National Wildlife Magazine cover story
On Maggie’s Pond

Virginia Wildlife Magazine
I Spy Salamanders (view cover)

National Wildlife Magazine
Pools of Quiet Wonder

Ranger Rick cover story
Slinky Minks

Sony Alpha Universe
How This Conservation Photographer Gets Up Close to Reveal the Hidden Lives of Salamanders & More

Nature Conservancy Magazine cover story
Inside the Alien World of Vernal Pools

Ranger Rick
Spring Awakening

Northern Woodlands Magazine
Underwater Photography: Life in Vernal Pools

Petapixel
Stunning Macro Photos Shot Within the Unique World of Vernal Pools

Ranger Rick
Backyard Wildlife: Box Turtle

Biographic
A (Proposed) Pipeline Runs Through It

Nature Conservancy Magazine
Heart of Appalachia

(2026) I Spy Salamanders: Virginia Wildlife Magazine (cover and four photos)

(2025) Pools of Quiet Wonder: National Wildlife Magazine feature (nine photos)

(2025) Slinky Minks, Ranger Rick cover story (fourteen photos)

(2024) Spotted Salamander Eggs: Geo Paris (photo)

(2024) The Wonder of Wetlands: 5 Southerner Leading the Fight to Protect Them: Southern Environmental Law Center Magazine (four photos).

(2024) Next Time You See a Snowflake (two photos for NSTA books)

(2023) Appalachian Salamanders footage for Southern Environmental Law Center short form video that has been viewed 829,000 times (six video clips)

(2023) How This Conservation Photographer Gets Up Close To Reveal The Hidden Lives Of Salamanders & More: Sony Alpha Universe (photo portfolio)

(2023) Wetlands of Wonder: Video footage featured in documentary film about vernal pools

Produced by 320 Stories in association with Delaware Dept of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and aired on Maryland Public Television (PBS Chesapeake Bay Week)

(2023) Spring Awakening: Ranger Rick feature (14 photos)

(2022) A Guide to the Turtles of Virginia, Special Publication: 2nd Edition, Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (cover) 

(2021) Beneath the Surface - Inside the Hidden World of Vernal Pools: Nature Conservancy Magazine: cover, 2-3, 44-53, 64 (cover story, eleven photos)

(2021) Stunning Macro Shots within the Hidden World of Vernal Pools: Petapixel (photo portfolio)

(2021) Shell Game - The Problem of Illegal Trade in Turtles: Virginia Wildlife, May/June 2021: cover, 6 (cover photo and one additional photo)

(2020)A Guide to the Frogs and Toads of Virginia, Special Publication Number 3: 2nd Edition, Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (cover and thirteen additional photos)

(2020) Box Turtle: Ranger Rick, November 2020: 34-36 (feature story includes six photos, video on web site)

(2020) A Guide to the Salamanders of Virginia: Special Publication Number 7, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (cover and nine additional photos)

(2019) A (Proposed) Pipeline Runs through it: Biographic (20 photos)

(2019) Heart of Appalachia: Nature Conservancy Magazine, Winter 2019: 33, 34, 35 (six photos)

(2019) Seldom Seen: Spring is for Spotted Salamanders: Virginia Wildlife: March/April 2019: opening spread, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25 (story and 11 photos)

2018) Blue Crayfish: Ranger Rick: June/July 2018: 7 (photo and featured video on web site)

(2018) Salamander photographs: Virginia Wildlife, January/February 2018: 30, 33, back cover (three photos for article on salamander declines)

(2018) Cow Knob Salamander: Bay Journal online February 2018 (photo)

(2018) American Beaver: Appalachian Voices, Spring 2018 (photo)

(2017) Appalachian Vernal Pools article: Smoky Mountain Journal of Photography, 3, n4: cover, 16-30 (28 photos plus text in pdf publication)

(2017) Red Salamander: National Fish and Wildlife Annual Report (photo)

(2017) Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument biodiversity: EARTHJUSTICEBLOG, June 16, 2017 (4 photos)

(2017) Hobart Bluff: REI Co-op Facebook, June 21, 2017 (photo for REI’s National Monument campaign on Facebook)

(2017) Cocobolo: Hope for a Vanishing Species (three of my video clips from Panama appeared in this piece about the endangered harlequin toad)

(2017) Next Time You See a Cloud photos: 8, 15, 17,  20, 26 (five photos for NSTA books)

(2017) Hellbender Salamander photo: Virginia Wildlife, January/February 2017: 25

(2016) Pacific Chorus Frog: Frog Log, 24, n1:20 (my photograph of a Chorus Frog as well an interview with me about the EMU Conservation Photo class appeared in  Frog Log 117 in an article by Dave Huth titled “The Salamander’s Smile: Photography’s Powerful Role in Conservation”)

