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Agustin Esmoris

16 Jan 2020 12:00 am

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Agustin's passion and love for the wildlife he photographs comes through in his images which have appeared in publications including: books by National Geographic like the NG Learning Series, international nature books, magazines, and numerous other publications and calendars.~~He's currently (and in the long term) focused on the patagonian biodiversity of southern South America.

Albert Lleal

22 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Albert Lleal was born in Badalona (Catalonia,Spain) in 1970 and was passionate for nature since childhood. When he was seventeen he discovered his interest in photography which led him to graduate in audio-visual technology and video, while studying singing and vocal technique. ~~Having worked for years as a professional singer he left the profession when he began to pursue photography full time in 1995. Over the years he worked on several editorial and audiovisual projects but soon he discovered his interest in the nature macro and microphotography and began to specialize in those fields. For two years he worked as a photographer for the Geological Museum of the Seminar in Barcelona learning techniques in paleontologic photography and publishing in several specialized international magazines. ~~Lleal's list of clients include organizations focusing on pro-animal rights and environmental protection (Altarriba Foundation, INWA, Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI), etc.) and scientific institutions such as the Marine Studies Center in Badalona, Zoological Museum of Barcelona, Tecno Agrary Institute Research (IRTA). His work has been published in published magazines such as National Geographic Spain and National Geographic France and in the most important Spanish magazines and newspaper's sunday magazines (El Pas, La Vanguardia, El Periódico, etc).~~His collection is specially strong in closeup photography, paleontology, microphotography (SEM coloured and optical microscopy) and landscapes.

Andrew Peacock

10 Sep 2020 04:04 pm

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In Andrew's own words:~I first began to explore the world around me through a camera lens while working as a doctor on voluntary assignments in the mountains of Nepal and India. Now I use my medical and outdoor adventure skills to find ways to explore new corners of the globe and tell those stories through photography.~As an adventure travel photographer my intent is to create images that tell stories of human exploration and adventure in areas of natural beauty and wonder. My inspiration comes from the activities, landscapes, wildlife and people of the outdoor world.

Anup Shah and Fiona Rogers

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Anup Shah and Fiona Rogers are a husband-and-wife team of wildlife photographers who spend months on end in the wild studying and photographing wild subjects. With contrasting yet complementary styles, they concentrate on getting at thought-provoking photographs with an enigmatic flavour. Their publications include full length features in National Geographic, Geo, Smithsonian, National Wildlife, and BBC Wildlife magazines, and a recently published book on chimpanzees, ‘Tales from Gombe’, and another one on the animals of Maasai Mara called, ’The Mara’. They have exhibited in Japan, India, Italy, Lithuania and The U.K.

Benjamin Olson

13 Jul 2022 12:00 am

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Benjamin Olson is a nature photographer based in Minnesota's Twin Cities, soon to be Alaska. His childhood revolved around wildlife, fishing, and hunting. After discovering the wonders of photography, he changed his focus to wildlife encounters as seen through a camera lens. His current projects include documenting the human-wildlife conflict of the Alexander Archipelago wolves in S.E. Alaska, and documenting the impacts of climate change in northern Minnesota, with expansion to Alaska in 2023. He currently works with Beltrami Island State Forest documenting forest succession as a product of climate change using time-lapse cameras, which will remain active for a minimum of 30 years.~~Ben has an undergraduate in Biology with an emphasis in Ecology, Ethology and Evolution, plus an A.A.S. in Digital Imaging Technology. His long term goal is to use photography to promote awareness of the perils the natural world faces today while working towards conservation and environmental restoration.~~"As a photographer, I spend countless hours in the field chasing elusive wildlife, temperamental weather, and fleeting light. I am fortunate if I walk away with an amazing picture at the end of the day. Only a handful of images I capture each year merit a spot in my portfolio. Immersing myself in nature has become a way of life, and I am grateful for the opportunities I have had and I am excited for the experiences to come; the ability to capture these rare moments and to share them with the world fills me with enthusiasm for life and the motivation needed to use my work towards conservation and environmental awareness efforts."~~All of the images represented here are depictions of reality. Minimal post-processing is applied to each image, nothing is added or removed from any images. All wildlife images are wild animals captured in their natural environment without the use of bait, feeding or playback calls. Ben strives to capture nature as it is, with minimal human impact. "I subscribe to the philosophy of 'leave no trace' in my photography," he says.~~Ben has received numerous photography awards and accolades. The North American Nature Photography Association college scholarship paired him with some of the industry's best photojournalists and editors. A three-time honorable mention in the Nature's Best Photography Windland Smith Awards, The Big Picture, and others, He was the 2016 winner of the Art Wolfe Next-Generation Photographer's Grant, Antarctic 21 Grants, and the Adobe Creative Residency. Numerous conservation and photography magazines publish his photos, including: National Geographic, Audubon, Ranger Rick, Patagonia, Arc'teryx, and many others.

Birgitte Wilms

24 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Born in 1966 outside of Copenhagen, Denmark, Birgitte Wilms began her underwater photographic career in 1988 at the age of 22 in the Egyptian Red Sea. Her work gained immediate acceptance with Danish and European publications. Her photographic files have since expanded to include coverage of the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Hawaii, the Galapagos Islands and Cocos Island.~~Birgitte's work has been published widely in magazines such as New York Times Magazine, Islands, National Wildlife, and Natural History, as well as books published by The National Wildlife Federation and the National Geographic Society.

Bob Barbour

24 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Bob was a masthead photographer for Surfing Magazine from 1975-1991, helping develop its reputation for photographic excellence alongside the other legends in surf photography. This well-traveled photographer is a Santa Cruz, CA resident and his prolific work has been featured in numerous surfing books, calendars, and every major surf publication, including Surfer's Journal and Surfer. ~~Three decades of images include beautiful waves, classic Woodie cars, and stunning shots of big wave pioneer Margo Oberg and others, plus pros and Santa Cruz standouts like Adam Repogle, Darryl "Flea" Virostko, Richard Schmidt and Terry Simms.~~Known best for helping "break" Mavericks publicly and capturing defining moments like the infamous 1994 Mavericks "WipeOut of the Decade" image of 16-year-old Jay Moriarity.

Brian Skerry

11 Jul 2023 12:00 am

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Brian Skerry is a photojournalist and film producer specializing in marine wildlife and underwater environments. Since 1998 he has been a contract photographer for National Geographic Magazine covering stories on every continent and in nearly every ocean habitat. In 2014 he was named as a National Geographic Photography Fellow and then named a National Geographic Society Storytelling Fellow in 2017. In 2017 he was also awarded the title of Rolex National ~Geographic Explorer of the Year.~~For NGM, Brian has covered a wide range of stories, from the harp seal’s struggle to survive in frozen waters to the alarming decrease in the world’s fisheries, to dolphin intelligence. During his coverage of a story entitled Saving Our Oceans, Brian produced the first images of a sitting US President underwater. He has had six NGM cover stories (US) and dozens worldwide. He is currently at work on his 30th feature story for NGM.~~Brian’s work has also been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Paris Match, Esquire and Audubon. He is the author of 12 books including the acclaimed monographs Ocean Soul and Shark. His latest book, Secrets of the Whales was released in April, 2021 by National Geographic as part of a multi-platform project he created that includes a cover story in National Geographic magazine and a 4-part documentary film series, streaming on Disney+, which won the 2021 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary.

Chase Dekker

10 Sep 2020 04:14 pm

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Chase was born and raised in Monterey, California where he was immediately introduced to the natural world. With whales, sea otters, seals, birds, and wildlife right on his doorstep, it wasn’t hard for him to fall in love with nature.~~He eventually moved up to Washington State where his passion for the outdoors took him to a brand new environment, filled with dense forests and mountains. Chase attended Western Washington University where he earned degrees in Organismal Biology and Zoology to help him understand the species he would be photographing for the rest of his life. Immediately after college, Chase moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming where he spent nearly every day out in Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks photographing the spectacular wildlife and landscapes.~~Recently, he relocated back to his hometown of Monterey, where he could be closer to the ocean and his family. Today, Chase has traveled across a good portion of the globe from the high arctic to the rainforests of Africa to the tropical waters of the South Pacific, all while bringing along his camera in an effort to document the invaluable wildlife and the land they call home. Chase continues to travel to far off destinations in search of new landscapes and animals in hopes that his photos can be used for future conservation efforts as a way to give a story and message imagery.~~During his photography career, he has been published in multiple magazines, articles, and newspapers, while also having some of his images shown on television networks such as ABC, PBS, and BBC. Some of his print publications include National Geographic, Lonely Planet, National Wildlife Federation, Nature's Best Photography, and many others. Chase was also a winner in the Windland Smith Rice International Awards and will have his photos hanging in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C.~~~Chase believes every photo tells a story and every story can inspire someone to make a change that will allow these great places and creatures a chance to last for generations to come.

