THE FILE 5,000 35mm and growing rapidly, also available as JPEGs at customer's preferred resolution.

OVERVIEW Gardening, landscaping, native plants, wildlife, people, travel, home how-to.

GARDENING & LANDSCAPING Emphasis on plant portraits and how-tos, often detailed step-by-step. Strong in plant combinations, hardscaping and garden critters.

NATIVE PLANTS Northeastern, primarily.

WILDLIFE Garden critters, including insects, small rodents, birdfeeding, and deer/deer deterrents. Mainly northeastern United States.

HOME HOW-TO Stock strongest in tasks related to landscaping/gardening and to wood heating, such as environmentally sensitive chainsaw use, wood splitting, chimney-flue cleaning, sawbuck construction. A 25-year career as a home how-to editor helps anticipate editorial photo needs in this and other areas.

TRAVEL Northeastern United States, California, Germany.

PEOPLE Gardening authors, arborists and other horticultural professionals. Horse-trainer and author Alexandra Kurland. Ann Edie, an inspiring blind woman, and her remarkable guidehorse, Panda. Singer-songwriter Harry Chapin.

SPECIALTIES Gardening, nature, people, travel, how-tos.

GEOGRAPHIC AREAS Northeastern United States, California, Germany.

RECENT COVERAGE Faces in Nature: Human, animal and demonic faces that startlingly emerge from rock outcrops, tree trunks, tree roots, snow, shadow and leaf patterns. A small selection appears on my Image portfolio here on AGPix.

PHOTOGRAPHIC PLANS Gardens, nature preserves and nurseries (and their gurus). Also, many gardening projects, including before-and-after gardens, and design and construction of sawbucks, garden arbors, cold frames, etc.

CREDITS Since 1999, licensed more than 1,900 photo uses: Magazines: Country Living, Family Circle, Fine Gardening, Garden Design, Garden Gate, Gardening How-To, Horticulture, Horticulture’s Garden Style, Hudson Home & Garden, Mother Earth News, National Geographic Traveler, Native Plants, Orion, Parade, Ranger Rick, Small Gardens, and publications of major botanical gardens. Books: Solo photographer of five books. Images also licensed to Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Cool Springs Press, Creative Homeowner, Meredith, Rodale Press, Storey Books; currently contracted to shoot a book on tree planting and care; recently photographed two kids’ books: Gardening by Kids(in production) and Panda: A Guide Horse for Ann, about a miniature horse that guides an amazingly self-reliant blind woman.

RELATED CREDENTIALS/SKILLS Magazine Writing: American Forests, Backpacking Journal, Backyard Solutions, Camping Journal, Consumer's Research, Family Handyman, Harrowsmith Country Life, Home Mechanix, Homeowner How-to, Hudson Home & Garden, Mother Earth News, Outdoor Life, Popular Science, Small Gardens, Smart Homeowner, Travel. Adult Book Writing: Heating Your Home with Wood, Chainsaw Savvy, How to Drive to Prevent Accidents. Children’s Book Writing: Christmas at Our House; More Than Just a Flower Garden (concept developer/producer) and More Than Just a Vegetable Garden. Editorial: Editor, Creative Homeowner and Taunton Books; editorial director, Grolier Book Clubs and Grolier Enterprises. Author/agent with contracts on some 40 adult and children’s nonfiction titles to Abrams, Andrews and McMeel, Career Press, Crown, Knopf, Meredith, Prentice Hall, Scholastic and Wiley.

COMMENTS Prefer outdoor photography in available light, though softening direct sunlight by means of passing clouds or diffusion panels. For studio work, prefer to manipulate greenhouse daylight. Assignments welcome.