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Hello everyone! Episode Nine finds us both in and out of the water with photographer/herper Matt Sullivan. Two shows in a row where we dip ourselves in the drink to visit with fascinating creatures! We’ll have time to dry off before our next installment, but for the moment, we’ll talk with Matt about his experiences photographing both herps and cool aqua-creatures. Matt’s underwater camera housing is featured in photo left – an awesome rig.
Matt’s photography portfolio page is 9 Miles North (love the name). If you can, check it out before or during the podcast because we talk about some of the photos from his page.
Matt was also featured as Dive Photo Guide’s Photographer of the Week – pretty cool.
And he was a featured guest on the Wildlife Inspired YouTube channel – 10 Images With Matt Sullivan – I think you’ll enjoy a number of those episodes along with Matt’s.
During our conversation, we also talked about Monterey Bay, and Matt alerted me to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s channel on Instagram – mbari_news – where you can ogle ocean critters non-stop. Check it out!
Thanks for coming on the show Matt! I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation. And as always, thanks for listening everyone!
The show email is somuchpingle@gmail.com, and there’s also a So Much Pingle group on Facebook, for discussion, comments, feedback, suggestions, Nemo sightings, octopi versus octopusses, herp confessions, tips for herping better, etc.
Stay tuned for more episodes! And don’t forget to herp better!
-Mike
Hello everyone! For Episode Eight, we take a deep breath and submerge ourselves into the world of the Hellbender via a conversation with Nick Burgmeier. When it comes to cryptobranchids (hellbenders are in the family Cryptobranchidae, along with the Chinese and Japanese giant salamanders), Nick is a subject matter expert. I enjoyed talking with Nick on the subject, especially since he and his colleagues have made great progress in protecting Indiana hellbenders. Nick is featured in the photo at left, with a hellbender, which is inside the water snake he’s holding – we realize that even water snakes gotta eat, but why not a delicious bass?
Hello again everyone! Episode Seven features a conversation I had with Bob Ferguson, recorded in the New Jersey Pine Barrens last month. I got to spend some time in the field with Bob and he was nice enough to spend an hour or so putting down the interview. In the photo, Bob is on the left with me and Nate Nazdrowicz, taken at Snake Road in southern Illinois (back in the days when we could be in close proximity). In our conversation we talked about herping in both local and exotic locations, adventure travel, and we also touched on Bob’s calendar project. Bob’s been to some awesome places on the planet and it was fun to hear him talk about it. I think Bob’s energy and passion come shining through in this episode – he’s a pleasure to talk with and a heckuva nice guy.
Jill Rials is from Mesa, Arizona, and the critter she is holding is a smooth-fronted caiman (Paleosuchus trigonatus).
Andrew DuBois is from Lakewood, Colorado. Here he is enjoying a Pinocchio Anole (Anolis proboscis) in Ecuador.
Cynthia Samake lives near Santa Fe, New Mexico. In this photo she is sketching a leaf-mimic katydid in our Madre Selva field station.
Elizabeth (Liz) Hughes lives in Phoenix, Arizona and here she is with her first giant monkey frog (Phyllomedusa bicolor).
Justin Michels is from Pekin, Illinois. We herp in Illinois together quite often, and here he is with a large and thankfully tranquil diamondback water snake (Nerodia rhombifer).
Hello everyone, and welcome to Episode Five! In this episode I talk with Peter Mooney, a birder, world traveler, and herper from the era when it was called “snake hunting”. A New Jersey native, Mr. Mooney served his country in Vietnam, and afterwards he spent time in teaching school in Jasper County, South Carolina. Along the way he knew many of the old-school east coast herpers.
Hello everyone, and welcome to Episode Four! My apologies for being a few days late, I was doing some out-of-state herping. In New Jersey. And it was great! But that’s another story for another time.