Chien Lee

24 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Chien Lee holds a B.Sc. in Biology/Ecology from the University of California Santa Cruz. Having maintained a keen interest in nature since childhood, his enthusiasm has led him to study various subjects ranging from entomology to animal tracking and ethnobotany, and eventually to work as a naturalist and environmental educator in the East Bay Regional Parks in northern California. In 1996, fulfilling a lifelong desire to live in the tropics, he moved to Sarawak (East Malaysia, on the island of Borneo) to work in a program for the propagation of native plant species.~~Chien has always considered photography an excellent method to convey ideas and share his fascination about natural subjects encountered during his travels. His hobby became a professional endeavor in 2003. "Borneo is a fantastic place to live if you've got an insatiable interest in nature. It's easy for a photographer to get spoiled by the overwhelming diversity of subjects every time you're out. Of course working in the tropics presents some real obstacles for photography, but it's always worth the effort."~~Pitcher-plants (Nepenthes) have been a major focus of his studies for over 14 years. "A lot of my travel over the past decade has been for the documentation of rare Nepenthes and this has taken me to many really remote parts of Southeast Asia." His photographs have appeared in numerous articles and books, and are featured in "Pitcher Plants of Sarawak", "Pitcher Plants of Borneo", and "The Fishes of Kuching Rivers". He is currently a committee member of the Malaysian Nature Society (Kuching Branch), and the Kuching Bird Study Group.

Chris Newbert

24 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Since taking up underwater photography in 1972, Chris Newbert, has won many prestigious awards in international underwater photographic competitions. His photos have appeared in over 300 books and magazines world-wide. In 1985 he published his first underwater photographic book, "Within a Rainbowed Sea". The sequel published in 1994, "In a Sea of Dreams", included images by both Chris and his ex-wife Birgitte.~~Chris became the first recipient of the Wyland Foundation Award for Underwater Still Photography at the First Annual Wyland Foundation Awards Ceremony in Hollywood. This nationally televised extravaganza featured celebrity presenters from the entertainment and sports industry. Chris not only received this prestigious award, but his photographs were selected for the big screen background stills for this gala event. Other honored personalities included posthumous awards to Jacques Yves Cousteau and Lloyd Bridges. Living recipients in addition to Chris included Jimmy Buffet, Sting, Dr. Sylvia Earle, Ted Danson, Dan Fogelberg, Bob Talbot and Al Gore among others.

Christian Ziegler

1 Aug 2022 12:00 am

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Christian Ziegler is a photojournalist & filmmaker specializing in natural history and science-related topics. He works for Max-Planck Institute for Animal Behaviour in Konstanz as an outreach photographer. He is a regular contributor to National Geographic magazine, and has been widely published in other magazines like GEO. ~~Christian’s aim is to highlight species and ecosystems under threat and share their beauty, and importance with a broad audience. A tropical ecologist by training, he has worked in tropical rain forests on four continents, and for 12 years was Associate for Communications with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama. Christian photographed “A Magic Web”, an award winning coffee table book on tropical ecology on assignment for STRI, he has also published “Deceptive Beauties”, a book about wild orchids, and "Jungle spirits", a visual celebration of the world's tropical forests. He is a Canon Ambassador and a founding fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP.com). ~~Christian's work has been awarded prizes in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year and the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year competitions, and in 2017, he was honoured with the Outstanding Nature Photographer award by the North American Nature Photography Association. He has also won four World Press awards in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. Christian lives with his wife Daisy Dent and two kids, Freya and Benjamin, at the edge of a rain forest national park in central Panama for part of the year. For the rest of the year they live in southern Germany, from where he starts his adventures around the world.

Claus Meyer

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Born in Dusseldorf, Germany in 1944, Claus Meyer was an active photojournalist for over thirty years, covering subjects ranging from industry to wildlife. In the early 1970s, he went from drying prints in a commercial darkroom in Black Star Lab (New York), to becoming one of Brazil's leading photographers. When he moved to Rio de Janeiro, he was hired as a staff photographer with Editores Bloch, one of Brazil's largest magazine publishers. After a stint with Bloch, he started his own agency, the Agency Tyba. He lived and worked in Rio de Janeiro for over 27 years, where Black Star represented him. ~~His passion for nature photography began with a report on Russel Mittermeyer's profile for Smithsonian Magazine. Russel was then the president of World Wildlife Fund and was participating in the project, The Golden Lion Tamarin, in a biological reserve in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Claus also took part in Cousteau's scientific expedition to the Amazon, the Pro-Natura Ecological Institute expeditions to Pantanal, and other ecological Reserves. ~~For over 15 years, Claus photographed Caatinga, Cerrado, Rain Forest, Amazonian, and South Brazilian ecosystems for Editora Alumbramento Books. He made a lot of personal investments traveling through the forests and swamps of Brazil. He had a taste for adventure and loved to drive his Toyota or Land Rover through the fields. He enjoyed the harmony of nature, and could remain silent for hours, while photographing in the field. He also had a great admiration for the diversity in the Brazilian ecosystems. ~~Claus has been published in many books; Library of Nations, 14 Titles of the Day in the Life Series, Cyberspace 24 hours, Brazil of Photo (the special edition), and Circle of Life, to name a few. His work has also appeared in such notable magazines as Time, Newsweek, Life, Geo, Smithsonian, and Travel and Leisure. He has received several awards for his work including the Grand Prize Nikon International and the Gold Medal at the International Photographic Salon of Japan. ~~In 1996, Claus C. Meyer passed away, in Rio de Janeiro.

Colin Monteath

23 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Based in New Zealand, Colin Monteath is a polar and mountain photographer and writer who is passionate about wild places and expedition travel. In 1983, he founded Hedgehog House New Zealand with a commitment to increase an awareness of the need to preserve wilderness, especially in the high mountain and polar regions. ~~Since 1973, Colin has worked in Antarctica for 31 seasons. At New Zealand's Scott Base as Field Operations Officer (1973-83) , he helped co-ordinate New Zealand's science program and worked with the Scott Base huskies. In charge of the rescue team, Colin helped co-ordinate the recovery following the 1979 Air New Zealand crash near Mt Erebus. Colin acted as a guide for HRH Prince Edward in 1982. In 1978, on an expedition to Mount Erebus, Colin made the first descent into the inner crater. Colin has climbed numerous first ascents in the Transantarctic Mountains and in 1993, became the first New Zealander to reach the highest summit in Antarctica, Vinson Massif.~~Since 1983, Colin has worked as a guide for polar companies, principally Aurora Expeditions. He has guided peaks on the Antarctic Peninsula and has completed two crossings of South Georgia on Shackleton's route. In 1991, Colin joined a Soviet icebreaker to make the first surface vessel traverse of the Arctic Ocean via the North Pole - followed by a transit of the NE Passage in Siberia. In 1993, he dog sledged across Greenland and in 2008, skied across Svalbard.~~Colin has been a mountaineer for 40 years and has climbed New Zealand's Aoraki 13 times. In 1974, Colin was a member of the Commonwealth Andean Expedition in Peru's Cordillera Vilcanota. Colin's 21 Himalayan expeditions include....Australian Annapurna III Expedition (Nepal 1980) , New Zealand Garhwal Expedition (Shivling - India 1982), Australian Everest Expedition (First ascent White Limbo route North Face - Tibet 1984), New Zealand Pamirs Expedition (Pik Kommunizma USSR/Central Asia,1986), Australian Karakorum Expedition (first ascent Chongtar - Xinjiang, China, 1994), New Zealand Tibet Expedition (Gurla Mandhata, 1998), New Zealand Mongolia expedition (traverse of highest peak Mt Huiten, 2000) New Zealand expedition to Kangri Garpo mountains (Eastern Tibet, 2001), New Zealand Karakorum ski expedition to K2, Pakistan (2005), New Zealand ski expedition through Chador gorge and Zanskar Mountains (NW India 2006). In New Guinea, Colin guided a climb of Carstensz Pyramid (1995). On a ski expedition in 2002 Colin traversed Denali, North America's highest peak. ~~Colin has undertaken numerous photographic and magazine assignments to Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, Alaska, Greenland, Antarctica, Mongolia, Kenya, Siberia, Bhutan, Pakistan, Central Asia, Pakistan, India , China , Nepal and New Guinea. His images and feature stories have appeared in magazines such as GEO (Germany), National Geographic (USA), Australian Geographic (Australia), Terre Sauvage (France), The Geographical Magazine (UK), Conde Nast (UK, Spain), Rock and Ice (USA), Action Asia (Hong Kong ), Time (USA) and Mother Nature (Japan).~~Colin has worked on numerous book projects on the polar and mountain regions. He was the principal photographer for the Reader's Digest book Antarctica - Great Stories from the Frozen Continent (Australia, 1985), co-author of Smithsonian Institution Press's Wild Ice - Antarctic Journeys (USA, 1990) , author and principal photographer New Zealand - The land at the end of the Earth (White Star, Italy, 1996), author and photographer Antarctica - Beyond the Southern Ocean (NZ 1996), author and publisher Hall and Ball - Kiwi Mountaineers (NZ 1997), author and publisher of Under a Sheltering Sky - Journeys to Mountain Heartlands ( NZ 2003), photographer for New Zealand (National Geographic, USA, 2009), author and principal photographer Vanishing Wilderness of Antarctica (White Star, Italy 2009) and New Zealand's Mountains (NZ 2009), New Zealand Coasts (2010) and Antarctica - Land of Silence (2011).

Cyril Ruoso

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Cyril Ruoso, who trained as a scientist, more than anything else loves the experience of living in the middle of different habitats to unravel their mysteries. He spends his time observing the behavior of wild animals and perfecting his photographic techniques.~~Those special moments when he finds the animals, the long days spent observing them from his hiding place give him he says, the greatest joy any wildlife photographer could wish for.~For the past 10 years primates have been his favorite subject.~~He has been a pro since 1994, holds a degree in Plastic Arts/Visual communication and lives with French/German primatologist Emmanuelle Grundmann. Ruoso has an extensive publishing career including articles featured in National Geographic Magazine, VSD, Ranger Rick, National Wildlife and GEO.

