ABOUT   THE  PHOTOGRAPHERS

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PAULA SHARP is a photojournalist and writer. She is the author of the bestseller  Crows over a Wheatfield and four other novels, and she has traveled throughout the United States and Brazil, photographing and documenting life here and in the Amazon.  Her latest book, Native Bees of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, is a 500-page work showcasing the bees of South Texas (Texas A&M University Press, 2025).

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ROSS EATMAN has been a nature photographer for twenty-five years. He is a co-founder of Sharp-Eatman Nature Photography, a society dedicated to documenting conservation issues.

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Sharp & Eatman are currently documenting native bees of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, situated on the Texas-Mexican border.  Sharp & Eatman's latest work can be viewed at the new website,  Wild Bees of Texas at the National Butterfly Center.

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PHOTOGRAPHY   EXHIBITS
 

An exhibit of Sharp & Eatman's photographs, titled Wild Bees, is currently on a national tour.  Wild Bees has appeared at Connecticut's Bruce Museum of Art and Science; the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden of California; the Irving Arts Center of Dallas; the Houston Museum of Natural Science; the International Museum of Art and Science; South Carolina's Brookgreen Gardens; the University of South Carolina's McKissick Museum;   the Louisiana Art & Science Museum of Baton Rouge; the Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art in Scranton, Pennsylvania; and the Maguire Art Museum, located in the Philadelphia area. 

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For further information on exhibits, please visit our Exhibits Page.  If you would like to contact the photographers, please use our Contact Page.