PUNCHMAGAZINE.COM 105 didn't have any scientists in my family. It had never occurred to me that this was even an option.” She’s certainly made her parents proud. In 2012, Susan and her mom visited the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, where one of Susan’s photos was displayed. The image—a touching moment of a baby elephant being rescued from a water trough through the combined efforts of mother and aunts—was selected by Windland Smith Rice International Awards for the Nature’s Best Photography contest. “It was so much fun because we’d be lurking in the gallery to see who might interact with my photo,” Susan chuckles. “Every time [my mom] saw someone who would stop and look at my photo, she would spring up from the bench that we were sitting on and rush over and say, ‘My daughter took that photo and she’s sitting right there!’” Wild Wonder PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF: TIM GRAMS wild at heart susankmcconnell.com
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