Todd Sonflieth never shot an interview before from atop a ladder. In fact our fossil scientist, Bill Orr, was at the top of a ladder too. We all climbed up so we'd be able to talk about a pteranodon model hanging from a ceiling.

Michael Bendixen loves to get wet. It helps that he has a special waterproof housing for the one camera.

Still, sometimes the full featured camera works best, even if you're knee deep in a lake.

Todd Sonflieth gets wet the old fashioned way. Waders protect his legs. An "aquarium box" with plexiglass on one end shields the full sized camera for a partially-submerged angle.

Tom Shrider flattens himself against the roots of a tree to watch arachnologist Greta Binford probing the soil for a tiny, two-millimeter, distant relative of the brown recluse.

Nick Fisher waits in a ditch for nearly 30 minutes waiting for a cyclist to ride through his perfectly framed shot with ferns in the foreground.