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What you see here is only the beginning. Just e-mail or call (402) 474-1006 for a customized digital delivery.

Natural History

  • Alaska's North Slope
  • In Search of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
  • Brazil's Pantanal
  • Wildlife in the Pribilof Islands
  • The Atacama Desert, including wildlife and culture
  • Rainforests of the Pacific Northwest, including Clayoquot Sound area, logging, tourism, and wildlife
  • Attwater's prairie-chickens, including captive breeding and birds in the wild
  • South American rainforest species, including three-toed sloths, scarlet macaws in flight and nesting in cliffs
  • Brazil, including forest fruits, medicinal plants, and rainforest destruction
  • A National Geographic photographer for ten years with focus on American environmental subjects, especially endangered species
  • One-of-a-kind shots of wild gray wolves in Yellowstone, and grizzly bears chasing bison in Yellowstone
  • Endangered species, habitats and land-use issues throughout the American West, Great Plains, Alaska, and Gulf Coast
  • For specific listings, see Specialties.


  • General Stock

  • Agriculture
  • Cultures and lifestyles throughout
  • North America
  • Cowboys
  • Disney's Animal Kingdom (FL)
  • Farming
  • Fishing
  • Grazing
  • Humor in everyday life
  • Immigrants
  • Logging
  • Mining
  • Native Americans
  • Ranching
  • Recreation
  • Rural and urban landscapes


  • Environmental

  • Energy development, Alaska
  • Energy development, lower 48 US states
  • Endangered species (current and former)
  • Air pollution
  • Biologists
  • Biology
  • Captive breeding
  • Coal bed methane production
  • Dams
  • Development
  • Ecotourism (US and abroad
  • Erosion
  • Fishing
  • Green energy
  • Hunting
  • Hurricane Andrew Aftermath
  • Impact of extractive industries
  • Military (incl. aerials of B-2 bomber in flight)
  • Mosquito Spraying
  • Oil production (on and offshore)
  • Pollution and shrimping in the Gulf of Mexico
  • Research
  • Traffic


  • Specialties

  • Studio portraits on black and white backgrounds of thousands of species from around the world
  • American endangered and threatened amphibians, birds, insects, mammals, mollusks, plants, and reptiles
  • Bald eagles, both in the wild and being reared with hand puppets in captivity
  • Ecosystems
  • Exclusive images of Wild Wolves in Yellowstone and Minnesota, incl. hunting and pack behavior
  • Mexican gray wolves and pups
  • Musk ox
  • Native American salmon ceremony
  • Prairie species and ecosystems
  • Rainforest logging
  • Gunnison's prairie-dog
  • Gunnison's Sage Grouse
  • Rainforest insects, frogs, snakes, wild pigs, jaguar, and three-toed sloth
  • Rattlesnakes in the wild and at rattlesnake roundup
  • Red wolf
  • Salmon and reasons for their decline in the Pacific Northwest
  • Steller sea lion
  • Walrus (and walrus hunting)
  • Whooping crane
  • Yellowstone wildlife and scenics
  • Attwater's prairie-chicken
  • American alligator
  • Black-footed ferret
  • California condor
  • California gnatcatcher
  • Coyotes
  • Desert tortoise
  • Elk
  • Florida panther
  • Gray whale
  • Kodiak bears
  • Manatee
  • Scarlet macaws


  • Geographic Areas

  • Alaska's North Slope
  • America's National Wildlife Refuge system
  • Atacama desert
  • Bioko, Equatorial Guinea
  • Brazil (Pantanal, Amazon)
  • Bolivia (Nature and Ecosystems)
  • Connecticut
  • Florida (entire coastline, Keys, Everglades)
  • Ireland
  • Idaho
  • Columbia River (Pacific Northwest)
  • Israel
  • Kansas
  • Louisiana
  • Nebraska (extensive)
  • Nevada
  • Northwest Territories
  • Oklahoma
  • Oregon
  • Pribilof Islands
  • St. Lucia
  • Scotland
  • Texas (including Texas/Mexico border)
  • Utah
  • Washington


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