Featured Photographer — Michel Bury

I’m starting a new feature here on the Deep Green Blog — interviews with my photographer friends so we can learn some different approaches to photography and post-processing. For the first feature, I interview French-Canadian photographer Michel Bury.

Canon EOS Discovery Series video with me in it

A few years ago, Canon Europe asked me to work with them on a video series featuring different photographers in action. In addition to documentary photographer Erik Refner and sports photographer Clive Rose, Canon chose me as a wildlife photographer working in an exotic locale. I believe they used the video in trade shows and [...]

Multiple-flash Experiments for Hummingbirds

Everyone who visits this blog knows that I love photographing hummingbirds. In fact, one could say it’s become a bit of an obsession! Why? Well, hummingbirds are just amazing in terms of their plumage, colors, and flight capabilities. Every time I photograph hummingbirds I get a surprise visitor or pose.  In addition, since photographing hummingbirds [...]

Green-crowned brilliant at Bomarea flower

Hi, just a quick post here to show off a hummingbird picture I really liked. I went to a little restaurant the other day with my good friends Jose Lopez and Monica Quesada (see mqcphoto.com) of Foto Verde Tours for a bit of hummingbird photography. Along the way we found this beautiful Bomarea epiphyte flower [...]

BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Grand Prize Winner Disqualified

As many of you are probably aware, Mr. Jose Luis Rodriguez, the grand prize winner of the most important nature photography contest in the world, has been stripped of his award and banned for life from entering the competition again. In a nutshell, a group of Spanish photographers raised questions regarding whether the wolf in [...]

Art of Biodiversity Exhibit in the USA

Back in the mid-1990s, while studying environmental politics and tropical ecology in grad school in St. Louis, MO, I worked at the world-renowned Missouri Botanical Garden. It was a great experience that taught me a lot about tropical plants and also produced some lasting contacts. These contacts led me to propose an idea for a [...]

Welcome to the New Deep Green Photography Blog

So, the new blog is up! In this article I give a behind the scenes look at the process behind designing it and some of the features it offers to you.