Daniel J. Cox

16 Jan 2020 12:00 am

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For more than 38 years, Dan has been pursuing his lifelong dream of photographing nature in all its elements. He’s traveled to all seven continents, plying his craft in search of the images that help tell the stories that inspire his art. Driving rain, spitting snow, and howling wind are all part of the environment he calls home. For Dan, bad weather means great light, unusual cloud formations, and dramatic settings. Dan uses his exceptional vision and passion for nature to help educate and inspire his viewers. Internationally recognized, his dedication to his craft and the environment has earned him high regard in a very competitive profession.~~In 2013, Dan was awarded Outstanding Nature Photographer of the Year by North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) and was the 2023 recipient of their Environmental Impact Award. He’s also been awarded in competitions worldwide including BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year and Nature’s Best. His work has been featured in several galleries including Nikon House New York, the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and the Natural History Museum in London. Dan’s wide range of accomplishments include being a regular contributor to natural history publications worldwide, a field contributor for Outdoor Photographer, a consultant for Hewlett-Packard (HP) fine art printers, an honorary Nikon Legend Behind the Lens, and a mentor for American Photo’s Mentor Series photography workshops.

David Parer and Liz Parer-Cook

13 Jul 2022 12:00 am

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David Parer& Elizabeth Parer-Cook have been filming, photographing and producing wildlife documentaries for more than four decades. Their story-led programs for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Natural History Unit were co-produced with the BBC Natural History Unit, National Geographic Television, Discovery Channel, PBS WNET (New York), Canal Plus and many others& shown world-wide. ~~For the last 15 years David & Liz have worked as a freelance specialist wildlife camera team for independent film producers, filming & photographing humpback whales, great whites, spidercrabs, cuttlefish and many of Australia’s unique animals. They have a particular interest in the egg-laying mammals, the platypus and echidna, and have produced a book entitled “Platypus – World’s Strangest Animal”.

Donald M. Jones

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Donald M. Jones is a Montana-based wildlife photographer specializing in all formats of nature from the Arctic to deserts, from the swamps to the mountains and everywhere in between. Don's images are created from his overwhelming passion for being outdoors with cameras in tow. What began as a young boy with binoculars swaying form his neck and with bird book wedged in his back pocket in suburban Chicago has now transformed into a living dream.~~All of Don's wild subjects are just that, wild. Don refuses to photograph any subjects that are pets or are confined in zoos or game farms. His work is authentic and his message is "Keep the Wild in Wildlife".~~As a full-time professional wildlife photographer since 1993 Don has established himself as a driven individual in a saturated market by continually offering his clients new and refreshing images and subject matter year after year. His more than 700 magazine covers, which he has been credited with over his career, are testament to this.~~Don currently resides in the small town of Troy, Montana with his wife, Tess, and two boys, Jake and Luke and one not-so-intelligent yellow lab.

Duncan Usher

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Duncan Usher was born in the village of Allendale in 1954, in the heart of the Northumberland countryside. His childhood was spent ranging the fields, fells and wooded valleys of the surrounding countryside, discovering bird nests and observing the local wildlife, behavior and habits. This thirst for the outdoors was fueled by his parent's deep love and interest for the countryside and they taught and encouraged their four children to respect our natural heritage. The combination of his parent's influence and growing up in a rural setting, has molded his continuing fascination for the natural world.~~The camera seemed to be the ideal medium to achieve his aim and he bought my first film SLR 35mm. camera at the age of 21. Duncan started photographing wildlife in black and white. His early attempts were often overshadowed with more failures than successes. He had gathered and improved his field-craft at approaching wildlife from a very early age, but he felt he was not doing his subjects photographic justice. Through trial and error he would occasionally achieve an image which rewarded him for all the hardships and pitfalls and this spurred him on to improve his technical skills. Over the years he became interested in capturing other subjects, especially wild animals and he had started to use slide film material. With better equipment and improved technical experience he was obtaining images of wildlife that he had aimed for. His determination transformed a passionate hobby into a full time occupation.~~His first love was - and remains - birds. Inspired as a young teenager by a book of wildfowl paintings by Sir. Peter Scott, he started to draw and paint. This was obviously the stepping stone that led to his development as a bird photographer. He also felt an increasing need to express and share with other people the many encounters with wildlife that he had experienced, during the endless hours spent outdoors.

Flip de Nooyer

24 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Flip de Nooyer (1948-2004) was one of the best known nature photographers in the Netherlands. He practiced nature photography for decades. At the age of 10 he was already seriously beginning birder and photographer. In 2004, he was 15 years professional nature photographer and went around the world to make. "Wildlife" photos From Arctic to Antarctica and New Zealand to Brazil. On all continents, he put ashore.~~Flip's specialty was landscape, bird and mammal photography, but he actually photographed everything that has to do with nature. If human nature was respect for nature comes first, because as he said. "Nature should always prevail over the picture even though I earn with making nature's my money, the animal remains the most important thing."~~His photographs have appeared in numerous publications, including in the journals Nature, Browsing, Unexpected Netherlands, Panda, Birds, Tam-Tam, Free Birds and Wadden Bulletin. But also books, leaflets, posters, (Christmas) cards, calendars and websites contain pictures of his hand.~~Flip de Nooyer worked with and photographed for various Dutch nature conservation organizations such as the World Wildlife Fund, Nature Reserves, State Forest and the Wadden Sea Society. Every year with the Wadden Sea Society, he made a "Wadden Calendar", 2004 was his 10th calendar. In 2000 he made the calendar and agenda for the Preservation of Nature. Furthermore Flip kept many temporary exhibitions, and various visitor he has made the permanent exhibits. He has also given slide shows throughout the Netherlands.~~In 1988 and 1989 Nooyer received an international award in the world's most important for wildlife photography competition in London , England, "BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year ". In November 1995, he was "Nature Photographer of the Year 1995" by the NFG with a photo of a Little Bittern, a rare species in the Netherlands.

Flip Nicklin

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Widely regarded as the premier whale photographer of the world, Flip Nicklin, a National Geographic photographer, has more than 5,500 dives under his belt. His ability to free dive to depths of up to 70 feet allows him to swim near enough to record whale behavior without interrupting it. ~~Flip Nicklin was born with both diving and photography in his blood. His father, Chuck, is a diver and underwater cinematographer, who taught his sons to become scuba divers. At the age of fourteen, he was helping his father teach people to dive off of the coast of Southern California, in La Jolla. ~~His first contact with National Geographic Society came in 1976 when he was signed on as a deck hank and diving assistant for a three-month shoot with photographers Bates Littlehales and Jonathan Blair. Everyday he shot with the photographers, a life-long dream for him. With the help of his mentors, two of his images were published, along with theirs in the Geographic. ~~The publication of these two shots, began his career as an underwater photographer. He went on to shoot sharks and whales for the Geographic centennial issue. Eight years after his first publication, he had become the main underwater photographer for the Geographic.

Fred Bavendam

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Fred Bavendam is an American with a passion for marine animals and photography. After growing up in Ohio, he attended the University of New Hampshire from which he graduated with majors in art and zoology. He spent the next few years working as a commercial photographer. At the age of 28, Fred took an introductory scuba course and began diving and taking underwater pictures as a hobby. Over time, the hobby became an obsession until he abandoned commercial photography to devote all his efforts to underwater photography in 1985. ~~Fred's goal, as he takes each picture, is to capture the essence that makes each animal a unique being and the behaviors that allow it to survive in a hungry ocean. He likes nothing more than to take a diver (or even several divers) along with him to follow, observe and photograph a single animal. As a result, his pictures are highly sought after and have been published in many of the world's top magazines. ~~Fred's definitive photo essays about manatees, the giant octopus, crinoids and frogfishes were each published in National Geographic, Geo Germany and Geo France. Additional stories on cuttlefish, nudibranchs, sea stars, monkfish and marine animal behavior have appeared in many other magazines such as Figaro, Terre Sauvage, Airone, International Wildlife, Smithsonian, Newton and Quark. He has also won several BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year contests.

Gary Bell

18 Sep 2020 11:41 am

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Gary Bell is the founder of Oceanwide Images Stock Photo Library and a distinguished nature and wildlife photographers, both in Australia, where he resides, and the world. His dedication and passion for capturing moments in nature has won him a string of international awards with work featured in major nature magazines, such as National Geographic, Australian Geographic, numerous books, advertising campaigns and many other publications.~~Behind this brilliant photographer is a man with a deep respect for wildlife and the environment - with a passion to explore new ecosystems and capture on camera the extraordinary beauty of the natural world. Gary has traveled throughout Australia and the Indo Pacific, enjoying the challenges of nature photography (and its inherent dangers).

