Rapture best describes my connection to Colorado and the Rocky Mountains, and photography is just a symptom. I never set out to be a photographer though. When I was a kid I liked to wander through wild places in search of strange creatures. I saw so many amazing things, that when I was a teenager my dad gave me an old, vintage Canon to capture it all. It evolved from simple documentation to art, and that old film camera with not so much as auto-focus taught me the right way to make photographs. I grew up in New Jersey, Missouri, and Germany (yep, a military brat). A trip to the Rockies when I was 16 forever infused me with the desire to live here. A few years later while serving in the Army, I was sent on a few assignments in some stunning and inspiring locations out west. Those experiences settled that it was time to go west as soon as possible, and that would happen right after college. I majored in Wildlife Biology at the University of Missouri, which is still my passion. I currently live in one of my favorite places on earth, Fort Collins, Colorado.

Today I’m a biologist, film-maker, and photographer. My photos have won awards and been published, and my films are used by conservation organizations.

I've judged the following photo competitions:
-Boulder County Fair
-Amphibian Ark International Photo Competition
-St. Vrain Photo Society Annual Photo Competition

I’ve just completed production of my independent, 5-episode nature documentary. Through my films and photography I hope to increase awareness of the importance to preserve Earth’s wild places.

May adventure find you today, Bryan
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One of my biggest ecological concerns is the Amphibian Chytrid epidemic that’s sweeping across the planet and eradicating entire species in as quickly as a few months. Over 130 frog species have already been wiped out in only the past few decades by Chytrid. Chytrid is a human spread fungus that spreads through water systems, can be transmitted between animals, and can survive in the substrate. Once it embeds in the skin of a susceptible amphibian, the skin thickens and the animal dies. As Chytrid sweeps through an area, it quickly kills mass numbers of amphibians who have no defense against the exotic pathogen. In Colorado, the Boreal Toad is a notable species affected by Chytrid. We don’t know how to stop Chytrid yet, and there are currently critically endangered species with too few individuals left to breed in the wild that will soon be extinct. Our only hopes are to concentrate on research, and to preserve captive breeding colonies of dwindling species in an Ark situation, which may be reintroduced after a solution has been found. To learn more about Chytrid, or to support finding a solution, please visit my friends at Amphibian Ark.