I'm just a young gal who spends a lot of night hours harmlessly catching and photographing moths and the sort. It's a hobby/love of mine. I love anything naturalism and science, (that includes paleontology, geology, meteorology, zoology) but I'm also a special effects artist (CGI/Animation) a "normal" artist (paint, sculptures, etc) and I run a farm of "exotic" and rare breed chickens as well as some ducks and I take care of some greenhouses filled with plants that normally don't grow in our damp, cloudy environment. Well, some could, but, they're still not your average veggies.

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Testimonials

Illia Chavez has impressed me greatly. She appears to have a nearly limitless capacity to study a topic deeply and intensely, and come up with a thorough knowledge of the subject. She also took the time to go through nearly all of my moth catalogue and help me with identification for each moth individually. For … Read more

Illia Chavez has impressed me greatly. She appears to have a nearly limitless capacity to study a topic deeply and intensely, and come up with a thorough knowledge of the subject. She also took the time to go through nearly all of my moth catalogue and help me with identification for each moth individually. For that I thank her, and I commend you to look over her wonderful catalogue of images that she has taken the time and care to document.

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August 30, 2008