Through Words and Lenses

Dr. Muriel McClellan blends together her knowledge as a psychologist with her love of wildlife photography. After completing her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Arizona State University, she went on to establish a successful counseling practice. Yet, she was drawn to nature and eventually took up wildlife photography. 


To develop her photography skills she has traveled extensively and studied with well known photographers around the world.  She went to Africa to photograph elephants and lions and to Japan to photograph red crowned cranes and snow monkeys. She went to England to photograph puffins and to Lake Kerkini in Northern Greece to photograph Dalmatian pelicans.  One highlight of her travels was to spend a month in the Southern Ocean where South Georgia is located and to the Antarctica to photograph penguins.  Another highlight was to travel to Alaska and visit Lake Clark National Park and Preserve to photograph brown bears.
 
It was while she was photographing the penguins that she began to envision a book telling the story of penguins speaking to her and asking that she share their wisdom. The book would be full of photos capturing the beauty of the penguins in the wild. Each photo would have a caption combining her knowledge of psychology with ideas from the penguins that could be applied to one’s daily life. Advice from the Penguins is a result of that vision.  Soon after that Advice from the Grizzly Bears came to her with the same vision.


Dr. McClellan hopes that you will enjoy these delightful photos and that the captions will help you live a more satisfied life. 
Traveling in the Antarctica to photograph penguins.  
Traveling to Lake Clark to Photograph brown bears.