We spent last night in Kansas City, about a four hour drive from St. Louis. Went out to dinner with a couple of Mrs. C's sibs, no new ph...

Some very streamlined inhabitants of the St. Louis Zoo. Above, a West Coast harbor seal, if I remember correctly. Below, a pair of Viet...

That's just the name of my favorite Frank Zappa ditty . I don't think these are actually juveniles. Inexplicably, the raptor bo...

We saw this just beside a trail at the Desert Botanical Garden. I don't run away screaming from snakes (with the possible exception...

  You can go for a night walk through the cloud forests of Monteverde with a guide. It's a good idea to have one along. The green s...

. I need to get out and shoot some new stuff (in my spare time). For a few days, we will go back to the strange, sometimes desolate area nor...

. Still editing London pictures. For now, back in Bob Cassilly's crazy plaza in the industrial wastelands north of the Arch, first noted...

. I don't know much about herpetology but I know a good looking snake when I see one. Despite the fact that many members of this famil...