
I’m a biologist, wildlife photographer & expedition host who has spent the last 12+ years with a job most people dream about: traveling the world. I write about the animals I meet, the places they live, and what it takes to find them.
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Here, I barely have time to think. Everything happens too fast, I have to lean on instinct, on years of expeditions before this one. The water is cold, but not freezing. I check myself as If I was my own dive buddy “fins ok”, “weights ok",...
I’m Maya. I’m a biologist who became a wildlife photographer, and this is where I write the parts that don’t fit in a photograph.
Most of what you see online from people like me is the frame that worked. What I want to write here is the re...
There is a moment I keep coming back to.
I was on a call with a client, going through the usual questions about dates and logistics, when she said something almost in passing: that she had seen my work months earlier, saved it, and kept co...
The humidity is absolute. I’m sweating, and I can’t stop thinking about the waterfall waiting for us in an hour, but for now, all I can do is wait.
I’m writing this sitting on the floor of the dense Amazon Rainforest, covered by dead leave...
I know it can be many things. But personally, as I started feeling drawn to this subject, I began seeking advice from highly successful people in their fields and I kept discovering things I wasn’t applying to my own life.
The common threa...
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