Projects

Welcome to my conservation photography projects page!

Currently, I am working on two conservation photography projects that mean a great deal to me which are the Virginia Wildlife Corridors and Crossings (Habitat Connectivity) and my Butterfly Habitat Oasis Project.

Virginia Wildlife Corridors and Crossings is an important conservation photography project that I have undertaken to educate and bring awareness by writing conservation photography articles, blog posts and posts on social media. I volunteer with the a non-profit conservation organization here in Virginia, called Wild Virginia. I serve on their communications team and donate some my images for use for habitat connectivity campaigns as well as other wildlife campaigns.

The Butterfly Habitat Oasis Project came from me creating a backyard butterfly garden after a recent move to a new house. I wanted to create to this butterfly and pollinator garden to especially help with the decreasing population of Monarch butterflies and to provide shelter, food, water, host plants and a variety of nectar plants for all butterflies. Spring 2022 will be my first spring with my backyard butterfly garden in this new house. I will be documenting and keeping track of my butterfly friends that pass through my backyard butterfly garden oasis. I will be tracking the Monarch migration as well as reporting my sightings to Monarch Larva Monitoring Project (MLMP). As a volunteer with MLMP, I will aid in conserving monarchs by reporting and documenting data from my backyard butterfly garden. In 2022, my backyard butterfly garden has been certified as a Monarch Butterfly Garden and as a Certified Butterfly Garden by the North American Butterfly Association and certified as a Monarch Waystation by Monarch Watch. In 2023 I started growing milkweed plants from seeds to add to my garden since the monarchs eat up the milkweed already planted. During the 2023 season I did see a decrease in amount of monarch eggs, caterpillars and adult butterflies.

Please click on the image or project name to see that particular project page.