Selected Photos

Personal favorites from across my collections — for the aesthetics, or the light, or the moment.

Barred Owl Perched Low Hunting a Fern Patch

Pawlet, Vermont, USA (June 2024)

Eastern Box Turtle

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Maryland, USA (July 2023)

Humpback Calf Breaches Repeatedly with Mother for Over Forty Minutes

Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA (August 2022)

Lucerne Altstadt

Lucerne, Switzerland (July 2021)

Crocodile Stalks Pond Edge

Everglades National Park, Florida, USA (March 2020)

Short-Eared Owl Hunting Low Over New York Grasslands

New York, USA (February 2020)

Garden Cross Spider In Monastery Courtyard

Pokhara, Nepal (June 2013)

Krishna Peacock Queen of Himalayan Butterflies

Dana, Nepal (May 2013)

Nepali Weaver at Loom in Fern Patch

Kalopani, Nepal (May 2013)

Kashmir Rock Agama

Lete, Nepal (May 2013)

Northern Paper Wasp

Pawlet, Vermont, USA (September 2010)

Mumbai Street Cricket

Mumbai, India (February 2000)

Humpback Lunge Feeding Showing Baleen-Lined Mouth

Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts, USA

Joey Ramone Legendary Singer of The Ramones in 1997

Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA

Barred Owl Drops on Prey Hunting the edge of New York grasslands.

New York, USA

Dave Grohl & Taylor Hawkins The Foo Fighters Live in 1997

Roseland Ballroom, New York City, New York, USA

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