Your Bio

After working first, for a short time, as an architect and then for a much longer time as a physics professor I have returned to a childhood interest in nature. This interest along with a desire to capture the beauty of nature has led to nature photography and my website here.
One area of particular interest is butterflies and eventually one will be able to view galleries covering all 6 families of butterflies as well as birds and flowers, both wild and from the garden. Presently I have 5 of the 6 families of butterflies represented. All butterfies photographed were freely flying butterflies found in the eastern United States.
Besides butterflies I dabble in birds and flowers. The bird photos fall into two broad categories, wild and those of the National Aviary. The flowers also fall into two broad categories, wild and garden flowers.
All of my photos can be purchased. If interested please email me at jim5@psu.edu

Galleries

Formal Flowers : Flowers come in such an amazing variety of shapes and colors. To try and emphasize this I have taken a series of what I call "formal" shots of single flowers against a black background, This is in order to really isolate the sttructure of each individual type of flower.

Formal Flowers

Flowers come in such an amazing variety of shapes and colors. To try a ...

Updated: Feb 17, 2008 11:20am EST

Papilionidae(Swallowtails) : Family: Papilionidae
Subfamilies: Papilioninae(Swallowtails) & Parnassiinae

Papilionidae(Swallowtails)

Family: Papilionidae Subfamilies: Papilioninae(Swallowtails) & Parnas ...

Updated: Dec 18, 2007 11:39am EST

Pieridae(Sulphurs & Whites) : Family: Pieridae      
     Subfamilies: Colianae(Sulphurs) and Pierinae(Whites).

Pieridae(Sulphurs & Whites)

Family: Pieridae Subfamilies: Colianae(Sulphurs) and Pieri ...

Updated: Feb 03, 2009 3:17pm EST

Lycaenidae (Gossamer Wings) : Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamilies: Subfamilies: Miletinae (Harvester), Lycaeninae (Coppers), Theclinae (Hairstreaks and Elfins), Polyommatinae (Blues)

Lycaenidae (Gossamer Wings)

Family: Lycaenidae Subfamilies: Subfamilies: Miletinae (Harvester), L ...

Updated: Feb 14, 2009 2:06pm EST

Nymphalidae (Brushfoots) :

Nymphalidae (Brushfoots)

Updated: Feb 03, 2009 11:32am EST

Hesperiidae (Skippers) :

Hesperiidae (Skippers)

Updated: Feb 03, 2009 11:47am EST

National Aviary-Wetlands Room :

National Aviary-Wetlands Room

Updated: Feb 16, 2008 3:41pm EST

National Aviary non-Wetlands Room :

National Aviary non-Wetlands Room

Updated: Feb 16, 2008 3:53pm EST