David FitzSimmons

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Curious Critters: Creating A Childen's Picture Book
David FitzSimmons  |  May 22, 2012  |  First Published: Apr 01, 2012  |  0 comments

In June 2009, Sigma Pro director Dave Metz contacted me, requesting some wildlife images for full-page Sigma advertisements. He knew that I had been working on my first book, Animals of Ohio’s Ponds and Vernal Pools (Kent State University Press, July 2011), so he figured I could send him images fairly easily. He then made an interesting—and at the time slightly disconcerting—request: would I please photograph the animals not within their natural settings but against white backgrounds?

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The Waterfalls Of Ohio; Seeking Out Secluded Landscapes
David FitzSimmons  |  Aug 01, 2009  |  0 comments

This emotional rush that comes with first seeing a waterfall—and then the incurable urge to find as many vantage points as possible around it—compelled me to begin documenting these secluded, sibilant landscapes. You see, I have always loved waterfalls. When I was younger, my parents loaded the three boys in the family station wagon, “the boat,” as we called it, pointed...

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