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My macro flora and fauna photography connects me to the small, hidden lives unfolding just outside my back door in Maryland’s Ridge-and-Valley region of the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States. The native habitat, which I call my “Living Studio,” is where my scientific cataloguing and creative imagery evolved into The Small Stuff, a series of botanical and insect portraits that capture the behaviour, colour, and subtle rhythms of plant and insect life cycles as they appear, transform, and disappear.
I have documented more than 500 species of native plants and insects. Each image invites an intimacy possible only through the macro experience and offers a visual space for self-reflection and poetic conversation with the wildlife surrounding us. I work handheld with the Laowa 60mm super-macro and 25mm ultra-macro lenses, a Canon EOS 6D, speedlite, and diffuser.
After graduating from Kenyon College in 1988 with a B.S. in Psychology and Music, I pursued the performing arts in New York City before returning to my hometown of Cumberland, Maryland, where I received a B.F.A. in Photography, Printmaking, and Teacher Education from Frostburg State University.
In 2025, I was honored to receive the Siena International Creative Photo Awards Runner-Up Pangea Prize for Nature and Landscape. Most recently, my series The Small Stuff was featured in AAP Magazine #54: Nature, and I was selected as a finalist for the International Garden Photographer of the Year in the Wildflower Landscape category. Other distinctions include recognition from the PHI Photo Awards, The Wild Lens Magazine, the Natural History Museum Wildlife Photographer of the Year, the National Wildlife Federation’s Garden for Wildlife, and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
I have documented more than 500 species of native plants and insects. Each image invites an intimacy possible only through the macro experience and offers a visual space for self-reflection and poetic conversation with the wildlife surrounding us. I work handheld with the Laowa 60mm super-macro and 25mm ultra-macro lenses, a Canon EOS 6D, speedlite, and diffuser.
After graduating from Kenyon College in 1988 with a B.S. in Psychology and Music, I pursued the performing arts in New York City before returning to my hometown of Cumberland, Maryland, where I received a B.F.A. in Photography, Printmaking, and Teacher Education from Frostburg State University.
In 2025, I was honored to receive the Siena International Creative Photo Awards Runner-Up Pangea Prize for Nature and Landscape. Most recently, my series The Small Stuff was featured in AAP Magazine #54: Nature, and I was selected as a finalist for the International Garden Photographer of the Year in the Wildflower Landscape category. Other distinctions include recognition from the PHI Photo Awards, The Wild Lens Magazine, the Natural History Museum Wildlife Photographer of the Year, the National Wildlife Federation’s Garden for Wildlife, and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.