Curious Critters Creating A Children's Picture Book

摘要

In June 2009, Sigma Pro director Dave Metz contacted me, requesting some wildlife images for full-page Sigma advertisements. He knew that I had been working on my first book. Animals of Ohio's Ponds and Vernal Pools (Kent State University Press, July 2011), so he figured I could send him images fairly easily. He then made an interesting- and at the time slightly disconcerting- request: would I please photograph the animals not within their natural settings but against white backgrounds?