Realistic and Artistic Fly Tying

A pair of realistic Hex mayflies - more photos

Adult October Caddis Fly, click here for step by step tying

This Caddis Fly was mistaken for the real thing, click for more info

Baby Red Eared Turtle, click here for step-by-step fly tying tutorial

Realistic Neon Skimmer Dragonfly- more photos

Coloring is achieved with markers and custom pigmented varnish

Realistic Fireflies - Commissioned for a Georgia Power Advertisement

Producer requested hooks facing down, as well as off to the side, for photographing

Georgia Power advertisement with my realistic fireflies / lightning bugs

Realistic honey bee on my finger, with hook removed

A dozen of these bees were commission by Disney for the film Bedtime Stories

Realistic scorpion and a realistic bee

Six scorpions were shipped to Puerto Rico for the filming of A Perfect Getaway

Another realistic scorpion, hunting a realistic bee

Hexagenia Limbata - click for a few more photos

Golden Stonefly Nymph, an effective realistic fishing fly

Realistic adult Golden Stoneflies, good fishing flies

Fat Juicy Stonefly, click for step by step tying tutorial

Camel Spider tied for a friend, click for a few more photos

Artistic rendition of a Seahorse, Click to see step by step tying

Realistic Scorpion - click for a couple more pictures

Artistic Dragonfly

Realistic Grasshopper

Realistic Mayfly

Adult Caddisfly - click here for step by step tying

Cased Caddis, click here for step by step tying

Red Hardy Greys spider in action

A colorful dragonfly

Realistic Midge, a very small fly, click here for more photos

Dragonfly Nymph

Emerging Dragonfly, click here for step by step tying

Realistic Adult Mayfly

Realistic Hellgrammite

This wasp on HBO's " Little Britain USA", October 2008

A pair of dragonflies about to share a bug lunch

Realistic Red Salamander

Green garden spider

A pair of realistic Tadpoles

More realistic bees

Realistic moth

First try tying a Salmon fly, click here for more pictures

I donated two realistic Hex Mayflies and photos to the Sierra Pacific Fly Fishers club
Frames sold for $350 each, helping make the annual fund raiser a great success

A couple of my photos and flies published in Field & Stream magazine

May - 2009 - Some of 212 realistic moths for Sony / Columbia Pictures, for an Adam Sandler comedy

click here to see a larger photo

Realistic Honeybee

April 2009 - 50 realistic honeybees, Created for Mikimoto Pearls, spring window displays

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Realistic Houseflies

The flies above were commissioned for the filming of Cirque du Freak

This is how they look after the hooks are cut off

A collection of similar flies were created for the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,
and filmed in spoonful of honey, in a scene with Brad Pitt

My realistic houseflies will also be seen in HBO's new comedy series "Hung"