NORTH AMERICAN NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
Online Galleries
Photographs of North American nature and wildlife from the wilderness, suburbs and cities around the continent, in the form of an online nature reference and field guide. All images are available for print, instant download and immediate licensing for commercial and private use.
LANDSCAPES
From the rocky coasts of the Pacific Northwest's mighty Pacific Ocean to the tops of the Canadian Rockies, through Florida Everglades' River of Grass and across the painted deserts of the American Southwest then over the Appalachian Mountains ... these galleries have a little bit of everything that the best of North American landscapes can offer.
WILD PLACES, UNCIVILIZED AND UNTAMED
BIRDS
When it comes to birds, North America is fantastically rich in native species diversity. While some species are found around the world, the vast majority are found only here and nowhere else.
OUR NATIVE WILDLIFE, WILD AND FREE
MAMMALS
We mammals have come a long way since the time of the dinosaurs. We've conquered the land, sea and air. North America has more than 740 species alive today.
FROM THE AMERICAN BISON TO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD RACCOON
WILDFLOWERS
By far our largest collection of galleries, these image sets are arranged by both color and by taxonomic family for use as a casual identification tool or field guide, or for more thorough scientific research for deeper understanding.
OVER 90 GALLERIES OF NATIVE WILDFLOWERS
REPTILES
Long before the first dinosaur walked the earth, reptiles ruled the world. 65 million years after the last dinosaur drew its final breath, North America's modern crocodiles, alligators, snakes, lizards, and turtles and tortoises are still keeping our native natural history alive!
315 MILLION YEARS IN THE MAKING
AMPHIBIANS
Did you know the word "amphibian" means "two lives"? All amphibians start their lives in the underwater, but after they go through a series of metamorphosis stages to adulthood, most trade gills for lungs and live the rest of their lives out of the water.
FROGS, TOADS, NEWTS AND SALAMANDERS
BUTTERFLIES
North America is wildly rich in butterflies and moths. In the United States and Canada alone, there are roughly 750 species of butterflies and a whopping 11,000 species of moths! With careful and painstaking research, more new species are still being discovered all the time!
OUR NATIVE BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS
NATIVE ORCHIDS
One of the largest families in the plant kingdom with nearly 28 thousand species around the globe, orchids are also one of the most popular and most sought-after flowering plants in history. In Victorian times, entire foreign expeditions were sent around the world at great personal risk led by fearless (and often ruthless) orchid hunters to acquire the next new unknown exotic species from the most distant corner of the Earth. Luckily for us, North America is rich with unique native species found nowhere else in the world!
WILD IN THEIR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
INVERTEBRATES
96% of all currently living animal life alive today are invertebrates. Included are all the insects, arachnids, worms, crabs, shellfish, starfish, corals, and more! One thing they all have in common? No backbone.
THE WORLD'S MOST DIVERSE ANIMAL BIOMASS
CARNIVOROUS PLANTS
Sometimes called insectivorous plants, these amazing plants have adapted to a life in places where the soil is so poor in nutrients, that they've gained the ability to grow by trapping their food with modified leaves. By taking root in a harsh habitat, they have eliminated most of their competition from other plants.
WHEN THE PLANTS DO THE KILLING...
MUSHROOMS & LICHENS
Without the enormous and nearly invisible world of fungi, there would be no forests or plants as we know them, no animals living, feeding and hunting in the forests and nothing to break down what organic matter is left. It's this wonderful (and often weird) group that keeps nutrients moving and cycling through our world's ecosystems.
THE KEY TO ALL LAND-BASED LIFE
Loudmouth of the Sonoran Desert
This male black-tailed gnatcatcher and his mate weren’t very happy when I peered out of my tent in the bright Sonoran Desert...
Mountain Death Camas – Beautiful and Deadly
Over the summer I found myself in the Rocky Mountains looking for native orchids at around 8000-9000 feet...
The Cat-Faced Spider!
Recently I was out on a day off from the photography studio, working on a side project that involved foraging of lots of wild apples in one of my favorite recreation places...