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Joe and Sharon Goldston helping Merlin Tuttle photograph Brazilian free-tailed bats roosting in a bridge crevice in Austin, Texas. Photographing Bats
Teresa Nichta video taping Merlin Tuttle as he photographs a Common tent-making bat (Uroderma bilobatum) in Trinidad. Field Work
Paula Tuttle helping Merlin Tuttle take bat portraits in the rain forest near Tamana Cave in Trinidad. Photographing Bats
Teresa Nichta video taping Merlin Tuttle photographing Pygmy Round-eared bats (Lophostoma brasiliense) roosting in a termite nest in Trinidad. Using their teeth, these bats cut a perfectly round hole in the bottom of an occupied termite nest, which they then use as a roost. Photographing Bats
Staff and colleagues helping Merlin Tuttle put up his bat photo studio in preparation for photographing bats and teaching techniques at the Sheng-zheng Elementary School, better known as the Formosan Golden Bats' Home. Photographing Bats
Merlin Tuttle photographing Formosan golden bats (Myotis formosus flavus) in the Sheng-zheng Elementary School yard in Taiwan as students and Thrash (Heng-Chia Chang), founder of The Formosan Golden Bat's Home point out roosting bats between almost constantly heavy rains. Photographing Bats
Merlin Tuttle photographing a roosting northern ghost bat (Diclidurus albus) in Costa Rica. Photographing Bats
Merlin Tuttle photographing bats emerging from Tarum Cave in Cambodia. Emergence
Merlin Tuttle, aided by Daniel Hargreaves (black shirt) and Pongsanant Trirat (red shirt) taking portraits of bats at entrance to a cave in Thailand. Photographing Bats
Merlin Tuttle and assistants photographing Painted Bat (Kerivoula picta) in banana leaf roost between passing storms in Thailand. Photographing Bats
Daniela Schmieder (left) and Toni Hubancheva assist Merlin Tuttle in creating a set for photographing bats catching katydids in his studio in Bulgaria. Photography
Merlin Tuttle, Toni Hubancheva and Dani Schmieder (far left) collecting material to build a photo set in Bulgaria. Photography
Merlin Tuttle photographing Lyle's flying foxes (Pteropus lylei) roosting in Jantraram Temple courtyard, protected by monks in Thailand. Photographing Bats
Merlin Tuttle, Vhear Luong Cave, Cambodia
Merlin Tuttle and Neil Furey photographing wrinkle-lipped bat (Chaerephon plicatus) emergence from Vihear Luong Cave in Cambodia. Photography
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Caroline Schoner shielding Merlin Tuttle's camera from rain while documenting her research on woolly bats living in pitcher planrs in Brunei. Photography
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Merlin Tuttle photographing woolly bat habitat with Michael Schoner in a Brunei swamp. Photography
Merlin Tuttle photographing roosting California myotis in Utah. Photographing Bats
Merlin Tuttle and assistant, Bert Grantges, photographing western pipistrelles in a cliff face crevicew in Utah. Photographing Bats
Merlin Tuttle photographing a small nursery colony of California myotis (Myotis californicus) in a Utah cliff face in 1992. Photographing Bats
Merlin Tuttle photographing proboscis bats (Rhynchonycteris naso) roosting over a rain forest river in Belize. It took half a day of slow, quiet approach in order to get this close. Phototgraphing Bats
Merlin Tuttle photographing a colony of Proboscis bats (Rhynchonycteris naso) in Belize in 1992. The bats are roosting on the lower side of a large, leaning tree over ther river. Photographing Bats
Merlin Tuttle preparing to photograph newly tamed spectral bat (Vampyrum spectrum). This gentle and intelligent carnivorous species was one of Merlin's favorites. Photographing Bats
Merlin Tuttle and a local assistant arriving at a Jamaican bat cave to photograph bats in 1985. Photographing Bats
Merlin Tuttle and his photo equipment being lowered some 60 feet into a Jamaican cave in a guano collecting bag in 1985. The goal was to photograph male Jamaican fruit-eating bats guarding their harems. The men insisted on Merlin holding onto a vine in case the rope broke! Photographing Bats
Merlin Tuttle and his photo equipment about to be lowered some 60 feet into a Jamaican cave in a guano collecting bag to photograph male Jamaican fruit-eating bats guarding their harems in 1985. The guano miners didn't fully trust their pully system, so all insisted on taking a "hit of gangi" prior to lowering him. Photographing Bats
Merlin Tuttle emerging from a hole at the base of a large jungle tree in Panama. It was a very tight squeeze, but he successfully photographed short-tailed and frog-eating bats inside. Field Work
