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| I've been an amateur photographer since high school. I started like many others by taking a photography class and then I went on to work for the school yearbook. While still in high school I spent one summer working in a portrait studio and quickly decided that the crying children and fussy parents end of photography wasn't the direction I wanted to go. After a brief military experience, I went to work for a special events company. Two great things happened to me there. I met my wife and I began to use my camera to document the work we did. The job also provided many opportunities for travel and I soon learned that what I truly liked was combining my love for the outdoors and photography. |  |
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That love of the outdoors was one of the things that Debbie and I had in common. It was also one of the things we tried to instill in our daughters. The first was born in 1985 and the second in 1988. At times, I toyed with the idea of making nature photography more than just an avocation. My pictures made for nice family presents but I dreamed of having my photographs appreciated by others with perhaps a more critical voice. To that end I began building a darkroom in my garage. It was not to be. That same year my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. |
Debbie had a bone marrow transplant in 1990 that gave us a precious four more years. When she passed in 1994, I went back to school and got a bachelors degree in history and a masters in special education with the goal of being a teacher. Going to school, and then later teaching, gave me the opportunity to spend more time with my daughters and do the kind of travel that had become a tradition with us. It renewed my love of the outdoors and photography. I began drawing with a computer early in my education career simply because I could not find the kind of images I wanted for my students. Then I switched to digital photography and have not been able to stop clicking since. |
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I began EduPic in 2006 as a way to share my work with other teachers and their students. As of this writing, I am an instructional technology integrator with Chesterfield County in Virginia, teaching science and special education. I love what I do. It is the best of teaching. I have the opportunity to work with a great number of dedicated educational professionals and get to teach children in different grade levels and various schools. | |
| I am also a very proud father of two amazing young women. My eldest daughter has followed her dream and is a graduate student in animal behavior and entomology at a university on the west coast. Many of the insect and nature photographs on EduPic were taken on field outings with her. My youngest is working toward an undergraduate degree in women's studies at a university here in the east. She is a dedicated social activist and a skilled writer. |  |
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I try to add photographs and drawings to EduPic as often as I can. I do have plans to address the disparity between science and the other disciplines. I will soon add a contributors' section as my colleagues have told me they have images they want to share. If you want to use my images for publication, please email me. I have happily granted permission for all the requests that I have received to date. I love getting emails telling me that you enjoyed my images or appreciate this site. I make no money from EduPic and all of the costs come out of my pocket, so any word of gratitude is greatly valued. | |
| Thank you for visiting EduPic. |
| List of Publications: | ||
| NSF, "Walter Leal discusses the mechanisms surrounding the sex pheromones of Japanese beetles.", Press Release 08-106 - Video, June 24, 2008 |
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| MSNBC, Technology & Science, "Masters of Disguise", April 28, 2008 | ||
| Realitatea TV, "Energie din apă de ploaie", February 27, 2008 | ||
| "What road in life are you taking?", Bethel Baptist Church, Kansas City, 2008 | ||
| La Vanguardia, "La Arquitectura de la Biodiversidad", September 30, 2007 |
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| "Mustangs on the Beach, The Wild Horses of Currituck", 2005 | ||
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