Gerry Ellis

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Gerry Ellis is one of the premier nature and environmental photographers in the world. His photography has been singled out for its vision of nature through ecosystems and for his images of creatures within their environment-not apart from it. Gerry's approach combines his rich scientific knowledge of nature's interrelationships with an experienced artistic eye refined over two decades in the wilds. ~~A tireless explorer, Gerry's journeys reach remote locales on every continent in an effort to document some of the world's most endangered creatures wild in their habitat. Gerry's photography of, and passion for, great apes and rainforests, and involvement in the organizations trying to save each, has established him as leader in the field of conservation photography. Other major projects include more than forty journeys to Africa, long-term projects in Papua New Guinea's remote tropical rainforests, seventeen crossings of the infamous Drake Passage to Antarctica and three years living on the continent of Australia. ~~Raised in the visually lush surroundings of the United State's Pacific Northwest region, Gerry's initial wanderings lead him directly into the heart of nature. As a youth, he could hike uninterruptedly into the foothills of Mount Rainier from his back porch. Experiences in the wilderness and encounters with wildlife such as black bear and the reclusive spotted owl laid a permanent natural foundation for his future photographic work.

Heidi and Hans-Jurgen Koch

22 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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The photographers have a long-time experience in working on very different animal topics and in the realization of extensive and challenging projects around the world. Most of the time they are shooting on assignment, but they do this in a pretty independent way. Heidi & Hans-Jurgen handle the complete production, from the first idea to the final exposure, including research, location scouting, finding the right animals, creative collaboration with scientists and breeders, and a precise planning with the competence to work spontaneously.~~Over the years the couple has created an extraordinary body of work. Whether it's wildlife or domestic animals, the studio or the field, reportage or illustration, business meets passion. ~~Photographers Credo: "However we all want to see animals, one thing is for sure, animals are on the far side anyway - we only picture them.~~Heidi & Hans-Jurgen made their home in Freiburg, Germany.

Heike Odermatt

13 Jul 2022 12:00 am

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Born and raised in the southern part of Germany Heike Odermatt lives now in the Netherlands for most of her life. In 2002 she launched her career with a trip to Iceland, followed by many trips to the northern hemisphere but also to the Falkland Islands in the sub-Antarctic zone. In recent years she mainly shoot close to home. Trips dedicated to nature photography in a fair and responsible manner. We are after all nature's guest. Nature photography is for her more than a passion, it’s a way of living and also a life's purpose.~~She photographs also the most common and everyday things in nature in such a way that it becomes something special. With a wide range of subjects, Heike tries to portray the beauty but also the vulnerability of our nature and to make others aware of it. ~~Her work has been awarded in several prestigious international competitions.

Hiroya Minakuchi

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Hiroya Minakuchi studied Marine Biology in University and then worked as an editor in the field of natural science for a publishing company before becoming a freelance wildlife photographer. He has been taking photos and researching Whales and Dolphins for more than 35 years all over the world. He has recently traveled to the Arctic, Antarctic region and tropical rain forest to research environmental change of this planet.~~He has published more than 50 books including "Encyclopedia of Whales and Dolphins", "Encyclopedia of Galapagos", "Orca", "Amazon Dolphin", "Whale Odyssey", "Big Blue", "Nature Photo Guide" and most of which he also edited.

Ingo Arndt

19 Jul 2022 12:00 am

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Ingo was born in 1968 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and since 1992 he has worked as a freelance wildlife photographer. During childhood, he spent every single minute of his spare time outdoors in nature. At a very early age, he realized that photography could be a useful tool when applied to nature protection. Immediately after finishing school, he plunged himself into the adventurous life of professional photography. Since then, he has travelled around the globe developing in-depth coverage in which he portrays animals and their habitats over the course of several weeks. Ingo's objective with his imagery is to stir the emotions of his viewing audience and to lead them into the richness of nature. ~~Arndt's photographs are mainly published in international magazines including National Geographic and GEO. Arndt has received numerous awards for his photography. Several of his images were winners at the "Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition“ and the "European Wildlife Photographer of the Year". In 2005 and 2019 his work was awarded at the World Press Photo Contest, in 2006 Ingo received the German Award for Science Photography and in 2008 and 2012 the "GDT Fritz Poelking Award“. Ingo has published 21 books so far.

James Christensen

24 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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James Christensen spent his childhood roaming the forests and fields of southern British Columbia in search of wildlife. Although he became a dedicated birder at an early age, reptiles and amphibians were the principal objects of his attention. However, the paucity of snakes in his native Canada left him dreaming of tropical adventure.~~That first tropical adventure was to take place in Panama, where, as a member of the U.S. Army's Ranger Regiment, James attended the Jungle Operations Training Center at Fort Sherman. While there he became especially adept at evading his superiors in order to slip alone into the beckoning rain forest with binoculars and bird guide. He was enthralled, and vowed to return unfettered by military regulation. Thus began James's Neotropical romance.~~Those years in the infantry contributed much to his future work as a nature photographer: endless patience, endurance under trying conditions, attention to detail, stealth afield , these traits befit soldier and naturalist alike. And he learned to crawl, to hug the earth , like a snake. ~~Panama subsequently became the location for much of James's field work and he has become increasingly familiar with the diverse flora and fauna of that country over the years. Additionally, James has spent much time shooting in Ecuador, particularly in the vicinity of Mindo, in the western foothills of the Andes. It was there that he succeeded in capturing the first extensive professional imagery of the recently re-discovered Horned Anole. In so doing he recorded ,the first natural history observations of the species, according to Dr. Jonathan Losos of Harvard University. These observations led to a co-authorship of the 2012 paper, Morphology, Phylogeny, and Behavior of Anolis proboscis, by Dr. Steven Poe et al. James's photos depict courtship and mating, and also aggressive interactions between males. The images went far to illuminate the function of the bizarre appendage upon the snout of the male of this rare and enigmatic lizard.~~In his work James frequently cooperates with biologists and with members of the local conservation community. He believes strongly in the value of photography as an essential tool in the cause of conservation. Concentrating as he does on creatures ,less loved, he hopes that his images will provide an intimate view into the lives of animals that are at best overlooked, at worst even reviled and persecuted. Snakes and spiders require diplomacy, and James is more than glad to serve as their ambassador.

Jami Tarris

10 Sep 2020 12:00 am

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Jami is an award-winning nature photographer focusing on conservation, endangered species and fragile habitats. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and been photographing for over 30 years. She has been published in books, magazines and newspapers worldwide including National Geographic, Africa Geographic, BBC Wildlife, Outside, The Guardian, Focus Germany, and Ranger Rick to name a few. ~~Jami travels worldwide to all continents working on projects that contribute to the awareness of current and acute conservation issues. She was one of the founders of Community Wildlife Fund, a non-profit organization established in Kenya whose objective is to protect wildlife from poaching and the bushmeat trade. CWF is also dedicated to the education of local communities in remote villages surrounding game reserves and national parks.~~From 2016 - 2018, Jami worked on a project focusing on the negative impact of palm oil agriculture in Indonesia working with Dr. Birute Galdikas (Orangutan Foundation International) and Dr. Ian Singleton (The Orangutan Project / Sumatra Orangutan Conservation Programme). Today, she does slideshow lectures educating people about the effects of palm oil on wildlife and pristine habitats. ~~In 2018, she worked in a remote forest research camp with a research team following the newly discovered Tapanuli orangutan shortly after it was discovered in 2017. Tracking the Tapanuli orangutans in steep and muddy rainforests starting at 4:30 am (to reach their nests before they move) until 7:00pm (when they settle in to their new nest for the night) was one of the most physically challenging projects that she ever took on. She would gladly do it again!

Jan Vermeer

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Jan has been working as a full-time professional photographer for over fifteen years. Nature is his greatest source of inspiration so it is hardly surprising that Jan can often be found in his enormous "backyard", otherwise known as the Veluwe. The diversity of landscapes here, including woodland, heathland, and Europe's largest drift-sand area, Kootwijkerzand, continue to be a favourite subject. The drift-sand area is a particularly unusual spot with extreme weather conditions, where the elements of nature still have free reign.~~In addition to his busy activities in the Netherlands, Jan's work has taken on an increasingly international dimension. During the past few years he has visited the polar regions intensively. The results of these extraordinary journeys to Antarctica, Spitsbergen, Greenland, Iceland and Russia are documented in diverse portfolios. Jan's work has been featured in journals such as Panda, Natuurbehoud, National Geographic Traveler and KLM Holland Herald. Each year a large number of calendars, agendas and diaries are published both nationally and internationally.~~Jan sees photography as his life's purpose and true passion: his life's purpose because he wants his photos to show the impending decline and disappearance of the Earth's remaining pristine ecosystems; his true passion because he is constantly seduced into the great outdoors by the beauty of nature. Jan seeks to portray the unique nature of his subjects. He is one with his camera, turning into a painter-cum-poet who photographs animal life, landscapes, and plant life in all their splendor. Two factors that greatly influence the appearance of his images are form and composition.~~Jan's photos have been awarded prizes in prestigious photo competitions on numerous occasions. Please refer to the awards section for further information. Jan's foremost priority is and continues to be his deep desire to show us the beauty of the Earth and to inspire us to treat her with greater reverence. In his own words: "My aim is to evoke awe and reverence."

Jasper Doest

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Jasper Doest is a dedicated photographer based in The Netherlands. He specializes in nature, wildlife and conservation photography. With his work and through this website Jasper tries to show the beauty and fragility of our natural world. Through Minden Pictures he is able to supply a wide range of subjects to publishers, editors and advertisers worldwide. Over the past years, his photographs have received several international awards and have been published by a variety of renowned international media. Besides photography, Jasper offers complete nature articles, lectures and photographic tours worldwide.

