I have returned!  I have been away from deviantart and even photography for awhile now due to some family business.  I would like to thank all my fellow deviant artsters and friends who have visited my site recently, while I have been away.  Your continued feedback and evalautions of my images is very helpful and much appreciated.  I need to apologize to all who have recently visited my gallery during my absence, left comments or added me to their watch lists.  I would normally respond to each of you individually to thank you for your support, but unfortunately I will not have the time to get back to all 200+ messages.  I am back now and should be able to keep up with message activity in a more timely manner from this point on.  

I even returned to the wetlands this morning.  The heat of August tends to keep the crowds down in the wetlands and I can usually walk through and find some undisturbed gems of nature.  I will be loading a few new images from my wetlands walk this morning to my feature gallery.  I hope to start getting more images soon.  In the mean time, please look through my gallery and check out some of my favorite images from Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Red Rock Lakes Refuge, Airshows and zoo images and even a few shots of my house cats!