THE FILE 30,000+ 35mm film and digital.

OVERVIEW Cardwell specializes in the creatures that most people believe are dangerous, disgusting or just plain strange - whether they actually are or not. For example, snakes, spiders, sharks, bats, scorpions, ticks and leeches.

NATURAL HISTORY Primarily portraits, macro and behavioral images of reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates and marine life plus many birds, mammals and flora. Half of stock is reptiles, including well over 300 taxa. Also, images of habitats and ecosystems, including temperate deserts, forests, wetlands, tropical dry forests, cloud forests and rainforests, islands and tropical coral reefs.

SPECIALTIES Reptiles (especially venomous species), invertebrates (especially medically significant spiders, scorpions, parasites), marine life. Many New World and African species photographed in situ. Worldwide species represented. Extensive underwater coverage of marine fish and invertebrates of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and Pacific Coast of California.

GEOGRAPHIC AREAS Much of the U.S., especially Arizona, California, Florida and Virginia. Many Caribbean islands, both above sea level and underwater. Mexico, including Midriff Islands in Sea of Cortés. Costa Rica, including cloud forest, rainforest, tropical dry forest. The Amazon Basin. Southern Africa. Eastern Australia. Many Asian, northern/central African and South Pacific reptiles are represented, as well.

RECENT COVERAGE Due to a four-year radiotelemetry project, extensive new coverage of in situ Mojave rattlesnakes (Crotalus scutulatus), widely regarded as the most toxic rattlesnake species in all of North America. Also the dangerous Australian funnel-web spiders Atrax robustus and Atrax formidibilis.

CREDITS Magazines: Defenders, Fauna, Field and Stream, National Geographic World, Monsters!, National Wildlife, Outdoor California, Pacific Discovery, Reptile & Amphibian, Reptiles, Response, Tyler Today, Vivarium, Wild Outdoor World, World & I, ZooView. Books: Audubon, Capstone, Chanticleer, Cornell University, Crabtree, Eagle Mountain, Falcon, Franklin Watts/Childrens Press, Grolier, Macmillan, Mosby-Year Book, National Geographic, Rourke, Selva, Tyndale House. Author/Photographer: Magazine and journal articles on venomous bites and stings; numerous newspaper articles on wildlife. Other: Brochures (Wilderness Medical Society), interpretive displays (Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Park Service, and Palm Springs Desert Museum), medical journals, postcards.

RELATED CREDENTIALS/SKILLS Photo/text packages available.

COMMENTS Images labeled with photographic conditions (wild, captive, controlled conditions, etc.), as well as accurate genus and species (exception: some invertebrates photographed in situ and not collected can only be accurately identified to family or genus).

NONEDITORIAL SERVICES Lectures and workshops on venomous bites and stings.