(2016) Hellbender Salamander photo: BBC Focus Magazine, March 2016: 48

(2016) This American Land Season 6: Episode 2. Four photos for segment on protecting Shenandoah Mountain and the George Washington NationalForest)

(2015) Eye on the Environment photos: Richmond Times-Dispatch, September 20, 2015: G1, G15  (featured photographer for Richmond Times-Dispatch Flair)

(2015) Cow Knob Salamander: Staunton News Leader, October 26, 2015: front page A01, 2A (three photos)

(2015) Cow Knob Salamander: Richmond Times-Dispatch, October 13, 2015: A1 (photo on front page of Richmond Times-Dispatch)

(2015) Next Time You See a Spiderweb: 11, 19, 20, 24, 26 (five photos for NSTA books)

(2014) Pacific Chorus Frog: Conservationniste, 29, n2:25 (photo)

(2014) Magdalena and the Fireflies: National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Bugs: 55 (photo)

(2014) Placobdella parasitica: photograph included in True Bloodsuckers - Leeches: ScienceFriday.comvideo

(2014) My School Yard Garden (eight photographs for NSTA books)

(2014) Next Time You See a Maple Seed: 4, 9, 11, 17, 23, 25, 32)  (seven photos for NSTA books)

(2014) Next Time You See the Moon: 13, 17, 26, 32 (five photos for NSTA books)

(2014) Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center catalog (three photos)

(2013) Firefly images: Wisconsin Natural Resources Magazine, 37, n4: 4-6 (cover photo and three additional images)

(2013, July/August) 20 Things the Dog Ate: Orion Magazine, 32, n4: 7 (photo)

(2013) In Praise of Lichens (six photos for peer-reviewed Pan Journal online)

(2013) Next Time You See a Pillbug: cover, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, 16, 20, 23, 25, 27, 29 (thirteen photos including cover image for NSTA books)

(2013) Next Time You See a Firefly: 4, 7, 8, 18, 21, 24, 25, 28 (eight photos for NSTA books)

(2013) Firefly in Hand:Leave No Child Inside (cover photograph for Orion books)

(2013) Salamanders of Fridley’s Gap: Place-Based Education (cover photograph for Orion books)

(2013, March/April) Rope Swing (Accompanies “The Politics of Play”): Orion Magazine, 32, n2 (photograph).

(2013, April) White-throated sparrow: The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds of Vermont: 424(photo)

(2013, Spring) Cottonwood timber sale area: Green Springs Mountain Wild Area – Land with Wilderness Character report (3 photographs – two appear on cover)

(2013, Spring) Sampson Cove timber sale area: KalmiopsisWild.org 4 photos)

(2013, Spring) Greensprings Mountain: Backyard Forests web site (4 photos)

(2013, February) Whirlpools: Flycatcher Journal (8 photographs)

(2012, Winter) Fireflies: Focus (Magazine of Soka Gakkai International of New Zealand), Caring for the Planet opening spread (photograph).

(2012, Fall) Fireflies: Wings: Essays on Invertebrate Conservation, Fall 2012: 5 (photo)

(2012, July/August) Children in Nature (accompanies “Look, don’t Touch”): Orion Magazine, 31, n4 (photo)

(2012, Summer) Red Backed Salamander: Image for interpretive sign for the city of Westmount, Quebec. 

(2012, Summer) Grackles in Flight: Sufi: Journal of Mystical Philosophy and Practice, 83, summer: 37  (photo)

(2012, May/June) Chickens: Blue Ridge Country, 25, n5/6: 3, 3, 62-65 (eight photographs including double-page spread article lead)

(2012, May/June) Mink: The Wildlife Volunteer: A Publication of the Michigan Wildlife Conservancy, May/June 2012,:2 (two photos)

(2012, March/April) Ecopyschology images: Orion Magazine, 31, n2: 17-18, 21-22, 24 (five illustrations)

(2012, April) Blue Ridge Parkway Foodie Tour: Blue Ridge Country, 25, n3/4: 16-20 (six photos including double-page spread article lead)

(2011, August) Tralfamadore Farm: Blue Ridge Country, 24, n7/8: 3, 52-53 (five photos)

(2011, May/June) Water Abstractions: Orion Magazine, 30, n3: table of contents, 73-74 (six photos)

(2011, Winter) The Sisters of Cootes Store: Newfound Journal, 2, n4 (eight photo series)

(2011, Winter) Riffing on Whirlpools: Numéro Cinq (seven creative photo abstractions) Selected for The Best of Numéro Cinq, Volume I.

(2011, Winter) What It’s Like Living Here: Numéro Cinq (four photo series)

(2010, Fall) Maggie and the Gourd, Sisters and the Bubble: Shots, 109: 8, 11 (two full page photos)

(2010, July/August), Equus, Horses in Motion: Orion Magazine, 29, n4: table of contents, 53 (double page spread and full-page image photos)

(2010, January 25) A public display of affection: WMRA blog (Photographed NPR’s Carl Kassell for WMRA in Harrisonburg (six photos)

(2009, August) Swimming hole on the Shenandoah: Blue Ridge Country, 22, n7/8: 41 (lead photo for feature).

