They used to call me Turtle Man.
Well, the neighbors did at least— on account of all the turtles my best friend and I would wrangle out of the swamp when we were kids (we were both Turtle Man), but the first reptile I ever caught was, in fact, a lizard!
It was a green anole, anolis carolinensis, and it bit my finger. I don’t remember it hurting. All I remember is that I wanted to catch more.
I got my first camera specifically for wildlife photography, but eventually my interest in photography grew to include other niches…
So I did!
I never stopped catching lizards, and in junior year of high school I started capturing them with a camera too.
That’s where I started with photography. Lizards and other creatures I wanted to catch outside— Wildlife Photography!
