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I spent 32 years at The University of Iowa between 1970 and 2002. In 2002 I retired and moved to Worcester, MA, with my wife Linda. I now enjoy nature photography and photograph almost all forms of nature, including birds, animals, insects, and plants. I post many pictures here. My wife is an artist and you can find a link to her home page below.

When I started birding in 1989 I decided to keep my life list by photographing the birds I saw. Below are links to five different albums. The first shows my life list of North American birds. Where possible I show both the male and female bird in the same picture. If the female looks different from the male and I don't have a picture with both birds in it, the male appears in my life list and the female appears in a separate list of female birds. I also have a separate life list of birds in flight. I have separate lists of Australian birds and Galapagos birds. Here are links to my five lists of birds:

Life list of North American Birds

Life list of North American Female Birds

Life list of North American Birds in Flight

Life list of Australian Birds

Life list of Galapagos Birds

The following link is to an album that shows my life list of dragonflies and damselflies. I show both male and female when I have photographed both sexes, and I also show a mating pair if I have photographed one.

Life List of Dragonflies and Damselflies

The following two links show my life lists of butterflies and moths. Just like birding, keeping track of how many different species I have seen has become a hobby.

Life list of Butterflies

Life list of Moths

Here is a Link to Linda's home page:

Linda's Home Page

I created all of the photo albums using a very old version of Jalbum. Each album opens to a page of thumbnails, and if you float your mouse over a thumbnail you will get information about the picture. If you click on a thumbnail you will see an enlarged picture. You can navigate to the next large picture by clicking on the right third of a picture; you can navigate to the previous large picture by clicking on the left third of a picture, and you can return to the thumbnails by clicking on the middle third of a large picture. The --> at the upper right of an album page starts a slide show of the album pictures.

My father, Joe Baron, was a teacher, a school principal, and an amateur photographer. He traveled widely in the 1930s and documented the many places he visited, mostly in Asia. Many of his pictures have historical significance, which is why I am putting them on the web. Here is a link to a page showing his photographs. Joe's travel pictures