I didn't grow up in a naturally rich environment. The suburbs of Washington D.C. are not exactly a playground of wild environments. However, there are surprising pockets of abundance. Every spring, along the rich alluvial floodplains of the Potomac River, Virginia...
Spring Ephemerals Along the PHTThe Potomac Gorge is a hotspot of biodiversity just upstream of the Nation's Capital, Washington D.C. Two ecoregions overlap at the fall line and a wild river runs through. I take multiple dayhikes along the Potomac Heritage Trail...
Travel was shut down in 2020 as we all wrapped our heads around the novel coronavirus. That meant no trip to Charleston, South Carolina for me. Instead, I began to focus my attention on documenting the spring ephemeral wildflowers in my local parks. The Potomac...
Each year, a small gap in my travel schedule allows a return to my hometown of Northern Virginia to witness and photograph the Virginia Bluebells. Much of the early spring hype is focused on the nearby Japanese Cherry Trees in downtown Washington D.C., where visitors...
Each spring around mid-April I rattle off several hundred frames that I never show anyone. Frames of Virginia Bluebells. There's really nothing in my landscape calendar each year that wrecks my confidence as a photographer more thoroughly than Virginia Bluebells,...