About Me
Hi! I’m Jackson. I am a young enthusiast who is always learning and always exploring! With my macro lens I photograph insects, spiders, and other hidden life in the leaf litter—sharing the tiny details most people never notice. There is nothing I enjoy more than pointing my camera at an insect and snapping the shutter. And sharing those photos I take is why I take them. I am a Christian, and I believe that there is a God who made every little Insect with divine attention to detail and a creativity that puts the greatest architects and artists that ever lived to shame. That design and detail is what I attempt to share on this website.
I am also very into identifying the insects and other arthropod relatives I find. I love sharing the knowledge I have gained about arthropods with you and educating the public about these sadly overlooked, mistrusted, and often hated little critters. While I make all arthropods my study, I do have specific areas of expertise. The vast majority of my knowledge is currently restricted to insects, and inside of that I classify myself as a Dipterist (fly expert). I would love to branch out more, but I am currently putting most of my time into studying flies and identifying them online.
I take a lot more photos than I display here, but I post pretty much all of them that can be identified to iNaturalist. See my iNat account. I am also an editor for one of, if not the most, scientifically accurate website for North American Arthropods. See my BugGuide account. I identify thousands of other peoples’ photos on both of these sites, and they have have been invaluable in my journey of knowledge from a complete amateur to what I am today. I found that the best way to learn the insects is to simply start identifying them. As soon as I started researching specific insects to identify for other people, I had a foothold from which to branch out into the rest of the class. I usually didn’t have to make a conscious effort to learn names and relationships; I just picked them up as I went, and then using that new knowledge to identify photos was an essential part of cementing them in my mind.
To see my photography methods and setup, see my Materials and Methods page…
