I'm a professional bird photographer from Reston, VA and I've been taking pictures most of my life beginning with a Brownie camera that my grandmother gave me. Since going digital I've been using professional Nikon gear (now predominantly the Z9 camera body with the 500mm f/4 lens). Many of my bird images can be found in a variety of bird guides from around the world, on the Internet's premier bird identification website www.whatbird.com, and in many of the iBird apps for mobile devices. I also enjoy using my images (including many outtakes) to further citizen science through iNaturalist and https://ebird.org/. Please visit my personal website https://www.jamesspitznas.com/ if you'd like to see more of my images.