Red Dragonfly on an Antenna Metal Print

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I love photographing dragonflies. The transparency of their wings are beautiful, and they are so strange looking up close. It is a challenge to find them, and then to catch them in flight is even more difficult.

This red dragonfly, also know as Cardinal Meadowhawk and Sympetrum illotum, made it all pretty easy. I had just finished photographing one on a dead plant, when I saw this one on my car's antenna. I've noticed the red ones are much easier to find settled on a plant than the blue eyed darner.


Nature, animals, beauty have always been a source of nourishment throughout my life. Photography allows me to capture, interpret, and share that world of wonder I see about me, and sometimes what I capture as an inspiration to create something new.

I currently reside in Oregon, an environment rich in nature's graces. I have lived in California and New York, too, and everywhere there is a world of beauty around us, if we care to take the time and look for it.

Welcome to my page! There's a lot of photography here, so feel free to make multiple visits. The work can be viewed in galleries or you can search by keywords or title. I have a passion for the natural world and the living creatures that inhabit those places. The stunning beauty of our world and the wild animals that share this earth with us deserve to be revered and protected. In 2019, I was honored to have my work, Cougar Reservoir On A Snowy Day, published in the UK Sunday Times for their interview with Barry Lopez, the nature writer. In addition, recently, three large prints of waterfalls (Spirit Falls with Reflection, Moon Falls, and Pinard Falls), were bought by the Cottage Grove Ranger District Office to decorate their new work...