I’m primarily a reporter/writer, but I take pictures, too. Here are some of my favorites.

Chesapeake Bay oyster survey aboard the Miss Kay.

Gov. Martin O'Malley

Crewmember Kelly Sullivan drops one of the dredges in the water as soon as the sun peeks out over the horizon, at 6:57 a.m. The Hilda M. Willing is the last working skipjack on the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay.

Hoops hold the mainsail to the mast of the skipjack Hilda M. Willing. The sails rarely are used anymore and never for dredging oysters.The Hilda M. Willing is the last working skipjack on the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay.

Watermen Patrick Mahoney Jr., front, and Patrick Mahoney Sr. keep their eyes on the water as they pull crab pots from the Chesapeake Bay.

Fresh Maryland blue crabs are for sale at Wild Country Seafood in Annapolis, Md.

Naturalist Greg Kearns holds a young osprey in the Jug Bay area of the Patuxent River.

Portrait of Rusty Ruszin, who retired as the director of the Maryland Parks Service.

The West/Rhode Riverkeeper operates a pumpout boat called the "Honeydipper."

Watermen endure a hearing on changes to crabbing regulations.

Natural Resources Police Cpl. Catherine Peck talks with waterman Joe Bowles as she measures his oysters while on patrol in the St. Mary's River in Southern Maryland.

Artist Cindy Fletcher-Holden with a painted rain barrel.