-=In honor of my grandfather Barry Mansell who passed in early 2023, I've created Albums and a Collection to showcase some of his work. Since 2017 I worked on scanning his slides to digital and organizing his photographs to keep his 40,000+ image portfolio more manageable. He travelled around Florida, Georgia, Arizona and New Mexico with professors, biologists, and Fish & Wildlife documenting what they saw including extraordinary people such as Dr. Ab Abercrombie, Paul Moler, Randy Babb, and Johan Marais.

Since I am nowhere near the expert he was, only if I was certain he mislabeled an image would I correct it in my organizing and tagging. Should you believe any image is labelled incorrectly please let me know so I can fix it!=-

My grandfather instilled in me a passion for wildlife and nature as a child. His pictures in Ranger Rick, National Geographic, books, and museums is something I get to share with friends and family still to this day. I strive to bring the same passion for wildlife into my photography adventures as he did.

-Licensing-

All images are © All Rights Reserved. My grandfather’s photos are © Barry Mansell and my own are © Ben Thomas. To license one, email me with the “Ref:” line from the end of its description and how you’d like to use it.

What’s on Flickr is only a small part of what we have. His archive is over 40,000 images and mine is still growing, so if you need a species you don’t see here feel free to ask. Photos here are 2048 px, and full size files are available for licensed use.

Not available for AI training or datasets.

beornin90@gmail.com

-Primary Gear-

Nikon Z9

Nikon NIKKOR Z 180-600mm f/5.6-6.3 VR Lens

Nikon NIKKOR Z MC 105mm f/2.8 VR S Macro Lens

-Software-

DxO PureRAW 6 - Denoising and culling

Affinity Photo 2 - Main editing, corrections

fernKam - Digital asset managing, species tagging and Flickr exports