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As of June 1, 2011 living in Little Rock, Arkansas. Time for a new chapter at a slower pace with lots of interesting things to learn and explore.

Formerly living in San Francisco for 12 years.

Just a big nerd who enjoys botany, ecology and photography. My two big interests are flowers/plants/orchids and graffiti/street art. I have a minor interest in skyscraper/urban scenes and food photography.

I've lived in San Francisco, Austin. I grew up in the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama, and was born in Bangor, Maine.

All of my work is available for licensing. I never accept "credit and a link" for commercial use of my work. Community based nonprofit and educational users please contact me - I'm almost always willing to donate images for educational purposes.

Also - I'm on Google+

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Here is my partner's Flickr if you're curious.

Three things will get you blocked instantly:

* Image awards

* Blatant self-promotion. Don't put "Nice image!" and a huge link to your own photostream or website on my photos

* If all your favorites are pornographic. I don't care to have my photos associated with porn.

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(Visiting Hong Kong makes all of China light up. China is on my list of places to visit, but as I was in Hong Kong before reunification with China, I really don't consider that I've really visited China proper. One day!)

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Groups (50 50)

Rare Plants & Flowers (Invite Only) 2,948 photos, 155 members
Nikon Botanical, Botanical Garden & Arboretum 2,027 photos, 96 members
Oxalis Group of International (Invite Only) 261 photos, 37 members
Aperture Users 197,083 photos, 9,396 members
Flowers All Around Us 38 photos, 14 members
NSS Cavers & Caving Photo Group 8,743 photos, 495 members
Arkansas wildflowers 784 photos, 46 members
ARKANSAS LANDMARKS AND HISTORIC PLACES 456 photos, 41 members
Arkansas State Parks 845 photos, 82 members
Campanulaceae 512 photos, 91 members
Liliaceae and its relatives 1,294 photos, 102 members
City Aerial Perspectives 2,612 photos, 238 members
Hosta (beautiful leaf & delicate flower ) 5 photos, 9 members
Stanhopea 224 photos, 21 members
Garvan Woodland Gardens 134 photos, 22 members
Seattle 125,354 photos, 6,888 members
Lotuses & Water Lilies ～ Flowers Only 106 photos, 30 members
Angel of Grief 395 photos, 184 members
Neon Signs 79,997 photos, 7,279 members
Arkansas 29,257 photos, 1,111 members
Railroad Bridges 11,756 photos, 1,735 members
State Capitols 7,672 photos, 789 members
DAYLILIES GALORE - The Magic of Hemerocallis 4,296 photos, 345 members
Little Rock 5,877 photos, 230 members
San Francisco Orchid Society 16 photos, 6 members
Orchid Photo of the Week 471 photos, 63 members
Pacific Orchid Exposition 2011 327 photos, 11 members
Miltonia 188 photos, 37 members
Crinum 84 photos, 29 members
The Tender 3,010 photos, 137 members
Genus Calceolaria 367 photos, 17 members
Laelia purpurata 285 photos, 40 members
Grevillea 182 photos, 19 members
Cattleya intermedia 314 photos, 34 members
Aristolochia 164 photos, 20 members
Orchids of Panama 112 photos, 37 members
Oak Trees: The Quercus Club 3,776 photos, 693 members
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill 476 photos, 83 members
Stick Figures in Peril 23,249 photos, 13,071 members
SFist 46,952 photos, 1,194 members
Poaceae (Gramineae) and allies 1,303 photos, 105 members
Vireyas 74 photos, 5 members
Clarkia 251 photos, 20 members
Mount Diablo, California 1,628 photos, 204 members
Wildflower Field Guide, North America 13,564 photos, 1,033 members
Sisyrinchium of California (Blue-Eyed Grass) 46 photos, 9 members
Rhamnaceae 219 photos, 27 members
Piperales 90 photos, 12 members
tidytips 81 photos, 21 members
Mimulus 811 photos, 61 members

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Testimonials (5)

Jhaan says:

"A Prince among orchid afficianados; an orchid "geek" of the highest order-do take a bow, Eric; AND one of the nicest people and first of the Flickr folks to come to my rescue on putting the scientific Latin-based names to my "photo"captured beauties, mostly orchids, carnivorous and flowering plants of the western highlands here in the Isthmus of Panama, of which I call home.
Eric has continued to delight me with his absolutely "drop-dead" gorgeous and extremely diverse collection of photos of his lovelies-all VERY well photographed, by the way.
If you love orchids, DO look to Eric's Flickr collection where you'll be led to his other website and resource list; his encyclopedic knowledge is essential to anyone wanting to venture deeper into the "rabbit's hole" of "Orchidom"; follow his lead and you're in for an exotic adventure ( ;~)>"

10th October, 2006
Chrissie2003 says:

"I especially like it when Eric has attended an orchid show and we get to see the orchids. It is obviouse he derives a great deal of pleasure from photography, his photos are excellent.
Eric is a very much appreciated co-admin of the very popular FLOWERS group, with an astounding knowledge of plants : ).
Thanks for sharing your wonderful photos, your time and your knowledge.
Yours in friendship, Chrissie"

10th June, 2006
Van in LA says:

"Eric has an astonishing encyclopedic knowledge of nearly every orchid that exists and an exquisite eye for photographing them.

At times, the images he has captured are breathtaking and achingly beautiful.

The treat is that these images are also identified and tagged. Family, genera, species, and cultivar, often with a credit for the hybridizer and grower too. This makes Eric's photostream a very useful database in addition to being a joy to browse.

As co-moderator of several groups with Eric, I have to say I'm impressed with his savvy and diplomatic skills - I can get a little brusque...

Thank you Eric, for your dedication, taste, eloquence, and for sharing these beautiful images!"

20th October, 2005
rawkFlickr says:

"I heart my Eric...his view of the world inspires a second look at all that surrounds you."

28th August, 2005
CharlieBrown8989 says:

"Although Eric is living in California. I never met him in person.

As a person born in Orchid Nation - Singapore. I have seen most Orchids collection in both Singapore Botanical Garden & Bandai Orchids Garden.

Eric Orchid collections is 2nd to none.

All his Orchids photos are superb!!

I encourage you to visit his site & learn from him."

5th June, 2005