Emily’s love of natural history is the basis of her photography. She often works at the macro level, creating portraits of the unique plants and animals found around us in the landscape. Emily especially enjoys creating series that showcase the change of the seasons or the biodiversity of native flora and fauna.

Her company’s name, Viridescent Journeys, comes from her favorite animal, the red-spotted newt. Emily’s life long love for nature began as a child, looking for newts everywhere she went during summers spent at her family lake house.

The word Viridescent is a derivative of the Latin word viridescens which means greenish or becoming green. Viridescens is the species name of the Red-Spotted Newt, Notophthalmus viridescens. The red-spotted newt has a unique natural history among salamanders, living on land for a number of years in a juvenile stage, commonly called a “red eft”, before transforming and returning to the water to live out its life as an adult. The eft changes color, losing its bright orange warning coloration and becomes a drab olive green, which provides camouflage in the water. It is this change to green that the species name viridescens refers to.

The company is not only named after this creature and its incredible journey through life, but also after the many journeys Emily has had while out taking photos.

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