Jaymi Heimbuch

13 Jul 2022 12:00 am

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Oregon-based wildlife conservation photographer Jaymi Heimbuch specializes in visual stories that inspire a reconnection with the natural world. Her current long-term photographic project is focused on coastal watersheds and the species that depend on them. Jaymi is the founder of Conservation Visual Storytellers Academy where she teaches conservation photography. She is co-founder of Her Wild Vision Initiative, a volunteer with the North American Nature Photography Association, and a volunteer instructor with Girls Who Click, a nonprofit that encourages young girls to get involved with nature photography. Her photography and writing has been published by National Geographic publications, Heyday Books, Audubon, BBC Wildlife, Geo, National Wildlife Magazine, Ranger Rick and many more.

Jean-Louis Klein and Marie-Luce Hubert

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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In 1989, Marie-Luce Hubert and Jean-Louis Klein met during an expedition on the Northeast coast of Greenland and discovered their common passion for the fauna, photography and the huge solitary spaces.~After the drafting of two books dedicated, one to the nature of the Vosges mountains, the other one to the trees of Europe, Jean-Louis and Marie-Luce decided to dedicate themselves exclusively to wildlife photography and became professional in 1993. Since then they have traveled extensively in the Arctic, Antarctica, Africa, Australia, Asia and North America, photographing the wild canines (wolf, jackal, coyote, arctic fox, dingo), the great apes, marine mammals and wild horses. Their journeys in the isolated regions of the globe have been real adventures during which they have been able to quench their thirst for travel whilst deepening their knowledge of the animal kingdom. Wherever in the world they may be, one of the keys to the couple's success is the intimate relationship they establish, with limitless patience, with their subjects. ~~** Their images are available only to our North American clients. **

Jeff Foott

24 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Having had the good fortune to work and play in nature most of my early life, it became obvious to me I had to spend my life outside. After working as a National Park Ranger, a mountain climbing guide, ski patrolman and a few other lesser jobs, I went back to school in marine biology, doing research on sea otters, which at the time were in trouble. I had come to love these creatures and set out naively thinking that if I could only portray to the public how they survived the ocean storms, raised their young and the danger of extinction they faced, then the otters would be saved.~~This was my entry into photography. I first took still pictures for lectures and magazine articles, and then started a film about this unique creature. The film was eventually shown in over 100 countries to an estimated 100 million people. I had found a platform to speak from. Forty-five films later, some for National Geographic, Discovery, PBS, BBC, etc., I am still working to portray what we have in the natural world, and its importance to our spiritual direction in a time where the calm of nature is less reflected in our beings than at any other time in the history of man.~~Along the way, I added art to the biology. My last film for The Living Eden series, Patagonia, was a finalist for an Emmy for cinematography. I have continued to shoot still pictures, now often focusing on the simple beauty and design of nature. I have changed mediums from large format 4x5, to shooting digital. I have never lost touch with the original motivation of using the photography medium to show people the wonder and beauty of nature, and making a plea for sanity in dealing with our natural environment. Pristine natural environments provide optimum opportunity for each of us to experience the calm and wholeness of our being, which is really our natural state. While searching for photographs, I rely on what touches my center, and then with logic and camera I make the effort to pass on to the viewer the original feeling that drew me to the scene. - Jeff Foott

Jim Brandenburg

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Minnesota photographer, Jim Brandenburg, began his career as a natural history photographer and film maker while majoring in studio art at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. He went on to become Picture Editor at the Worthington Daily Globe in southern Minnesota. While at the Daily Globe Brandenburg began freelancing for the National Geographic Magazine. ~~In 1978, Brandenburg became a contract photographer for the National Geographic Society. He has since worked on numerous projects including: The American Prairie - Roots of The Sky; The Land They Knew - A Portfolio; Namibia; Bamboo - The Giant Grass; The Tallgrass Prairie; The Canadian Rockies; South Dakota Badlands; World of Aldo Leopold; Rhinos; Viking Trail East; North to the Pole; Red Deer; Kiwifruit; At Home with the Arctic Wolf; and Ellesmere Island - Life in the High Arctic. Brandenburg's work in Manchuria was featured in a National Geographic book on China; his work on the Highlands of Scotland was featured in another National Geographic book, Discovering Britain and Ireland. ~~In addition, Brandenburg has done assignment work and has been published in The New York Times, Life, Audubon, Smithsonian, Natural History, World, Geo, Airone, Modern Maturity, BBC Wildlife, National Wildlife, Terre Sauvage, Outside and numerous other national and international publications. ~~In 1981 and again in 1983, Brandenburg was named "Magazine Photographer of the Year" by the National Press Photographer's Association (NPPA) . In 1988 he was named "Kodak Wildlife Photographer of the Year" by the Natural History Museum - London and BBC Wildlife Magazine. In 1981 Brandenburg was commissioned by the United States Postal Service to photograph and design as set of ten wildlife stamps, which were released on May 14, 1981. These stamps were included in the exhibit - Graphic Design in America, which toured the United States and England in 1990. ~~Brandenburg has published many award-winning books including BROTHER WOLF - A FORGOTTEN PROMISE (1993); WHITE WOLF - LIVING WITH AN ARCTIC LEGEND (1988); MINNESOTA - IMAGES OF HOME (1990), as well as four children's books; TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD - Adventures with Arctic Wolves (1993); SAND AND FOG - Adventures in Southern Africa (1994); AMERICAN SAFARI - Adventures on the North American Prairie (1995) and SCRUFFY - A Wolf Finds His Place in the Pack (1996). ~~A National Geographic/BBC Television documentary also called "White Wolf" was aired on National Geographic Explorer in 1988 and was released as a video in 1989. Brandenburg was Producer, Director and Cinematographer of this documentary. ~~Brandenburg's photographs have won a multitude of national and international awards with inclusion in "Life's Collector's edition - The World's Best Photographs 1980-1990". ~~In 1991 Brandenburg was a recipient of the World Achievement Award from the United Nations Environmental Programme in Stockholm, Sweden in recognition of his "using nature photography to raise public awareness for the environment."~~Brandenburg serves on the board of directors for the Defenders of Wildlife, the Friends of Boundary Waters Canoe Area, and the Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center. In addition, he donates his time and work to numerous other environmental groups.

John Eastcott and Yva Momatiuk

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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A husband and wife team, nature photographers John Eastcott and Yva Momatiuk often work in remote, wild places, looking for the spiritual essence of wilderness. They followed wild horses of the American West for years. They spent many seasons in Alaska, including its Arctic regions and the windswept islands of the Bering Sea. They explored the American Southwest, the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the steamy river swamps of the South and the polar realm of the Canadian Arctic. They worked in New Zealand, Afghanistan and Kashmir, as well as in Europe and Africa. ~~Born in Poland, Yva fell in love with nature photography at the age of 8, while watching grainy B/W documentary films depicting animals living in remote swamps of Eastern Poland. She has a Master's degree in architecture, and worked as a designer for a prestigious New York firm before she left the Manhattan landscape for Wyoming, where she trained horses, photographed and wrote. Originally from New Zealand, John published his first book of photographs at the age of 17, earned his degree in photography in London, and met Yva in Wyoming near the Grand Tetons. Soon after, they proposed their first story idea to National Geographic magazine and saw it accepted. ~~Their photographic essays appeared in National Geographic, Audubon, Smithsonian, Geo France, Geo Spain, Geo Russe, BBC Wildlife, Nature's Best, Terre Sauvage, Stern, Focus, The Observer, Wildlife Conservation, Equinox , Sinra and Nature Canada. Their images were printed by Life, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Natural History, Geo Germany, Travel and Leisure, The Sophisticated Traveler, Illustre, Panorama, Elle, Airone, Gente Viaggi, BBC World, Outdoor Photographer, Camera 35, Modern Photography, The Geographic Magazine, Nature Canada, Harry Abrams, Chanticleer Press, Grolier, Reader's Digest Books. Their images have been used for advertising campaigns by BMW, Ford, Toyota, Canon, and major pharmaceutical and computer companies. ~~John and Yva published six books: High Country, (A.W.&A.H. Reed,) This Marvellous Terrible Place; Images of Newfoundland and Labrador, and In a Sea of Wind; Images of the Prairies (both Camden House Publishing,) as well as Mustang (Rufus Publications, 1996) with an essay by Sharon Curtin, and two books for children in 2009, Face to Face with Wild Horses and Face to Face with Penguins, both in the acclaimed National Geographic Society series. They lectured recently at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles.~~When not in the field, John and Yva hang their hats on a hilltop with a sweeping view of old river valleys bordering the Catskills near Hurley, NY.

Juergen and Christine Sohns

16 Jan 2020 12:00 am

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Juergen and Christine Sohns travel the world to capture their wildlife photographs. Leading photo tours to Australia, Africa and around Europe they hare their knowledge and techniques with bot amateur and professional photographers.

Katherine Feng

16 Jan 2020 12:00 am

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In 1982 Katherine Feng was invited by the government of the People's Republic of China to participate in a memorial ceremony in honor of her grandfather, General Feng Yuxiang (General Feng is a national hero famous for ousting the last emperor from Beijing's Forbidden City and setting up the Imperial Palace as a museum for the people of China, his battles against the Japanese during World War II, and the great love he had for his country). Katherine immediately fell in love with China, its people, landscape, and ancient heritage. She has since traveled to China numerous times to discover her roots and photograph giant and red pandas

Kevin Schafer

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Kevin Schafer is an award-winning natural history photographer whose photographs appear in all of the major science and nature publications in the United States including National Geographic, Smithsonian, Natural History and National Wildlife. He also works regularly with conservation organizations such as the Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund and is a founding Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers.

