I spent a very enjoyable week at home in Virginia visiting my family. (I also spent a beautiful morning photographing butterflies at Wakefield Park in Fairfax County, VA, and I’m including a few pictures here.) As I write this, I’m on a plane from Washington, DC to Los Angeles. Tonight, I’m getting on another plane [...]
As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been working on updating my main photo website, www.neillosin.com. The last time I updated the site was when I added photographs taken in Uganda in February 2009. Not surprisingly, there were a lot of new pictures to be added this time — over 200, in fact, representing [...]
Just a couple of quick updates re: previous blog posts. On May 13, I wrote about the America’s Birdiest County competition. At that time, we knew that LA County birders had tallied a massive 271 species in one weekend, which would surely put us in contention for the title “America’s Birdiest County.” The official results [...]
I had the pleasure of spending Monday morning photographing with Judd Patterson at Matheson Hammock Park in South Miami. I’ve admired Judd’s photography for several years, but I hadn’t met him in person until the Biscayne National Park BioBlitz last month. Judd is a really nice person, and a terrific photographer too. In the words [...]
The introduction and proliferation of species outside their historical ranges is recognized as a major threat to biological diversity. The problem of “invasive species” has become well known outside the scientific community, although many people are hard-pressed to identify even the most conspicuous invasive species in their area. For example, most people I talk to [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I was selected to be an Associate Member of the International League of Conservation Writers (iLCW). When the iLCW’s formation was announced late last year, it sounded like the kind of organization that I’d like to be involved with, so I applied for membership. In this blog, as many of [...]
Apologies for the protracted silence! I returned to Miami on Sunday from a short trip to Puerto Rico, and I just moved into my “permanent” field home (Nate Dappen‘s house) yesterday. My field assistants and I met our goal of returning to Miami with 48 male crested anoles (Anolis cristatellus), which are now getting used [...]
I just finished my cross-country drive to Miami for my 2010 field season. Luckily, I was able to split the driving with my two field assistants, Miles Meyer and James Liu. Twenty-eight hundred miles is a lot of ground to cover! We didn’t have time to stop, but I can’t help but look for wildlife [...]
My friend and frequent collaborator Nate Dappen has started his own blog here on daysedgeproductions.com. Nate’s interests and mine are pretty similar, both artistically and scientifically. He’ll be using his blog to post regular updates from the field (he’s currently studying some really interesting lizards in Spain’s Pityuses archipelago) and other items of interest. Be [...]
Hello, everyone! My name is Neil Losin, and I’m a biologist, photographer, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, CA. In my “day job,” I’m working on my Ph.D. in UCLA’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, studying the evolution of territorial behavior in lizards. When I’m not doing science, I take photographs of nature (especially [...]