For information about usage of Jeff Ripple's Florida stock photography,
please contact him at:

Jeff Ripple
HC61, Box 16
Ochopee, FL 34141
Telephone: (239) 695-2532
Email: jeffripple@earthlink.net

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Jeff Ripple
52388 Tamiami Trail
Ochopee, FL 34141
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Jeff's stock of Florida photographs has been compiled over the last ten years during the course of writing and photographing natural history articles and books focused on Florida. He was a significant contributor to the new Chanticleer Press Audubon Field Guide to Florida, as well as other Chanticleer guides. Publication credits include The New York Times, Outside, Outdoor Explorer, Backpacker, Men's Fitness, Wildlife Conservation, Sail, Ocean Realm, BBC Wildlife, Birder's World, and Defenders, among others. Work has also been used in calenders, postcards, educational programs and displays, CD and tape covers, murals and video discs by Impact Photographics, BrownTrout Publishers, World Disc/Nature Recordings, The John G. Shedd Aquarium (Chicago, Il), Florida Museum of Natural History, The Museum of Science and Industry (Tampa, FL), The National Audubon Society, The Nature Conservancy, The Sierra Club, National Park Service, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, among others. My work reflects a devotion to protecting Florida's natural environment, the magic of the light on its landscape, and a reverence for its plants and creatures. I do not photograph on game farms.

File

Jeff has approximately 10,000 35mm and several hundred 4x5 images of Florida scenics, wildlife, plants, geology, aerials, and environmental degradation. Wildlife images include birds (mainly wading birds, shore birds, owls, and some raptors), mammals, herpatofauna, and invertebrates (insects, snails, crabs, sponges, anemones, etc). Most of the images are photographed with natural light. Fujichrome Velvia is his primary film, with some Kodachrome 25, Kodachrome 64, and Fujichrome 100 Professional included as well. The file is tightly edited and of high quality.

Coverage

Jeff has excellent coverage of the following ecosystems and major geographic regions: cypress swamps, mangrove swamps, freshwater marshes, saltwater marshes, near shore habitats (sponges), tidal mud flats, tropical hardwood hammocks, temperate hammocks, springs, rivers, dunes (Atlantic and Panhandle regions), pine forests, oak scrub, sandpine scrub, pitcher plant bogs, Lake Wales Ridge, Lake Okeechobee, The Everglades, Big Cypress Swamp, The Ten Thousand Islands.

He also have photographs of rare and endangered wildlife such as snail kites, Key deer, Liguus tree snails, red-cockaded woodpeckers, Florida scrub jays, crested caracaras, and others. His stock of rare and endangered plants is also extensive.

Coverage of Natural Areas by Region

Jeff has excellent transparencies from these specific locations in Florida:

Panhandle
Apalachicola National Forest, Torreya State Park, Florida Caverns State Park, Falling Waters State Park, St. George Island State Park, Grayton Beach SRA, St. Joseph Peninsula State Park, Gulf Islands National Seashore, and The Nature Conservancy's Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve.

North Florida
Manatee Spring State Park, O'Leno State Park, Paynes Prairie State Preserve, San Felasco Hammock State Preserve, River Rise State Preserve, Devil's Millhopper State Geological Site, Ichetucknee Springs State Park, Suwannee River State Park, Suwannee River State Park, Stephen Foster State Folk Cultural Center, Amelia Island State Recreation Area, Big Talbot Island State Park, Little Talbot Island State Park, Washington Oaks State Gardens, Osceola National Forest (including Big Gum Swamp Wilderness Area), Pinhook Swamp, Ocala National Forest (including Juniper Prairie, Billies Bay, and Alexander Springs Wilderness Areas), Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge, and Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuge, and properties managed by the Suwannee River Water Management District.

Central Florida
Lake Kissimmee State Park, Highlands Hammock State Park, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Canaveral National Seashore, Archbold Biological Station, Hillsborough River State Park, Holmes Avenue Site (scrub managed by FGFWFC), other sites on the Lake Wales Ridge.

South Florida
Everglades National Park, Big Cypress National Preserve, Jonathan Dickinson State Park, Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge, Blowing Rocks Preserve, Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve, Collier-Seminole State Preserve, John D. MacArthur State Park, J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Cayo Costa State Park, Myakka River State Park.

The Florida Keys
Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Key Largo Hammocks State Botanical Site, John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, Long Key State Recreation Site, Lignumvitae Key State Botanical Site, Bahia Honda State Park, The Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges, The Nature Conservancy's Torchwood Hammock and Terristritus Preserves.

Other U.S. Areas
Jeff has quality coverage of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Missouri Ozarks (Johnson's Shut-Ins on the East Fork of the Black River, Elephant Rocks State), and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.