Bright Coral

04/12/2025

Had a lovely time at the gala last night with many feathered friends!

Unfortunately, our short film, “Healing the Hurt,” couldn’t play due to some power issues at the venue, but hopefully it will be available to view soon.

A candle-lit evening with the birds was memorable, nevertheless! 🦅

03/20/2025

🦅 Remembering Murphy 🦅
We are so sad to hear of Murphy's passing last week during the storms. His story, which went viral in 2023, wasn't just a sweet story that people loved hearing. It was also an important step in conservation for bald eagles.

By recognizing Murphy's paternal instincts when he started incubating a rock and providing him with a foster eaglet, the WBS was able to release the orphaned eaglet back into the wild.

It's because of hard work like this that bald eagle numbers have rebounded since the 60s, when they had extremely low numbers. But bald eagles still face challenges due to lead poisoning from bullets, pesticides, and habitat loss.

We were so grateful for the opportunity to help share Murphy's incredible story. WBS is working to build more aviaries and a space for fostering birds, which they've stated will be called "Murphy's Manor" in his honor!

If you'd like to make a donation to support this project to help injured or orphaned birds like Murphy's eaglet, here's the WBS link to give:
https://secure.qgiv.com/for/worldbirdsanctuary/

09/23/2024

Happy first day of fall!

Here are some of the fall colors we saw while visiting Abruzzo, Italy and spending the day with Apennine wolves.

About 2.5 hours away in Rome, we visited the Capitoline wolf sculpture and saw countless pieces of artwork depicting the nursing wolf and Romulus and Remus. It was fascinating that despite this mythology of Rome’s origin, their wolves were still persecuted.

08/29/2024

Hoping bald eagle patient #24-390 pulls through. Michael and I were glad to help share this story with the World Bird Sanctuary and we hope it prevents this from happening to any other creatures.

A bald eagle is slowly recovering after surgeries in Missouri, the victim of a shooting that experts say is far too common for America's national bird and other raptors.

08/21/2024

Little Blue Heron School is now in session! We aren’t sure why only turtles enrolled this year, but please take notes during this demonstration of how to land in a tree and pester other little blue herons.

07/31/2024

Three beautiful creatures, three beautiful moments spent in Italy’s Abruzzo region.

When people talk about gratitude, I often remember the moments I photograph animals and the often brief encounters I have with them.

This red deer was actually one of the smaller bucks we saw and the photo was captured from the car. It was not with the rest of the herd.

The fox was spotted on a walk. And it was oh-so-majestically dragging a bag of garbage from a campsite. It was obviously way too habituated to humans, and walked right up to me.

I assumed my photos would be terrible of it, because it was quite dark, but I was able to brighten it up enough to see myself standing in her eye’s reflection.

So there’s my gratitude for the day!

06/14/2024

An incredible conservation story and an incredible group of people! Always grateful to be a tiny piece of the puzzle of helping endangered animals like the Mexican wolf. 🐺

I manage the archival footage for the Endangered Wolf Center and if you’re a documentarian in need of footage to help share these stories, get in touch!

05/27/2024

Our friend, Katie, at Locality Studio interviewed me recently about how I got started working in conservation and transitioned from the film world to helping wildlife through video, photo, and design.

Thank you for the feature!

02/10/2024

This morning at 11am, tune into NBC to see the episode, “Into the Wolf Den,” that features the !

We captured these behind the scenes moments of the filming of this episode and it was a pleasure to work with their team.

We interviewed on camera after this taping and he had us tearing up behind the camera when he spoke of his work with Marlin Perkins, who founded the Endangered Wolf Center, and his hopes for this new series to inspire future generations to protect wildlife and wild places. We hope you’ll tune in and learn something about wolves, one of the most misunderstood creatures in history.

📺 at 11am