Growing up, I spent many years believing I would one day be a veterinarian, but as I later found out in several of my biology classes, I don’t have the stomach for dissections and surgeries. Still, I love animals from afar. Wildlife photography is a totally different game than landscape photography. Both require patience, but unlike landscapes, encounters with wildlife are often fleeting. When I photograph an animal, I love nothing more than an image that displays its behavior. Detailed portraits that reveal textures that are hard to see in person are a close second. Most of my wildlife shots incorporate one or the other, ideally both. Recently, I’ve been playing with blending animals into landscapes as a sort of middle ground between the two disciplines. That’s a lot of fun, too, and has potential to create striking images.