Famous Fingers

I have never wanted to be famous but I would be selfish to deprive my thumb and index finger of pursuing a career in the public eye. This is the second occasion that the image “A Bat In The Hand” has been published.
Today I received a of the Gold Canyon ledger out of Gold Canyon Arizona. It is fun to see an image take on a life of its own.

What Stinks?

I received another book via DHL yesterday. Months ago Darby Creek Publishing asked to use my photo of a Southern Lubber Grasshopper for a children’s book they were publishing.


This is so much fun! Look there is the photo I took in my backyard right in the middle of the page. Thank you Lord for these small blessings, and thank you Darby Creek Publishing for finding value in the image!

Here it is on amazon!

Robotic Bat

Several years ago I went to one of my favorite spots in central Florida. Located in Citrus Wildlife Management Area just North and East of Brooksville. After arriving I located a bat in one of the larger caves, plucked it from the roof of the cave, and took the photo above of the feisty little critter clutched in my grubby hand. A few years after captureing the image I uploaded it to a stock exchange site. Still a couple of years more and I received an email expressing an interest in publishing the image in a children’s book! Well yesterday copies of the completed book arrived a part of the compensation for the image usage.


Wow what fun to see my little image in a very well designed book. There was even a toy robotic bat bundled with the book how cool is that?


This book is quite a production and is full of facts and illustrations about all things bat.


You can bet I had that bat assembled in the next twenty minutes.


Here is the page with my grubby hand and the bat!

Thank you Mr. Roff of becker&mayer publishing for all the fun and excitement!You folks are a class act!

Here it is at amazon!

Owls of Higher Learning

The internet is an astonishing mover. A couple of years ago I yanked some baby owls out of the box I built them in the front yard. They were not please with me to say the least but I didn't let those superior and condemning eyes detour me from taking a whole bunch of baby owl photographs. I was pleased with the result but I am sure that those owls resent the experience to this very day.

Well Owls I have good news. You guys are now serving the higher education community at The University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. It turns out that one KJ Moffatt found you on the SXC while perusing for images to include in the schools web site and brochures. Here is how it went down.



Truly amazing to think that the internet has, in it's weird and wonderful way, serendipitously transported a couple of lovable little owls from my front yard in Tampa, Florida over the ocean to the UK. A simple image taken for my own enjoyment becomes a useful tool for a school in Bristol. This is the type of story that in earlier generations would have deemed so fantastic as to have been worthy of an H.G. Wells science fiction short story.