Amateur photographer, birder, traveler, and lifelong learner.

I love exploring new places and finding new subjects to photograph - especially National Park sites and National Wildlife Refuges.

Personal travel and birding goals include:

- Reaching 600 life birds by the end of 2022 (current: 589)

- Reaching 320 North Dakota life birds by the end of 2022 (current: 303)

- Visiting and photographing all 423 the U.S. National Parks/Monuments/Preserves, etc. (83/423)

- Visiting all of 556 U.S. National Wildlife Refuges

- Visiting all 50 states (47/50)