Hi. I have been visiting Newton, Pope, and Johnson Counties in Arkansas for 50 years. My first trip to the Buffalo, Big Piney, and Mulberry country was in spring 1964. I have been captivated by the streams, forests, wildlife ever since. I primarily photograph birds but am learning to stalk and photograph all wildlife, plants, flowers, and scenery. I have just retired.
I am moving to the Buffalo River country in a couple of years and will be exploring it with you with near daily weblog posts and plenty of high quality pictures.
Hi, what is your policy on using your pictures on blogs, sites, newsletters, etc? I would love to add your pictures of a bluebird in flight for a short article that our Soil and Water Conservation District is writing for our website newsletter. Thank you!
You have my permission for use of the bluebird photos. Regards, Steve
Hey Steve,
It’s nice to meet you and I dig your blog as well. I can see I’m going to spend a lot of time catching up on your posts! I see you really love the Buffalo River area of the Ozarks. I’d love to make some trips further south and I am planning on it.
Twenty years at Alpine, huh!? Wow, that is a good stretch. I admit, I spend most of my dough at Cabela’s but I have enjoyed visiting your store when I have had the opportunity. Are you still working there now?
Bill
I love your website! We just moved to Shiloh mtn, and I am a painter. I will be bookmarking your website and checking out your beautiful photos – amazing pics of the animals & birds. Thanks!
Thank you. It’s my plan to keep on posting information and photos every week. I appreciate you viewing. Steve
Hi Steve, I continue to watch your fb page and this page for all the wonderful photography and information you share. I am openning a jewelry business on Etsy this fall and I was inspired by all the colors of the Tanager Bird species because of your pictures. My granddaughter drew a Paradise tanager for my logo. It is very nice. Would you mind if I used a few of your bird photos in conjunction with my jewelry? I told my husband that you are teaching me so much about birds and the lovely area you photograph. Dale and I are going to take a trip next spring to the Boston Mountains. Any thoughts on a good campground with a view in your area. I don’t want much do I. LOL. Oh my business name is going to be Paradise Blue Beads.
sure Kathy.
Yes, Steele Creek Campground near Ponca; just off Highway 74, between Jasper and Ponca
The Mucking Moms LOVE your blog and have nominated you for the Versatile Blog Award. Check out all the details at http://muckingmoms.com/2013/01/17/blog-award/. One of us is from Pope County and one recently moved from Johnson County to Yell County (the other is from Perry). It’s so cool to see our state in all of it’s natural beauty!!!
Glad I found your blog. I went to U of A Fayetteville many years ago and enjoyed canoe trips down the Buffalo with various campus groups. It is a beautiful area of the country.
Thanks Mary, I’ll try to keep it up to date; i am retiring there in a few months. Steve
Hi, Steve-
I just came across your blog and great wildlife photos looking for a yellow-bellied sapsucker image to use on an interpretive sign at the botanical garden where I work. Might I be able to use yours from the Jan. 2012 post?
Thanks, Lisa Wagner, SC Botanical Garden
Thanks Lisa, you may use the photo if you like. Thanks for reading the BLOG too. Regards, Steve
Just bought a new camera to support my birding hobby, blog and website I’m building. I look forward to seeing your photos.
Well, we will have a lot of information to exchange; I now have 9 houses in my bluebird trail; fledged 38 with my 3 homes im 2012. Thanks for looking at my BLOG, Steve
Hi Steve! (It’s Red from Buffalo River Diaries 1.0 ~ I lost your eMail address ~ please contact me about Big Creek!) (At the Buffalo River Diaries gmail.) There’s a petition and a FaceBook page and it could use your support and a mention on your blog. Thanks! ~ Red
http://www.change.org/petitions/the-state-of-arkansas-keep-america-s-first-national-river-the-buffalo-river-clean-and-pristine
http://www.facebook.com/KeepTheBuffaloNationalRiverCrapFree
I sure will. Thanks Red, Regards, Steve3
Steve,
Keith from Arkansas State Parks Exhibit Shop here. Would like to talk to you about using several of your images in large scale for art work in our cabins at Lake Fort Smith State Park. Please contact me at keith.martin@arkansas.gov
Thanks
Sent you an email Keith. Thanks, Steve
Hi Steve, I am working on a book on woodpeckers and would like to chat with you about your Red-headed Woodpeckers. I can be reached at 206-940-7835 or by email at paul.bannick at gmail.com
Will email you today. Steve
Hi Steve, Fotograma from the waiting room at St.Lukes lab.
Just checking out the pics. U have some really great shots.
Aw thanks; nice to meet you this morning. I enjoyed our talk, Yours, Steve
We were looking into buying some land southwest of Jasper, and your posts have inspired us to go ahead and buy a plot. The buffalo watershed greatly benefits from people like you, who are both experienced and knowledgeable, to showcase it in such a beautiful light. Keep doing what you’re doing, thanks!
Oh !! thanks so much; I was just thinking that it was not worth the effort; but that makes me want to go on Sam; Yours, Steve
I would love to post some of your photos on our FB page. You have quite the touch and I really like the areas and subject matter in many of our photos.
HI Steve, I do not have any words for the Fall pics you have posted. Awsome is too tame. I keep meeting nice people in the waiting rooms at St. Luke’s. Yesterday while waiting for our husbands to get a heart procedure, I met a nature lover and told her about your site. I know she will enjoy it as much as we do. Thanks for posting Mother Nature, Joan H.
Does anyone know why there hasn’t been an entry since October?
I had health issues but will begin posting again in late January, Steve
Very sorry to hear this Steve! Hope you are doing better! Really enjoy your blog!!
We are putting in a road on our land, and wanting to do some early spring camping there. It’s all woods. Do you have any favorite wildlife or flowers for us to try and spot on our trips up there, March and April?
Yes. first in February (later this month) there will be Harbinger, Witch Hazel, and Bluets. In March, Johnny Jump Ups, Spring Beauties, trilliums, and trout lilies, bloodroots, and redbud. By April, a whole array of flowers will be popping out: spiderwort, sand phlox. sweet william, toothwort, mayapples, crested iris, bluebells, fire pinks, solomons seal, to name a few. If your lucky you may see a yellow lady slipper towards the end of the month.
I will google all of those because they all (except bluebells) are new to me! Thanks!
It is “a coupla” years since you wrote the “about”. Have you moved yet? Did you have your retirement home all picked out? Are ticks and pigs a problem. I remember, at age nine, spending a bit of time in some trees …. those scrawny sharp toothed razor backed tuskers seemed hungry. ‘Course age nine was fifty five years ago. π I am enjoying your photos a great deal. it seems each picture (that I have viewed so far) has a memory attached, though they are all your own recent photos. Peace, Bear
Great pictures and info Steve. I’m going through the area soon and would like to ask you some questions. Please email me if you can. Thanks!
Hi Steve, I’m an avid amateur photographer and nature lover. Kathy Gabrielson recently told me about your blog and sent me a link via FB. I’m really looking forward to seeing your photos and reading about your wonderful encounters with wildlife.
Hey Steve, I am a student at the University of Arkansas. I ran across your blog today, I really enjoyed it. Do you mind emailing me at mra009@uark.edu?
Thanks.
Steve, thanks for posting your great pictures. I really enjoyed looking. I stumbled upon your blog after I googled for titmouse and your photo stood out!
best, Ken Fairfax VA π
(a-very-cute-tufted-titmouse-in-my-backyard)
Missing your great photography! Spent several days last spring in the Jasper area hiking some of the trails and seeing the river again. Your photography inspired to head back to the mountains when I am in the state. Thanks!.