Hi, I’m Kitty Kono!

Hello and thank you for coming to my website.  Many of you know me well and I don’t want to bore you with my story.  However, some of you don’t know me.  So for those who don’t, let me give you a quick summary.  I grew up on a dairy farm in Quakertown, Pennsylvania.  I went to college near Roanoke, Virginia – Hollins College where I majored in Psychology.  I spent most of my professional working life with the American Society for Testing and Materials  (ASTM International).  Then when I was 55, I retired from ASTM and, with my husband and ten year old daughter went to Japan to live for a year.  It was in Japan I fell in love with photography.  I started taking pictures every day and posting one photo each day and keeping a blog. That was about 20 years ago and I am still trying to do that every single day.  Anyway, after all these years, I’ve taken a heck of a lot of photos.  I’ve collected subjects together and published about 25 books on everything from the insects and spiders of Valley Forge to the elephants and lions of Kenya.  So, take a look around.  The blog, in my opinion, is so much fun because you can put a search term in for almost any bird, animal or bug. In the last 20 years, I have probably taken a picture of that creature and written about it in my blog.

So have fun and thanks for stopping by.  And let me know what you think.