A couple of weeks ago I traveled to Garden City to meet and photograph Ryan Schaffer. Ryan is the Distance Learning Coordinator for the Lee Richardson Zoo and conducts free educational programs via the Internet to classrooms all around the country from a small studio at the zoo. The photographs, which were shot for USA Today, ran in today's edition. Click here to read the story.
On the day that I met him, he spoke about animal adaptations to middle schoolers in New Hampshire. A pair of television monitors in the studio allowed Ryan to see the students and to see their view of him.
Ryan explained that part of a bearded dragon's adaptation include its tail, which helps to balance the animal as it runs on its hind legs, often as it attempts to escape a predator.
I'm not sure if this poor hedgehog was more scared of the glowing light from an overhead projector or from me sticking a camera in its face.
A map of the country in Ryan's studio is marked with pins indicating communities to which he's broadcast a show. While there is a large cluster of pins in the state of Kansas, he has reached students from Alaska to New England.
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