I've been fascinated by the natural world since I was a little girl picking up everything that would fit in my pocket - acorns, feathers, rocks, shells. Now I take pictures of all kinds of things I encounter. I love my macro lens and the normally unseen details of things it reveals to me.

I'm a generalist who's been learning about different organisms and their IDs through trying to figure out what I've photographed for years now. BugGuide has taught me a lot about arthropods; friends about birds, and now iNaturalist about other things, mostly plants.

I also post on Flickr and BugGuide.
On Flickr, my long-running and more aesthetic account: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zxgirl/
On Flickr, my more documentary account: https://www.flickr.com/photos/124085707@N06/
On BugGuide: http://bugguide.net/user/view/7754
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zxgirl/

Some of my art: https://www.behance.net/AshleyBradford

It is my wish that all of the content I have contributed to iNaturalist (photos, comments, etc.) remain on the site in the event of my death.