Geoff Coe founded Wild Images Florida in 2008, and his images of birds and their habitats have since been exhibited at over 400 art festivals in Florida and along the Atlantic Coast. Geoff is also available for lively, entertaining speaking engagements and useful classroom sessions and half-day outdoor workshops. Geoff’s images draw high praise (and, ahem, a few awards here and there) for his keen eye for light and composition—and, as befits his background as a scientist, photojournalist and writer—his ability to capture moments that “tell a story” about the lives of his avian subjects.

Born in Pennsylvania, Geoff majored in geology with a minor in creative writing at Dickinson College, graduating cum laude with departmental honors. After a year at Johns Hopkins, where he discovered that he’d rather be a “creative” than a research scientist, Geoff moved to Washington DC, where he worked for the Washington Post as a corporate communicator, freelance writer and photo columnist. Moving to Denver after a decade, he served as creative services director in the advertising industry. Then, as personal computers began to boom, Geoff designed and wrote user help systems for software applications on behalf of over a dozen companies before he joined IT leader Sun Microsystems as a technical communicator. After a decade or so, Geoff left Sun, and Colorado, for sunny Florida. And you know the rest!

”I’ve always believed that the best career path is one that enables you to draw on everything you’ve learned in everything you’ve done before,” Geoff says. “I’ve always used my camera to explore things I was curious about. When I moved to Florida, the birds I saw from my kayak fascinated me, so I started photographing them and posting them to photo sharing websites, all the while bugging my nephew, a skilled birder, for information. Long story short: His Dad sent me a birding book (perhaps to get me off his back). Then I started getting emails from folks asking if my work was for sale, and I thought: ‘Sure, why not?’ I love shooting, writing about how I do it, and talking with customers and young people who love photography and art to help them learn too.”