Not for me, I’m afraid, but for my friend Scott Linstead. In just a few years, Scott has become an expert in high-speed nature photography, both in the field and in the studio. He has a knack for capturing fleeting moments of animal movement and behavior that most photographers miss. It’s not luck – hours [...]
As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been working on updating my main photo website, www.neillosin.com. The last time I updated the site was when I added photographs taken in Uganda in February 2009. Not surprisingly, there were a lot of new pictures to be added this time — over 200, in fact, representing [...]
The anoles kept me pretty busy in Miami, but I still managed to visit a few photographer friends. On my last weekend in Florida, I headed down to Big Pine Key, where my friend Chad Anderson lives and works at the National Key Deer Refuge. The Key Deer (Odocoileus virginianus clavium) is an endangered subspecies [...]
When I talk to people about my images, I’m inclined to call myself a “photographer,” not an “artist.” It’s not that I don’t think that photography is art – on the contrary, I don’t think there’s any qualitative difference between the “art-ness” of a photograph and a painting. I just like to be specific. Nevertheless, [...]
Just a couple of quick updates re: previous blog posts. On May 13, I wrote about the America’s Birdiest County competition. At that time, we knew that LA County birders had tallied a massive 271 species in one weekend, which would surely put us in contention for the title “America’s Birdiest County.” The official results [...]
Last month, my collaborator Jason Kolbe returned to Miami to continue his work with South Florida’s invasive anoles, and he brought two undergraduate field assistants from Harvard. We all got together for a barbecue at my place, so I had a chance to chat with Rick Stanley, one of Jason’s assistants. I learned that Rick [...]
Doing field research means spending long hours out in nature, day after day, week after week, often performing mundane, repetitive tasks. To someone who has never tried it for themselves, this probably sounds excruciatingly boring. And, to be fair, it can be. But in biology, like photography, persistence and patience are essential – nature always [...]
Wow, time flies! I’m back in Los Angeles after a quick, uneventful cross-country drive, and I’m ready to begin working through the mountain of data, photos, and video that I accumulated during my 3-month field season in Puerto Rico and Miami. I will, of course, post updates on my blog along the way. The end [...]