Konrad Wothe

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Konrad Wothe loves nature, traveling and the creativity required to work behind a camera. He began taking photographs at the age of eight, when he received his first basic camera. At the tender age of 18, he won first prize in the "Jugend forscht" competition for building a 360 degree panoramic camera.~~After graduating from high school, he worked as a cameraman for the German wildlife filmmaker Mr. Heinz Sielmann. He soon decided that he too wanted to become a wildlife filmmaker and nature photographer. Before launching his career in photography, he studied biology and animal behavior at the University of Munich, which has proven to provide a good foundation for his job today.~~For over 20 years Konrad Wothe has been been working as a freelance nature photographer and filmmaker all over the world. He has photographed animals, plants, landscapes and more at many of the most beautiful sites between the Arctic and the Antarctic. Konrad's main focus is to document animals in their natural habitat, exhibiting their particular character and typical behavior. His recent work focuses on the world's rainforests and in an effort to draw attention to this essential biosphere he has been presenting educational slide presentations over the past few years.~~He is a member of the German Wildlife Photographers Association (GDT).

Luciano Candisani

24 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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The work of photographer Luciano Candisani shows the world's vast wilderness areas through images that seek to reveal the link between species, including humans, with the environment. The interruption of this link, by the habitat's destruction, is one of the main threats for the biodiversity and indigenous cultures conservation.~His story for the National Geographic magazine, "The Comeback Croc" (July 2013 issue), is an good example of his creative motivation and style. It presents a fresh visual interpretation on the life of Pantanal Caiman, a species that strongly depend on the dynamics of the water in the world's biggest wetland . One of the pictures on this feature has awarded him first place in one of the categories of the prestigious 2012 Wildlife Photographer of the year.~~Candisani started his career as a photographer for scientific expeditions, while he was still a graduate student at the Biosciences Institution of São Paulo University. His first great professional opportunity was a three months expedition to Antarctic frozen seas to document the marine life under the ice in 1996. Since then, his assignments have taken him to some of the world's most remote places, such as Antarctic, Patagonia, Amazon, Rocas Atoll, Darwin and Wof Islands, Falkland islands, and Philippines Danajon Banks.~~Nowadays, he is a contributing photographer for National Geographic and author of 7 photographic books, several exhibitions, workshops and stories featured in other key publications worldwide, such as Geo and BBC wildlife. ~Luciano also had completed several assignments exclusively for the Brazilian edition of the National Geographic. One of these stories, "The Hippie Monkeys" (2002 ) won first prizes in four categories of the Abril Journalism Awards, including the top award of distinction in photography of the year. The great repercussion of his story brought real benefits to conservation efforts of this very endangered primate which is between the 25th world's most endangered monkeys according to IUCN red list.~~Luciano was born in Brazil and lives with his family between the rainforest and the sea in "Ilhabela", an island protected by a huge natural reserve in the southeastern Brazilian coast.

Mark Moffett

13 Jul 2022 12:00 am

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Described as a "world-roving zoologist" by National Geographic magazine for his work on five continents, Dr. Mark W. Moffett has documented virtually every major active canopy research site and explored the behavior of many species—most famously, the ants. ~~Moffett has been exploring the world's jungles for most of his life. His contact with the rainforest habitat began at the age of 17 when he joined an expedition to Costa Rica and became the scientific team's resident snake catcher. After earning a bachelor's degree from Beloit College, he began graduate studies at Harvard working under E.O. Wilson, one of the world's greatest biologists. Under Wilson's tutelage, Moffett built an extensive knowledge of ants, based on 28 months of travel in Asia for his Ph.D.~~It was while conducting fieldwork for his doctoral dissertation that Moffett discovered his talent for nature photography. He taught himself the technique of macrophotography and began taking pictures of tiny creatures—and eventually, many other subjects—for the National Geographic, which was first to print his images, now numbering many hundreds in that magazine. ~~Stephen Colbert proclaimed that Moffett's children’s book “Face to Face With Frogs” as “gorgeous, I wish I was in it,” while the Boston Globe described his "The High Frontier,” a book that transported the reader into the tropical rainforest canopy, as "A stunning mix of adventure, nature photography and hard scientific inquiry that ranks with the best work of Jacques Cousteau.” "Take a look at daring eco-adventurer Mark Moffett’s spectacular new Adventures Among Ants,” Margaret Atwood wrote of his next book in the New York Review of Books. His most recent, 2019 book,“The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall,” concerning the origins of societies in humans and other animals, is “a book of wonders,” or so says the New Statesman.~~Moffett has been a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard and is currently Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution. He has had solo photography exhibits at the Smithsonian and National Geographic. Moffett has earned a Poynter Fellowship in Journalism from Yale, the Bowdoin Prize for writing from Harvard, the Lowell Thomas Medal for exploration from the Explorers Club, and a Roy Chapman Andrews Lifetime Achievement Award for Research and Exploration.

Mark Raycroft

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Mark Raycroft is a professional photographer and biologist who has spent more than 25 years traversing North America, chronicling the life cycles and ecological challenges of species that evoke the spirit of the wild. Mark specializes in photographing and filming the icons of the north country: Moose, Caribou, Elk, Bears, Deer, Mountain Sheep, to highlight a few. Mark has authored several books, including the award-winning “MOOSE: Crowned Giant of the Northern Wilderness” and the newly released “CARIBOU: Wind Walkers of the Northern Wilderness”. ~~Mark divides his year between photographing wildlife and dogs, his work has been widely published around the globe. Mark and his wife Pili manage the photography business from their home in Ontario, Canada.

Martin van Lokven

10 Sep 2020 04:56 pm

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Martin has been a professional photographer since 1996 and specializes in landscape, nature, wildlife, humans & nature, water & infrastructure, travel and fine art.

Martin Willis

20 Jul 2022 12:00 am

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Originally from country Western Australia, Martin grew up roaming the Australian bush developing from a very early age a passion for birds and other forms of wildlife. Later a career as an Art and Photography teacher saw Martin combine his artistic talents and love for wildlife to commence his collection of photographic images.~~Now as a full-time freelance nature photographer Martin’s primary focus is on the Australian natural world but continues to photograph wildlife worldwide. High technical quality, and a sensitive, artistic approach to the subject has resulted in Martin’s images being published by a wide range of international publishers. Recent notable publications include National Geographic’s, ‘Wildlife as Canon Sees It’ and spreads in Swarovski Optik promotional calendars.~~Martin shoots mirrorless digital with professional Canon lenses and bodies and uses the latest computer technology to ensure the images are presented to the public in their most visually appealing form.

Matthias Breiter

21 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Breiter was born in 1964 in Heidelberg, Germany and developed a keen interest in nature at an early age. His passion for wild places and an emerging desire to travel the far corners of the world and explore the unknown brought him to China, and after graduation from high school, to Alaska. ~~Upon returning to Germany in 1983, Breiter studied biology at the University of Heidelberg. After finishing undergraduate work he received a one-year scholarship from the University of Massachusetts to attend graduate school at Amherst where he spent six months working on an independent study project in Glacier National Park in Montana. ~~He returned to Germany in 1989 and received his Masters Degree in Biology from the University of Heidelberg. Although he had an oppurtunity to enter the Ph.D. program, he decided to put a university career on hold to focus on photographing and filming natural history subjects and to employ his acquired knowledge in the writing of natural history guidebooks, wildlife monographs and film scripts. ~~He wrote a German language natural history guide to Alaska's Denali National Park & Preserve, which was produced in co-operation with the United States National Park Service. In 1992/1993, he spent 8 months in Northern Australia to work on a natural history and cultural heritage guide to Kakadu National Park. ~~His two most recent books are a natural history guide to Western Canada and Alaska which has been translated into several languages, and "The Bears of Katmai", that was published in German and English. His newest book, "Bears: A Year in the Life", was published in 2005.~~In the year 2000, Breiter returned to his biological roots to conduct research into the behavioral ecology of bears, particularly into the role of aggression in bear behavior. The results of this study will be incorporated into a doctoral thesis defended at the Zoological Institute at the University of Heidelberg in Germany.

Michael and Patricia Fogden

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Michael and Patricia began their careers as research biologists. Michael studied Zoology at Oxford University. He did undergraduate research on gulls under Nobel Prize winner Dr. Niko Tinbergen and gained his doctorate studying rainforest birds in Borneo. Patricia studied Zoology and Botany at Manchester University and obtained her doctorate at London University with her thesis on dentition of bats. Subsequently she spent six years as a Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Hong Kong. ~~Since 1968, Michael and Patricia have worked together. At first they continued as research biologists, completing projects in Uganda and Mexico. Then, in 1978, they became freelance naturalists, photographing and writing about wildlife around the world. They are based in Costa Rica and specialize in rainforest subjects but have also worked extensively in the deserts of Namibia and Australia. Their research backgrounds are reflected in their photographic projects, which focus on animal behaviour and interactions between plants and animals. They often collaborate with research workers, as seen in the books "Snakes" by Professor Harry Greene and "The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica" by Professor Jay Savage. ~~Michael and Patricia have continued their research interests in the cloud forest around their home in Monteverde. Their long-term observations have been used to link changes in local wildlife populations, including catastrophic declines of snakes and frogs, with global warming.

