June 2010

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An international award-winning photographer, my passions are my cameras and wild things - birds, weeds, flowers and animals with an occasional bug or other creepy-crawly thrown in.

I would also classify myself as an educator and my special joy is teaching people, especially children, about the wonders of Mother Nature. This site feeds the teacher in me.

With over 15 years as a photojournalist, I have documented joys and tragedies, births and deaths. Nothing comes close, though, to the drama and serenity Mother Nature provides for us daily if we would only stop to look and listen. I frequently get sidetracked with the show she puts on for me, and in which I find a special joy capturing with my cameras.

I am also a Certified Domestic Pesticide Dispenser and have a BC Integrated Pest Management course under my belt as well. I have a background in management of a garden center, a job I loved as it combined my love of teaching, wild things and people.

This website is one that will never be finished. I have been shooting weeds and wildflowers digitally for over 10 years and have hundreds of thousands of images, but there are always more pictures to take, new plants to discover and new things to research about them. While this site, to date, is focused mainly on the plants and wild things I found in the Kelowna BC area, some are found everywhere in North America. I would love to be able to travel to the different parts of British Columbia to chronicle all our wonderful province has to offer.

I hope you have found this site beneficial, learned about the plants and birds in your neighbourhood and especially, that it has helped you to identify the noxious weeds and, through the links provided, learned how to deal with the invasive species. If my photos have provided a smile or an "oooh" or an "awww", please let me know.

If you live in the Kelowna area and have found a wild plant or bird not on this site, please contact me so I can add it.

PLEASE NOTE: All photos and graphics on this site are copyrighted and may not be used in any way without written permission. Please do not "borrow" them.

My photos are for sale as inspirational posters, frameable prints, calendars, greeting and postcards and on mugs, mouse pads and a lot of other items. If you see something you'd like ... 

Please email me at ...

sue *at* weedsandwildflowers *dot* info

Thanks for stopping by!