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Okefenokee Photography Project by William Wise

A photographic exploration of Georgia's Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge to highlight this habitat for continued future preservation.

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Author: William Wise

Hi, I’m conservation photographer and nature writer William Wise. Nature journaling and wildlife photography has been a favorite pastime since the ‘90s. I graduated from University of Georgia Warnell Forestry School's wildlife program in 1996. I'm currently an animal shelter manager/photographer and reside in Athens, Georgia, USA with my wife and two teenage daughters. My website www.williamwisephoto.com is a wildlife and birding photo website documenting the beauty, design and wonder of creation. I have a deep love of the Okefenokee Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia. I became a devoted Christian in 1993 under a campus ministry while studying wildlife biology. My love of the outdoors quickly turned into a love for the Creator and His works. Creation Speaks is my teaching ministry that glorifies our Creator and teaches the truth of creation. I am also a guest author at Lee's Birdwatching Adventures and The Creation Club. The theme of my blogging comes from The Message version of Psalms 104 -- "What a wildly wonderful world, God! You made it all, with Wisdom at Your side, You made earth overflow with your wonderful creations."

Okefenokee Pileated Woodpecker Designs

“I feel like I’m beating my head against the wall.” Obviously, that’s an expression we use to describe a pointless … More

Birding, Georgia, National Wildlife Refuge, Okefenokee Swamp, Pileated Woodpecker, Stephen C Foster, Wildlife Photography

Rena Ann Peck: Save the Okefenokee Swamp

Editorial published in the Calhoun Times on November 26, 2020 by Rena Peck: Since 2018 when Twin Pines Minerals, LLC, … More

Chesser Prairie, Conservation Photography, Editorial Rena Peck, Endangered, Georgia, Hooded Pitcher Plant, Mining, National Wildlife Refuge, Nature Photography, Okefenokee Swamp, Threatened, Wetlands Habitat, williamwisephoto

Gator, Boys!

This riveting story was published in 1875 in The Savannah Morning News from the journal of the Okefenokee exploration party: … More

Alligator, Attack, Cypress Swamp, Georgia, National Wildlife Refuge, Nature Photography, Okefenokee Expedition 1875, Okefenokee Swamp, Wildlife Photography

Juvenile Alligator Pod on Okefenokee Minnie’s Lake

At the north end of Minnie’s Lake on the Middle Fork of the Suwanee River in the Okefenokee, we paddled … More

Alligator, Georgia, Minnie Lake, National Wildlife Refuge, Okefenokee Swamp, Wildlife Photography, williamwisephoto

A Very Large and Terrible Creature

Excerpt from William Bartram’s Travels, Part II, Chapter V. ​”THE alligator when full grown is a very large and terrible creature, and … More

Alligator, Bartram Travels, Georgia, National Wildlife Refuge, Nature Photography, Okefenokee Swamp, Wildlife Photography, William Bartram, williamwisephoto

Home Away From Home

In 1851, the American songwriter Stephen C. Foster sang of the Okefenokee’s Suwannee River as “home” in the song, Old Folks … More

Georgia, National Wildlife Refuge, Nature Journal, Nature Photography, Okefenokee Swamp, Saw Palmetto, Stephen C Foster, Sunset Landscape, William Wise Photography

Okefenokee Woodpecker Excavations

The flooded prairies and hammocks of the Okefenokee Swamp hold acre after acre of standing, dead wood. An abundance of … More

Bird Photography, Birding, Georgia, National Wildlife Refuge, Nature Photography, Okefenokee Swamp, Pileated Woodpecker, Wildlife Photography, williamwisephoto

One Live Alligator is Worth a Dozen Dead

An excerpt from naturalist Bradford Torrey’s 1894 book, A Florida Sketch-Book: “But as we were skirting along the shore I suddenly … More

Alligator, Billys Lake, Bradford Torrey, Florida Sketch Book, Georgia, National Wildlife Refuge, Nature Photography, Okefenokee Swamp, Wildlife Photography, williamwisephoto

Okefenokee Upland Pine Trail

By definition, a swamp doesn’t have much high ground not inundated with water. Therefore, there aren’t too many dry hiking … More

Bobcat, Georgia, National Wildlife Refuge, Nature Photography, Okefenokee Swamp, Stephen C Foster, Wildlife Photography, williamwisephoto

William Bartram’s “Little Green Chameleon”

– Excerpt from William Bartram’s Travels, Part II, Chapter X “THERE are several species of the lizard kind besides the alligator, which … More

Bartram Travels, Georgia, Green Anole, lizard, National Wildlife Refuge, Nature Photography, Okefenokee Swamp, reptile, Stephen C Foster, Wildlife Photography, William Bartram, williamwisephoto

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