail. As we stepped out […]
Kampinos National Park is a sister park to Indiana Dunes National Park I took this photo while on a work trip to Warsaw, Poland. I had been cooped up in a hotel in downtown Warsaw, and I decided that I wanted to go explore nature in this new country. I took a 45 minute Uber […]
Slippery stairs, ladders, and slopes stood between us and the base of Mooney Falls It was a harrowing descent down the slippery stairs, ladders, and slopes to get to the base of Mooney Falls. There were backlogs going up and going down on the mostly one person wide trail that took you from the top […]
I hope you do a double-take when looking at this green elfcup It’s really hard to tell what you’re looking at when you first see this photo. First of all, the shapes are very abnormal. The colors are atypical for the things we are used to seeing. Lastly, the dimensions are quite challenging to pickup. […]