By the time my family moved to the high plains, I was seven years old, expert packer and obliging passenger of long distance trips. From the backwater oil country of east Texas to the barren wastelands of west Texas, to the endless sea of Kansas prairie, my formative years were spent moving from one dusty little town to another. 

They lacked refinement to be sure but these places shaped me all the same, their plainness, intuition, resilience, and deep sense of tradition. 

It is by no coincidence such elements are of particular interest to me in the images I make or that conservation should be at the fore of my concerns.

Naturalists Arise exists to fulfill several goals:

First to reorient man back to his call as caretaker of Creation.

Secondly, to share my love of nature journaling with others and recruit Ambassadors to establish and maintain successful Nature Clubs.

And last of all, to share the stories of rising naturalists who have accepted the call to steward Creation well.

We arise by returning to our roots.