Greg Shchepanek

 The Disappearing Monarch Monarch Butterfly ( Danaus plexippus ) Jack Pine Trail, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Conservation Status: imperiled (S2N,S4B) in Ontario, CA (NatureServe). Taken July 20, 2018. Once bountiful and ever present, is a thing of the past for the Monarch Butterfly as it slowly disappears from the landscapes of North America. Once every year I could visit a location and was sure to find my beloved Monarchs doing their thing. Even with some years a more proliferation of the butterflies was witnessed but sadly this has all come to an end and with only one single sighting this year in Alleyn-et-Cawood, Québec where the species once had a stronghold in the Milkweed fields. One could venture to the Arboretum in downtown Ottawa and find the Monarchs in full flutter on the varieties of flora arrangements of the gardens. Here I will look at the presence of the Monarch Butterfly over the past five years noting that documentation of the butterfly has fallen and 2022 mark...

 Photos on my Flickr Site Eastern Chipmunk ( Tamias striatus ) on the Jack Pine Trail, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It would seem that the squirrel photos are winning the most interesting standing on my Flickr site. I know that people are very fond of the squirrels that I have photographed especially the Red Squirrels that I seem to find on all my adventures into the wilderness. But the question is what makes a photograph interesting ? I can see most favourite has a quantitative value that measures the favourability of the photographs but who decides on the most interesting ? I will share with you some of the photos and if you would like to comment then please do I am very interested to see what you think and find interesting about these photos selected by my photo site. So here we go with the most interesting photos selected by Flickr. Eastern Gray Squirrel Black Phase ( Sciurus carolinensis ) Britannia Conservation Area, Mud Lake, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. A Green Candy from Asia at...

 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 photographe...