Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper.... WNY environmental portrait

An out take from a recent editorial assignment for Buffalo Spree Magazine. I wanted to photograph Jill Jedlicka, the organization's executive director, in the Niagara River.  I brought my chest waders--and Jill was more than willing to enter the now much cleaner waterway and demonstrate the progress made in restoring the natural habitat of the Niagara.  A different image from this series was chosen as the December cover for Spree's "People of the Year".