A Fragment Of My Journey – Wildlife Artwork
Ever since I could gather up a writhing handful of worms, I’ve been drawing. I’ve always been fascinated by the structure and lifestyles of animals. Through this deep admiration, I […]
In The Eyes of a Huntress
I revisited an older photo of an adult female Misumena vatia, shot with my old 28mm lens reversed on my set of Kenko extension tubes. The image is soft and […]
Arachnology Adventures with Rod Crawford – August 6th, 2010
In Arachnologist Rod Crawford’s lab, there is a big black and white map of Washington State. It’s been diced up in a grid of latitudes and longitudes, and red dots […]
Beyond fears, new beginnings
There was no way I could have ever guessed that an encounter with a small spider six years ago would have changed my life as much as it has. Like […]
The Wilderness of Intuition – My First Day in Ecuador
15th of February, 2011 It was through the wooden boards of the ceiling above that James’s music, albeit a bit muffled, reached my ears. It succeeded in rousing me […]
The Logistics – Getting to Ecuador!
14th of February, 2011 In the quiet and cool dark of morning, I woke to an alarm that was set for about 4:00am. I hadn’t slept much that night, honestly…the […]
Beyond the Impossible!
As a consequence of the Seattle Times spider article and the mere click of a button on Facebook, James became a most unusual and fascinating part of my life on […]
What The Spiders Taught Me
On the 13th of January, 2011, a friend I’d made over Facebook sent me a rather lengthy private message. It was no ordinary message, but neither was the man who’d […]
What the Spiders Taught Me 