Michael Durham

24 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Using unconventional techniques and custom equipment, internationally published photographer Michael Durham explores the secretive and hidden side of nature. "So much of the complex web of life that connects everything in an ecosystem together is just out of sight, but a camera can be used to see where the human eye may be inadequate."~~Working closely with researchers, zoologists, and biologists, Michael contributes his skill with the camera, and his knowledge of composition and light, to their work. Biologist E. O. Wilson once wrote: "Every kind of organism has reached this moment in time by threading one needle after another, against nearly impossible odds. It is my intention that my images reflect this reality."~~Born in 1964 in Oregon, Michael started his photo career in commercial photography and eventually migrated into natural history and journalism. His work has appeared in books and magazines in Europe and North America, including Nature's Best, National Wildlife, Sierra, Defenders, Nature Conservancy Magazine, BBC Wildlife, Orion, National Geographic for Kids, and many more.

Michael Quinton

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Michael Quinton has always wanted to be an eyewitness to the wildlife of the North American wilderness. He was inspired to become a photographer by earlier twentieth century naturalist photographers and after looking through the National Geographic magazines in his grandmother's pantry. ~~Michael Quinton's interest in stalking free-roaming grizzlies with a camera grew into an incurable desire to be in grizzly country. Each spring refreshes his urge to braid his tracks with those of the mountain grizzly. Equipped with powerful lenses and a learned respect for these dangerous and endangered bears, he is content to watch the bears from a distance, and, when the chance offers itself, to capture a moment in their lives. ~~Michael considers himself a naturalist first, and a photographer second. He has spent much of his career photographing the wildlife of Yellowstone National Park. He and his family now live in Alaska's interior on the northwestern edge of the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. ~~In Alaska Michael has photographed the boreal forest wildlife communities, tundra species of birds, mammals, fish, and smaller life forms and freshwater species of fish from the small dolly vardin to the big Chinook salmon. ~~"I am lucky to be doing what I love and being able to share what I see with my photographs is a dream come true."

Michio Hoshino

23 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Michio Hoshino was born in Ichikawa City, Chiba Perfecture, Japan in 1952. At the age of 17, a photo of an Eskimo village on the northwest coast of Alaska in National Geographic Magazine struck a chord in Michio and inspired him to explore the vast wilderness. During the summer of 1972, he traveled to Shishmaref, Alaska to live with the town's mayor. ~~He returned to Japan and went on to study and graduate from Keio University in 1976 with a major in economics. In 1978, he left his native Japan and pursued a life-long wish to live and work in Alaska. After four years of studying wildlife management at the University of Alaska's College of Natural Sciences, he became a professional photographer concentrating on Alaskan nature and wildlife. ~~His professional career as a photographer began in 1986 when his work on the Grizzly Bear was published by Chronicle Books in "GRIZZLY". The book won the 3rd Anima award, which is given to the book with the most distinguished wildlife photography. The Chicago Tribune called the book, "a bold and beautiful saga in which he followed a family of Alaskan grizzlies meandering through the seasons."~~The following year, he published an article on "Moose", in National Geographic Magazine, and later in 1988, he was commissioned by the Society to shoot the migratory route of Caribou in Alaska. Subsequently, he published the material in a book entitled, "CARIBOU". In 1988, Hoshino's photos of Alaskan scenery and wildlife were featured in a special issue of Audubon magazine. This same year, he published a book called "MOOSE" in both English and Japanese. Forbes magazine praised the book for its "startling shots of bulls in battle for their own breeding territory." ~~In 1989, a photography exhibition of his work, "Alaska, Lat. 60 degrees North", was held at Tokyo's Olympus Gallery and Asahi Shimbun Concourse, as well as other locations around Japan. He also began "Alaska-Story Like the Wind", a photographic essay run serially in Japan's Asahi Weekly. He was also the author of a work for children, "The Grizzly Bear Family Book", which was published by North-South in 1994. ~~His career continued with publication in numerous American and international magazines. On August 6th, 1996, at the age of 44, Michio was killed by a brown bear while photographing on the Kamchatka Penninsula in eastern Russia. He is survived by his wife Naoko, and his son Shoma.

Mike Parry

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Mike Parry is an Australian, born and raised in Papua New Guinea. He first discovered the captivating aura of apex marine predators whilst free diving alongside Orcas in the Bismarck Sea. The event sparked off a passion for the pursuit of, and further interaction with, large marine animals. When not travelling within Papua New Guinea, Mike spends his time following the seasonal migrations and concentrations of marine life around the world. ~~His primary objective is to observe and experience the behavioural characteristics of wild marine animals in their natural habitat in order to gain an insight into their personality and spirit. With a love for the open ocean and the ability to free dive one hundred feet, Mike has gained the necessary skills to make intimate approaches to within inches of his subjects in order to capture their character on film. ~~Amongst a portfolio of the many shark and whale specie, Mike has specialized in the Great White Shark and Saltwater Crocodile for their dominant primal presence. Other favourite subjects include the Southern Right Whale and Humpback Whale for their leviathan size and animated character. ~~Mike hopes through his photography other people may also gain a deepened appreciation for the magical beauty of these animals.

Mitsuaki Iwago

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Born in Tokyo in 1950, Mitsuaki Iwago has been involved with photography since he was a child. After graduating from college, he began to pursue a career in photography and he has gained the reputation of being among the world's foremost wildlife and nature photographers. In 1981, he received the Kimura Award, one of the most prestigious awards for photography in Japan for his work incorporated in "A Message from the Sea". ~~From the Galapagos Islands to the Serengeti Plain, he has taken award-winning images in more than seventy countries for the past twenty-five years. His work has appeared in numerous magazines, including National Geographic, Paris Match, and Life. ~~He is the author and photographer of several books, including the worldwide best-seller Serengeti: Natural Order on the African Plain, which is a collection of photographs made during his stay in Africa's Serengeti National Park with his family from 1982 to 1984. Shortly thereafter he published Mitsuaki Iwago's Kangaroos which is a product of his work in Australia from 1986 to 1988. More recently Chronicle Books has published his work in the spectacular Mitsuaki Iwago's Whales, In the Lion's Den, Snow Monkey, and Wildlife, a 603-page volume. Other titles he has published in Japan include Penguin's Land, Bossanova Dogs, Blue Cats, Nature Calls and Australia. ~~He has also been working in the realm of video to produce a program entitled Mitsuaki Iwago's Nature World, in partnership with NHK.

Mitsuhiko Imamori

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Insects have been a passion of photographer Mitsuhiko Imamori, one of Japan's most acclaimed nature photographers, since boyhood. This passion has led him and his camera to explore the natural areas near his home in Japan, as well as on extensive travels around the world. ~~He has photographed insects and other minute life forms in Africa, Australia, South America, Europe, South-east Asia, New Guinea, and many other remote places. Some of Imamori's subjects were the first of their species ever to be photographed. ~~Much of Imamori's work closer to home is focused on Satoyama, the traditional rice farming countryside near his rural studio and Lake Biwa, the largest lake in Japan. Imamori has published award winning books on Satoyama, among his over 20 published works, many of which have been translated into several languages. Imamori also worked as a scientific advisor and cinematographer to produce an international public television feature on Satoyama, which was narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

Murray Cooper

24 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Murray has been working at documenting the extraordinary diversity and beauty of the Tropical Andes since 1996, his specialty being bird and macro photography. He has compiled an in-depth collection of neotropical bird images, and focuses on getting those rare species which have never been professionally photographed.~His work has been published in various international publications. He recently had a feature on the Umbrellabird in BBC Wildlife magazine, plus a new species of hummingbird in Audubon magazine. ~~He has published over 10 photography books – the more notable being Birds of Colombia, Hummingbirds of Colombia and Aleteo - Birds of the Tropical Andes. Currently he is working on series of books on the Amazon region.~ ~Murray's principal mission with photography is to use his images locally to increase awareness for conservation, which he does through donating images to local foundations, massive outdoor exhibits, courses with local guides and presentations in local low-income schools, plus his books.~~South African born, he has made a home of Ecuador since 1991, where he spent the first 11 years working on the conservation of the Chocó Rainforest, co-founding a 21 000 acre reserve – living eight hours by mule, deep in the forest! Since 2002 he has been dedicated to photography full-time, and currently lives in the Tena region of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Norbert Wu

