Great Blue Heron Feeding Young framed and matted photograph donated by Matthew Lerman. Overall size 17" x 21".

Matthew, born with a camera in hand, was encouraged by Mom & Dad to take family photos using a box-shaped Kodak point and shoot camera equipped with large and cumbersome magnesium wire-filled flash bulbs. Early on Matthew realized that beyond those family snap shots existed an awesome and breathtaking natural world filled with wonders infinitely more powerful than family portraits. This realization helped the young photographer focus his vision onto the natural world and before too long, voilà; a photographer-naturalist-biology professor was created.