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Dance of the Dead Trees, Part 1. Five-hundred-year-old trees in front of a tremendous dune in the middle of the Namib Desert. A mirage at ground level creates a mirror image of some of the sand and bushes.Dance of the Dead Trees, Part 2. Five-hundred-year-old trees surrounded by dunes in the middle of the Namib Desert.A black sand beach in Dominica with a waterfall cascading from the jungle above. I had to work for this one with a climb down the wet cliffs. At one point I was 50 feet in the air resting on a cocoa tree branch with thirty pounds of camera gear on my back looking down onto the crashing surf thinking, A wild elephant ear leaf covered in morning dew. Nicaraguan rainforest.A bee collects nectar from a wild choke cherry bloom.The Christmas cactus produces an out-sized red flower tenuously held at the end of a long chain of green cactus pads. The plant's name comes from its tendency to bloom in December rather than from the obvious color match. The long curled chain of pads can be hypnotizing, like a path of stepping stones that needs to be followed to its gorgeous end.A wild black-eyed susan, just beginning to flower. Colorado.Budding star. Thistle near Nederland, Colorado.A slowly unfolding Indian Paintbrush flower, one of many gorgeous flowers that grace the beaches of Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska. Photographed during my Artist in Residency at Glacier Bay National Park. For funding my stay, I am very grateful to the National Park Service, Alaska Geographic, and the Voices of the Wilderness program.Indian paintbrush. Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska.Star of the Show. An indian paintbrush in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska.Who says there aren't any dragons? It's a Northern Bahamian Rock Iguana, about 5 feet long from tip to tail. There are only 5000 left in the wild, and I was lucky to see three.

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