(2009, May/June) Spring, George Washington National Forest and Leaves in Ice: Orion Magazine, 28, n3:39-40 (two photos)

(2007, Oct) Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: National Geographic Traveler magazine, 24, n7:68 (photograph).

Southern Environmental Law Center Magazine
The Wonder of Wetlands and 5 Southerners Working to Protect Them

National Geographic
13 Stunning Photos from this Year’s Best Wildlife Photographers

Smithsonian Magazine
See 11 of the Best Wildlife Photographs From Years Past

James Madison University
Conservation photography is about ‘the big picture’

Ethics and the More-Than-Human World with Steven David Johnson on Elev8Ethics S1E2

The Nature Photographer Podcast episode #9 on Wild & Exposed

Impact: The Conservation Photography Podcast episode #20

Vernal Pools - Documenting Life in Temporary Ponds
NANPA Handbook Series: Free E-Book Download

Ephemeral Video
Ephemeral - Life in Appalachian Vernal Pools

(2026) The Amazing World of Vernal Pools. Co-presented with Mike Hayslett. Capital Nature

(2025) Vernal Pools, Riverine, American Mink. Wildspeak. International League of Conservation Photographers Washington, D.C.

(2024) Ethics and the More-Than-Human-World: A Conservation Photographer’s Perspective. James Madison University

(2023) Conservation Photography as a Way of Knowing: The International Environmental Communication Association, Many Voices, One Planet, The 17th Conference on Communication and the Environment. James Madison University

(2022) Beneath Vernal Pools: presentation at the Wayne Theater for The Virginia Museum of Natural History

(2021) Life in Vernal Pools: recorded multimedia presentation for the Amphibian Foundation

(2018) Just Below the Surface: Photographing Life in Creeks, Rivers and Vernal Pools. Webinar for North American Nature Photography Association

(2017) Conservation Photography. Presentation and workshop at NEPARC (Northeast Partners Amphibian and Reptile Conservation)

(2017) Just Below the Surface. Presentation at the North American Nature Photographers Summit in Jacksonville

(2015) Conservation Photography 101. Presentation at the North American Nature Photographers Summit in San Diego

(2025) Wood Turtle, Glyptemys insculpta and Pool of Wonder. Images shown as part of Liquid Commonwealth juried exhibition at the Muscarelle Museum of Willam and Mary

(2024) Pool of Wonder. Image shown at Vital Impacts exhibit, Photoville, Brooklyn Bridge Park, NY

(2024) Riverine. Exhibition at Beverly Purdue Gallery at Bridgewater College (photos by Steven David Johnson, writing and illustrations by Anna Maria Johnson)

(2024) Pool of Wonder. Image shown at Wildlife Photographer of the Year 59, Museum of Natural History, London

(2021) Vernal Pools Revisited. Sabbatical Exhibition at EMU Margaret Gehman Gallery

(2018) Vernal Pools. Exhibition at EMU Margaret Gehman Gallery (photography by Steven David Johnson. Sound design by Ryan Keebaugh)

(2014, January) Rock. Lichen. Forest. Sabbatical Exhibition at EMU Margaret Gehman Gallery (photography by Steven David Johnson. Text and illustrations by Anna Maria Johnson)

(2012, July/August) The Dynamics of Water. Solo exhibition at the James Madison University Edith J. Carrier Arboretum Frances Plecker Education Center, Harrisonburg, VA (14 photographs, invited)

(2011, September) Down to the River. Group exhibition at EMU (15 photographs, invited)

(2011, August) The Dynamics of Water. Solo exhibition at the Valley Council for the Arts Smith House Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA (26 photographs, invited)

(2011, February) Leaf. Flower. Spiral. The Flow of Energy in the Natural World. Group exhibit at the Blandy Experimental Farm, State Arboretum of Virginia (seven photos)

(2010, August) VACA group faculty show. Blue Ridge Community College, Weyers Cave, VA

(2009, May) The King of Cootes Store (photo). Clementine Battle of the Arts (juried show), Harrisonburg, VA

(2009, June) Mountain Laurel, Trout Pond, WV (two photographs). VMRC juried art exhibit, Harrisonburg, VA

(2008, October) Virginia Journal. Group exhibit (seven photos), EMU Hartzler Gallery

(2008, March) Traces of place. Two person exhibit (photography) and artist’s talk, Davison Gallery, Roberts Wesleyan College, North Chili, NY

(2007, October 13-November 9) Traces of place. Group faculty exhibit (photography), Sadie Hartzler Library Gallery, EMU

(2006, March 13-April 7) The Creatures Among Us. Solo exhibit (photography), Sadie Hartzler Library Gallery, EMU