Journal of Biocommunication Showcase
A Celebration of the Photographic
Work of Charles "Chip" Hedgcock

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Charles "Chip" Hedgcock has combined his love of the outdoors with more than 30 years of experience photographing in medicine, the life sciences, and fine arts. His goal has always been to create a unique vision of the natural world. He is best known for his images that explore nature and the natural world.

Chip has worked as a medical photographer at the University Medical Center at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ, and as a Senior Research Specialist, and chief photographer for the Division of Neurobiology at the University of Arizona.

Later, Chip became a photographer for the University of Arizona's Department of Entomology. Since 2009, Chip has been the lead photographer for the Madrean Archipelago Biodiversity Assessment, a program of the environmental organization, The Sky Island Alliance. The program, now called Madrean Discovery Expeditions, continues under the auspices of greatergood.org.

Chip holds a BA degree from the Brooks Institute of Photography. He is a Registered Biological Photographer and a Fellow of the BioCommunications Association. In 2016, he was awarded the BioCommunications Association's highest honor when he was selected as a Louis Schmidt Laureate.

You can see more of Chip's amazing work at www.charleshedgcock.com

 

The images featured in this JBC Gallery are fully copyrighted by Charles "Chip" Hedgcock, the University of Arizona, and/or the Madrean Archipelago Biodiversity Assessment program.

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Desert spiny lizard (Sceloporus magister) Great Plains Skink (Plestiodon obsoletus)
Desert Nightsnake (Hypsiglena chlorophaea) Thornscrub Hook-nosed Snake (Gyalopion quadrangulare)
Rock horned lizard (Phrynosoma ditmarsi) Bifurcation of the tail and ultraviolet fluorescence in the Arizona Bark Scorpion (Centruroides sculpturatus)
Green Ratsnake (Senticolis triaspis) Male Randa's eyed silkmoth (Automeris randa)
Male Arizona Walking stick (Diapheromera arizonensi) Sonoran Lyre Snake (Trimorphodon biscutatus)
Sonoran Lyre Snake (Trimorphodon biscutatus) Male Western Hercules Beetle (Dynastes granti)
Solpugid (Eremorhax pimanus) in hand Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake (Crotalus willardi)
Red-femured Milkweed Borer (Tetraopes femoratus) Western Banded Gecko (Coleonyx variegatus)
Land Snail (Humboldtiana sp.) Arroyo La Presita Male Dung Beetle (Phanaeus quadridens)
Sinaloa Toad (Incilius mazatlanensis) Passalid Beetle (Passalus punctiger)
Aquatic Diving Beetle- Sunburst Diving Beetle (Thermonectus marmoratus) Dytiscidae Male Ten-lined June beetle (Polyphylla decemlineata)