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Photographing Frogs on my Birthday

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 And Other Things Northern Leopard Frog ( Lithobates pipiens ) Baie de les grenouilles, Lac Saint-François National Wildlife Area, Quebec, Canada. Ramsar site no. 361. For my birthday last year I went on an adventure to the Lac Saint-François National Wildlife Area , Quebec, Canada. Here I found frogs at the  Baie de les grenouilles ,  not just a few but a whole lot of the green buggers were jumping around and having a frogger of a time.  Northern Leopard Frog ( Lithobates pipiens ) Deep in the Duckweed It was summer time and one of my favourite times to go exploring but the mosquitoes were ou in full force. Damn those buggers and there weren't enough frogs or dragonflies to keep them at bay. But all in all it was a good visit the wildlife reserve. By the water gave a relief to the swarming bugs. In the water channel the much larger frogs could be found and sparse foliage of flowers including both Yellow and Blue Flag Irises. Nice to find some marsh flowers dotting the channel here

Publishing my Photos

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 Search for me on gettyimages.ca Monarch Caterpillar So very delighted to have 58 photos chosen for purchase on the gettyimages website. Here you can select high-resolution stock photography for sale at a variety of sizes. I am so very happy that this Canadian website has decided to feature my photography and offer a selection for purchase through their site. Most of the images chosen are nature specific because that is the subject matter I usually chose to follow. Only one image is none nature, a photograph of bubbles that I shot at home. Experiment with bubbles In the past I have been credited to have some of my photos chosen for publication but have not been any monetary price attached to such published images. I was so very honoured to have my first published photo selected by Ramsar: The Convention on Wetlands an international organization dedicated to the protection on Wetlands of International Importance . The image that was selected was of a Northern Green Frog photographed at