A few words about how Naturewide Images came about: I was raised in the northern suburbs of Chicago, where I developed an early interest in tropical fishes, reptiles, and amphibians. I began observing and photographing birds during my sophomore year of college. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, I moved to Arcata, California to pursue a Master's Degree in Fisheries Biology at Humboldt State University. I stayed at Humboldt for 10 years, teaching several Fisheries classes, labs for others, curating the University's fish museum, and doing a lot of bird watching.
In 1980, I moved from Northern California to Houston, Texas to become a founding partner in Peregrine Tours, a small birding tour company. Six years later, I began a 12-year stint leading birding tours for Wings, Inc., working primarily in Texas and Latin America. Later, I worked with Fermata, Inc. performing site assessments and helping to design birding trails, including five of the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trails and Great Texas Wildlife Trails, and the Coastal portion of the Virginia Birding and Wildlife Trail, as well as projects in Maryland, Kansas, and West Texas. See Fermata's latest interactive project on the Texas Coastal Bend at: Bird The Bend .
While living in Houston, I formed Naturewide Images as a sales outlet for my photography. My favorite birds to photograph were nightbirds (owls and nightjars), but I also aimed my lenses at other kinds of birds as well as plants, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and other subjects. Subsequently, I've concentrated on photographing insects, especially Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies), butterflies, and grasshoppers.
Naturewide Images has enjoyed publishing success, providing a variety of photographs for advertising, packaging, and many publications including: World Wildlife Fund and Audubon calendars, Nature Conservancy News, Audubon, Smithsonian, Handbook of Birds of the World, Texas Highways, Texas Parks and Wildlife, Arizona Daily Star, Houston Chronicle, Dragonflies of North America, and various field guides to birds and insects. Photo Credits.
Elk: Fern Canyon, Humboldt Co., CA
In order to document my observations, provide additional venues for photo sales, and because I enjoy writing, I have authored or co-authored approximately 50 publications. These include two books on birds and birding trails in East Texas, a beginner's guide to Southwestern dragonflies, and articles in both technical literature and popular newspapers and magazines. Writing Credits.
Banana Slug: Del Norte Co., CA
Acquiring images of a diversity of natural history topics allows me to make both slide and PowerPoint presentations to various clubs and several nature festivals. These events include the Texas Butterfly Festival, Dragonfly Days, and the Southwest Wings Birding Festival where I have concentrated on insect topics. See Nature Presentations.
Brilliant Metalmark: Monterrey, Mexico
My partner Karen and I live at the interface of the Chihuahuan Desert and the lowest Emory and Blue oaks at an elevation of approximately 5,000 feet. We are located in Ash Canyon south of Sierra Vista, Arizona in one of the country's premier butterflying and birding areas. Since early November of 2003 when we moved to SE Arizona, we have observed nearlt 160 species of birds in our yard. See the link for Yard List-Birds. Many of the 100+ species of butterflies as well as a few of the moths that have visited us may be viewed at Butterflies and Plants I, Butterflies and Plants II, and Butterflies and Plants III. Our small wildlife pond and the many plants we've added attract a diversity of birds, butterflies, dragonflies, and even a few mammals. Photos of some of these are at Attracting Wildlife. The pages linked in this paragraph should be useful to gardeners interested in xeriscaping, pollination, and creating habitat for birds and butterflies.
Traveler Grasshopper (Rhammatocerus viatorius) San Pedro River at Hwy 92, Palominas, AZ (2 November 2007)
"Two years ago I added grasshoppers to the ongoing exploration of our yard. My interest in them sprang from two fronts. On the one hand, they are a familiar group of colorful and large insects that can produce sounds with their legs and wings. On the other hand, their thousands of tiny jaws were aggressively consuming our garden....Read more
Male Widow Skimmer: Montgomery Co., TX
After leading bird tours for over 25 years, I continue to lead bird, dragonfly, and butterfly excursions at a number of nature festivals, and, most recently, bird tours for Elderhostel and Naturalist Journeys. I also lead a small number of private tours, mainly, but not limited to SE Arizona. If you are interested in a private event, please contact me for details.
Primroses: Tucson, AZ (PhotoShop filter)
Yaqui Dancer (Argia carlcooki) is a damselfly that was recently documented in northern Sonora, Mexico and Arizona. Pictures not presented in the original publication may be viewed at Yaqui Dancer.
Black-tailed Rattlesnake: Sierra Vista, AZ (22 July 2006)
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Robert A. Behrstock 2009
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