My name is Steve Nelson. I am the Art and Graphics Editor at the Times-Union, but also an avid outdoorsman with a passion for going to wild places. I am lucky to live a life so close to nature...

Oct 10, 2016 · Wild Life: Read more of Steve Nelson's stories and see his art. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. No, it takes an oft-tormented soul to fully embrace a rural life.

Mar 14, 2016 · See and read more stories: Steve Nelson's Wild Life. I strode deeper into uncharted territory. Here I would have a greater opportunity to witness a wild world still largely untouched by...

Aug 29, 2016 · Additional Stories and Art: Steve Nelson's Wild Life. As the lay of the land goes, my destination was relatively small and symmetrical - about 500 yards across - in Keystone Heights. The...

May 21, 2020 · Creating an acrylic wildlife painting on canvas, I use both tight and loose painting techniques to come up with a unique process and end product.

Apr 16, 2017 · Florida Times-Union columnist Steve Nelson has been painting since he was four years old. The writin

Apr 16, 2017 · Florida Times-Union columnist Steve Nelson has been painting since he was four years old. The writing emerged surprisingly when he was nearly sixty. “Painting was my first love,” says Nelson in his bustling Times-Union newsroom cubicle. “Writing is just fun.”

Mar 3, 2022 · Fun wildlife sighting this morning. Was paddling past the Mangrove Island just South of Pop’s and heard what sounded like a huge cat fight. A big wet Bobcat popped out of the mangroves, saw me and...

Nov 19, 2021 · Steve Nelson, a Pierre resident, is a longtime outdoor writer and photographer. The top pheasant years in our state were during the heydays of the old federal Soil Bank Program and then later...

North Jetty based SUP addict and Nature Photographer. Lightning, Storms, Sunrises and Sunsets, and all Wildlife above and below the water.