Photography Locations & Subject Matter Include:
- North American Locations
- The Midwest: Porcupine Mountains State Park (Michigan), Upper Peninsula, Michigan,
Door County (Wisconsin), Chiwaukee Prairie (Wisconsin),
Shawnee National Forest (Southern Illinois) and numerous locations in the
Chicago, Illinois area.
- Chicago, Illinois area: Forest Preserve District of Cook County,
Lake County Forest Preserves, Forest Preserve District of Will County,
Forest Preserve District of DuPage County,
Messenger Woods (Will County - south Chicago area),
Bluff Spring Fen (Elgin, Illinois - Cook County)
Chiwaukee Prairie (Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin - Kenosha County)
Wolf Road Prairie (Westchester, Illinois - Cook County),
Lockport Prairie (Lockport, Illinois - Will County),
Belmont Prairie (DuPage County, Illinois),
Fermilab Prairie (DuPage County, Illinois),
West Chicago Prairie (West Chicago, Illinois - DuPage County),
Illinois Beach State Park (Zion, Illinois - Lake County)
Pilcher Park (Joliet, Illinois - Will County - far southwest Chicago area),
Raccoon Grove (Will County - Monee, Illinois - far south Chicago area),
Black Partridge Woods (Lemont, Illinois - Cook County - southwest Chicago area),
Spears Woods (Cook County - Willow Springs, Illinois - south Chicago area),
Middlefork Savanna (Lake Forest, Illinois - Lake County),
McGinnis Slough (Cook County - Orland Park, Illinois),
Saganashkee Slough (Cook County - Palos Hills, Illinois),
Maple Lake (Cook County - Palos Hills, Illinois),
Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve
(DuPage County, Illinois, west of Chicago),
Morton Arboretum (Lisle, Illinois - DuPage County - west of Chicago),
Lake in the Hills Fen (Lake in the Hills,
McHenry County - northwestern Chicago area)
- The West: Grand Teton National Park (Wyoming),
Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming), Wind River Range (Wyoming),
Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado), Yankee Boy Basin (Colorado),
Arches National Park (Utah), Bryce Canyon National Park (Utah),
Canyonlands National Park (Utah),
Glacier National Park (Montana), Joshua Tree National Park (California),
Yosemite National Park (California),
- The Southwest:
Canyon de Chelly (Arizona), Grand Canyon (Arizona),
Monument Valley (Arizona), Painted Desert (Arizona),
Petrified Forest National Park (Arizona), Picacho Peak (Arizona),
Oak Creek Canyon (Sedona, Arizona), Saquaro National Park (Tucson, Arizona),
Sedona, Arizona, Sunset Crater (Arizona)
- The Northwest: Olympic National Park (Washington), Olympic Peninsula (Washington),
Mount Rainier National Park (Washington), Columbia River Gorge (Portland, Oregon),
- The Southeast: The birds of Florida including Venice,
Fort Myers, Ding Darling, Sanibel Island, and Everglades National Park (Florida)
- Wildflowers: Virginia bluebells, large-flowered trillium, prairie trillium,
mayapple, skunk cabbage, blue-eyed Mary, wild leek, bloodroot,
false rue anemone, dutchman's breeches, cut-leaved toothwort,
swamp smartweed, hibiscus, swamp rose mallow, indian paintbrush,
Liatris (marsh blazing star, rough blazing star),
blue flag iris, purple coneflower, yellow coneflower, purple prairie clover,
rattlesnake master, bird's foot violet, lousewort or wood betony, lupine,
spiderwort, scurfy pea, partridge pea, skunk cabbage, evening primrose,
prairie coneflower, black-eyed Susan, blue flag iris, prairie sundrops,
false rue anemone, rattlesnake master, dutchman's breeches, cut-leaved toothwort,
nodding wild onion, swamp smartweed, hibiscus, swamp rose mallow, indian paintbrush,
wild bergamot or menarda, shooting star, Culver's root, lead plant, cotton grass,
hoary puccoon, showy tick trefoil, foxglove beard tongue, prairie phlox, pasture rose,
Joe Pye weed, common milkweed, swamp milkweed, nodding wild onion, butterfly weed or
butterfly milkweed, yellow star grass, sand coreopsis, golden alexanders,
compass plant, western sunflower, prairie dock, cup plant, tall coreopsis, sneezeweed,
showy goldenrod, saw-toothed sunflower, tall goldenrod, stiff goldenrod,
starry false Solomon's seal, flowering spurge, meadow anemone, wild quinine,
whorled milkweed, mountain mint, prairie grasses, sedges,
porcupine grass, prairie brome, big bluestem,
side-oats grama, Indian grass, prairie dropseed, little bluestem, etc.
- Wading Birds & Waterfowl: great blue heron,
great egret (endangered species), great white heron, black-crowned night heron,
yellow-crowned night heron, green heron, little blue heron,
tri-colored heron (Louisiana heron), snowy egret, common gallinule (moorhen),
purple gallinule, white ibis, glossy ibis, pied-billed grebe, trumpeter swan,
wood stork (endangered species), Canada goose (Canada geese),
double-crested cormorant,
mallard duck, ring-billed gull, anhinga, brown pelican, white pelican
- Other Birds: red-winged blackbird, belted kingfisher, rufous hummingbird,
black vulture, osprey
- Reptiles: alligators, turtles, snakes
- Mammals: white-tailed deer, mule deer, coyote, raccoon, moose, elk (wapiti),
bison, bighorn sheep, mountain goat, yellow-bellied marmot, muskrat
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