Copyright 2000-2011 by Thomas Zinneman.  All rights reserved.

This site is a culmination of the author's current interests in digital photography and the outdoors. The site's ultimate purpose is to provide assistance in the identification of plants and wildlife commonly found in the South Florida area.

The site was developed by the author using Microsoft's FrontPage.  It was first published in the year 2000. Because Microsoft no longer supports Front Page, I switched to a program called WebPlus X4, produced by Serif, an English Company.  The switchover to the new revised site was made in September, 2010.

Since many of the images on the gallery pages of the Front Page version were quite old, I didn’t transfer them to the new site.  Instead, I will gradually add newer images to the Gallery pages.

I’m currently using a Canon EOS 7D camera.  My workhorse lens is the Canon EF-L 100-400mm, which I have been using since 2003.  It is a great lens, image stabilized  and is about the largest you can use without a tripod. I shoot in the RAW mode and convert the images to TIFF (for printing) or JPEG for web use.  Images displayed on this site have been reduced in size to around 720 x 540 pixels and the jpg quality adjusted to keep the file size around 100 kilobytes.

The site is usually updated on a weekly basis with a summary of any field trips taken and photographs of new species and/or additional photographs of those species represented.  All costs associated with maintaining the site are paid for by the author.  No income is derived from the site.  The author, Tom Zinneman, can be reached at tzinneman@comcast.net.