New Book in press
“Chameleons” due Spring 2012 by the Natural History Museum, London and Princeton University Press, New Jersey. In collaboration with Nick Garbutt. Please visit the “Chameleons” gallery for a preview of some of the illustrations from this book. Chameleons are the most charismatic of all the lizards. Although they are objects of fear and superstition in some [...]
Asian tree hole frogs
This is a short note about a couple of frogs from South East Asia that are rarely seen or photographed. The narrow-mouthed frogs, Microhylidae, include over 300 species in 69 genera, distributed throughout the warmer parts of the world but notably in Madagascar, New Guinea and South East Asia, where diversity within the family is [...]
Photographing extinct species
This is something that none of us ever want to do but, if you photograph enough frogs, sooner or later one of them is likely to become extinct: an estimated 30% of all amphibian species are likely to be lost forever in the next 50 years. For instance, in 1985 on my first trip to [...]