Glenn Stokes has been an avid photographer and Nikon user since 1963. Glenn started with the Nikon F2 and now is up to the F800. He has gone from the Kodachrome slide to 36.3mp digital image. Glenn has always liked macro best; however he has had a storied career in photography-- mostly amateur. He was a backup sideline sports photographer for the Gainesville Sun newspaper in Gainesville, FL. when he was a graduate student at the University of Florida. Glenn has won many amateur photo contests in Florida and Louisiana. He has accumulated over 50,000 slides, all filed in Kodak carousel trays, from trips to all 7 continents. At first reluctant to adopt digital, is now, one of its biggest fans. Glenn presently has over 120,000 saved digital images—mostly macros of plants; he now averages 2,000 new “keeper” digital images per week. On rare occasions, he has taken as many as 4,000 shots in a day. Needless to say, he has worn out several Nikon digital cameras. Photography and art—particularly of botanicals are his passion.
The launching of this website will make his outstanding photography available to the general public for the first time. In future months, Glenn intends to post scenics, travel destinations, people shots, animals, including insect shots and artistic impressions, and “what is it?” close-ups on other linked websites. Glenn just provided in (March 2012) 33 plant images to Cool Springs Press for a new book, Gardener’s Guide to Tropical Plants, by Nellie Neal. Glenn specializes in Botanical Gardens; he says he has never seen a botanical garden that he doesn’t like. After putting up individual plant images on this website, he intends to add pictures of journeys thru Botanical Gardens (photographed during the different seasons of the year). Glenn has made slide and PowerPoint presentations on plants, insects and travel destinations to audiences throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Caribbean countries. He is now working on an Apple app for the I phone on tropical plants.