This site is an appendage to the website of meteorology for biologists.  It is a sort-of “freebie”  intended to add value to lecture material in the meteorology for biologists course.  While there is no obvious relation between the two subjects, it is material that is certainly relevant to every biologist who does any field work, and is material that is not often taught in conventional biology programs.  Yet everyone has a camera today, though many people only have a cell phone camera, and only a fraction of biologists ever become serious about photography.   Why?

This site will provide some motivation for why photography remains important – if that isn’t already obvious to biologists and field scientists of related disciplines.  It also provides basic guidence on how to take better photos – from a scientist’s perspective.

The material here does not pretend to be a self-contained nature photography course.  A tremendous amount of material can be found today online (or in photo books) on virtually any aspect of photography.  The material presented here should be supplemented by such online content.

Proceed to the short course material.