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A female Ruby Throated Hummingbird at Patuxent Wildlife Refuge -North Tract in Laurel Maryland. She is a beauty. This is one of those shoots where I wish I had bumped up my shutter speed more. I underestimated those fast little birds!

This land is public and administered by US Fish and Wildlife, a part of the Department of Interior. Next to this land is Ft Meade Army Base. So the land is also used by the Fort to has run ranges- an odd combination.

My focus has always been on the natural world and its beauty whether it be a dragonfly, flower, frog, or tree bark. When viewing our world, I look at how people and architectural structures fit into it now and in the past. Do they coexist with their natural surroundings or look out of place? To that end, what compels me to take photos is, not only our natural world, but the history we created within it, thus combining my two loves of nature and history. It is my intention that my photographs of landscapes and architecture, as well as close ups of nature and historical artifacts, give us a sense of the world around us. As a photographer and naturalist, I continually search for the obscure, as well as the obvious, as I believe without...