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Norbert Wu is an independent photographer and filmmaker focusing on underwater and wildlife subjects. He has covered the ocean realm from the surface to the deep sea, and from the tropics to the polar regions. His wildlife coverage includes deep-sea life, dolphins, jellyfish, sharks, whales, and animal behavior. ~~Wu's writing and photography have appeared in thousands of books, films, and magazines, including Audubon, Le Figaro, GEO, International Wildlife, National Geographic, Omni, Natural History, Time, and Terre Sauvage. He is the author and photographer of fifteen books on wildlife and photography and the originator and photographer for several children's book series on the oceans. ~~Exhibits of his work have been shown at the American Museum of Natural History, the California Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Museum of Wildlife Art. ~~His background includes degrees in electrical and mechanical engineering from Stanford University and doctoral studies at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. ~~He was awarded National Science Foundation Artists and Writers Grants to document wildlife and research in Antarctica in 1997, 1999, and 2000. In 2000, he was awarded the Antarctica Service Medal of the United States of America "for his contributions to exploration and science in the U.S. Antarctic Program." ~~His recent films include a high-definition television program on Antarctica's underwater world for Thirteen/WNET New York's Nature series that airs on PBS. ~~In 1999, he was awarded a Pew Marine Conservation Fellowship which he used to document, in stills and high-definition video, the world's most unique and threatened underwater habitats. From 2000 to 2003, Norbert Wu served as the primary cinematographer for many of the featured exhibits in the new Hall of Ocean Life at the American Museum of Natural History. He has just been named "Outstanding Photographer of the Year" by the North American Nature Photographers Association. When he is not traveling Wu makes his home in Pacific Grove, California near the biologically rich Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

Patricio Robles Gil

24 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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It is difficult to describe Patricio Robles Gil in a single word. Perhaps to say he is an artist would be the most apt. However, in all his undertakings-as painter, sculptor, photographer, editor, designer, naturalist, conservationist, and promoter-the leitmotif is always one and the same: passion. Patricio is, above all, passionate about life; about that sensation of freedom he feels when he ventures into the world of nature to take photographs. A tireless hunter of images, he is capable of climbing a steep mountain path for eight hours to photograph a bighorn sheep's silhouette in the light of dawn, and later feels compelled to relate this aesthetic and sensory experience to others. In photographing nature Patricio has discovered the perfect tool to communicate and move people. Camera in hand, he has traveled every continent in the planet in search of places, increasingly harder to find, where nature has not lost its original essence.~ ~ ~But it was many years ago, high up on the Serranías del Burro in Coahuila, that he heard the call of the natural world and decided to become a conservationist. The job of putting ideas into action led him to establish Agrupación Sierra Madre and Unidos para la Conservación, two organizations that work to guarantee the permanence of Mexico's biological wealth and promote a conservation culture among the population.~~Some of Patricio's ideas put into action amount to a new concept he himself has called "conservation marketing". They include more than twenty art books featuring international conservation strategies; a vast collection of photographs on nature around the world, especially in Mexico; exhibitions, presentations, and photographic contests; all kinds of propaganda like calendars, postcards, leaflets, children's books, posters, postage stamps, lithographs; articles in numerous publications at home and abroad; media campaigns and documentaries; alliances with different sectors of society that include government, conservationist organizations, scientific, educational and cultural institutions, indigenous groups and rural communities, and private enterprise; fundraising; projects for the conservation and recovery of biodiversity in Mexico, such as the reintroduction of the pronghorn antelope and bighorn sheep in Coahuila; a survey of the jaguar in the Mayan jungle; and the promotion of "El Carmen-Big Bend Conservation Corridor Initiative".~~In 2006, Patricio was honored with the prestigious ^Outstanding Nature Photographer of the Year^ Award by the North American Nature Photography Association, a title he shares with other outstanding photographers, like Robert Glen Ketchum, Art Wolfe, and Frans Lanting, but beyond his undisputed talents as one of the world's best nature photographers, is his willingness to step from behind the tripod to become one of Mexico's and the world's most influential conservation leaders.

Paul Bertner

10 Oct 2017 12:00 am

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"I found a word in Malay which seems to describe my ‘occupation’- Pengembara. A kind of traveler, adventurer, backpacker, vagabond- all the above.~~My background is in Cell biology and genetics. I thoroughly enjoy microbiology and the study of tropical diseases though having first traveled to the Peruvian Amazon in 2004, I was bitten by the bugs. And since I’ve been traveling off and on to whatever rainforests I can reach, the more pristine and untouched the better. Being surrounded by the natural biota has led to me to diversify my interests into zoology, rainforest ecology,and the interesting yet challenging disciplines of tropical systematics and taxonomy. Only recently have I gotten into macrophotography, but I find it immensely satisfying and hope to continue traveling and photographing for many years yet, since each new discovery fuels the existing passion." - Paul

Pete Oxford

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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From an early age Pete's father taught him both patience and the art of wildlife watching, important qualities in his chosen career as a wildlife photographer. Though times were hard early on, his perseverance has paid off. Pete and his wife Reneé Bish now travel widely, spending time photographing their subjects in some of the most remote regions of the globe. ~~Pete has traveled on all continents with over 50 safaris to the Okavango Delta, fifteen visits to Antarctica and extended periods in Madagascar, India, and Australia. Recently his travels have concentrated in South America, a continent he has called home for more than 29 years. He currently resides in Ecuador. ~~Pete is driven by passion and enthusiasm for the natural world. Work as a wildlife photographer means dirty, tough, long hours and sometimes dangerous situations, but it is always rewarding for Pete. His only conflict is that while he hopes his images help preserve animals and their environments by bringing them to public attention, too much attention can sometimes have a negative effect. ~~His training includes a degree in zoology and a lifetime of observing nature. He uses these skills to understand his subjects, to predict their behavior, and to make the least disturbing approach when photographing them. ~~His images have been published widely. Magazine credits include National Geographic, Smithsonian, International Wildlife, The Times, Nature, BBC Wildlife, Ranger Rick, Time, Terre Sauvage and Geo.

Peter Mather

20 Jul 2022 12:00 am

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Peter Mather is a professional photographer, writer, and teacher. Peter specializes in outdoor adventure, wildlife, and wilderness landscape photography. Introduced to wilderness travel and adventure at a young age, he took up photography in 1998, focusing on wilderness, wildlife conservation, and photojournalism. ~~Peter’s images have appeared in National Geographic, Canadian Geographic, The Smithsonian magazine and numerous other publications. His photo story on wolverines, won the 3rd place prize in World Press Photo competition, in the Nature Stories category.~~He is a Panasonic Lumix global ambassador and a fellow with the International League of Conservation Photographers.~~Between wilderness canoe trips, Peter lives in Whitehorse Yukon where he teaches, volunteers for wilderness conservation organizations and presents slideshows.

Piotr Naskrecki

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Since his earliest years Piotr Naskrecki has been fascinated by smaller and generally neglected organisms, such as insects, crustaceans, or millipedes. His professional background in zoology and entomology allows him to see his often nearly microscopic photographic subjects as complex, important members of every biological community. In his photography he tries to bring to light aspects of their behavior or appearance that often go unnoticed. Piotr obtained his doctorate at the University of Connecticut, where he studied katydid evolution, and the relationships between hummingbirds and tiny mites that live in flowers pollinated by these birds. Piotr's path to wildlife photography begun as an attempt to simply document his scientific findings, but has quickly turned into a major part of his life.~~Piotr has worked in remote places on six continents both as a biologist and a photographer, and many of his images show organisms never photographed before. He spends most of his time working on and photographing invertebrate animals in Central America, and West and southern Africa. He is deeply involved in efforts to protect invertebrates worldwide, and leads an invertebrate conservation program within a non-profit organization Conservation International. He currently lives in Massachusetts, and his scientific base is Harvard University.~~Piotr's images have been published in a number of magazines and books, both popular and scientific. His most recent book, "The Smaller Majority", highlights the beauty and behavioral uniqueness of small invertebrates and vertebrates that dominate the tropics, and discusses environmental and human threats to their survival.

Ralph Pace

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Ralph is a freelance underwater and environmental photographer living in Monterey, California. And, during the winter months, Ralph works on the Hawaiian island of Maui with Whale Trust to document humpback whales. Using his education in science, Ralph hopes to act as an interpreter to simplify scientific messages through imagery to tell science stories. Ralph's work has been published and used by many NGOs for educational, promotional, advocacy, identification and enforcement purposes.

Richard du Toit

24 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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"I grew up on a farm in South Africa, and as a young boy was fascinated with wildlife and birds. I found bird nests, read Gerald Durrell books, and dreamed of becoming a naturalist. Such was my enthusiasm that I ended up studying Zoology and Entomology at the University of Pietermaritzburg for 4 years!~~An interest in photography became a major hobby when I worked in the Kruger Park for several years. I started the hard way with Kodachrome 64 and manual focus lenses. In the 1995 BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition I won first place in the Mammal Behavior category with a photograph of two fighting leopards. In the years thereafter a love of nature and photography evolved into a professional career that has kept me happy and busy since 1995.~~I spend much of the year traveling to wild places in southern Africa, often on long roads trips. I love the Kalahari and Botswana and am a keen birder.~~My photographs have appeared in National Geographic, BBC Wildlife and Nature's Best magazines. In the 2007 Nature’s Best Photography competition I won the overall Grand Prize with my aerial image of Zebra in the Makgadikgadi. I have written and photographed 5 books on African wildlife and one book of aerial photographs - Bird’s Eye View. "

Richard Herrmann

13 Jul 2022 12:00 am

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Richard Herrmann is a professional marine life and nature photographer. His images have appeared in hundreds of publications including: National Geographic Magazine, Time, BBC Wildlife, Ranger Rick and Smithsonian. He has worked as a still and video shooter for major nature feature film companies including: the BBC, National Geographic, IMAX and Silverback Films. ~~He was the still photographer in 1990 for the Jacques Cousteau's Rediscovery of the World Philippines Expedition on Calypso and has won first prize in Wildlife Photographer of the Year and Nature's Best. He has also won a 2nd prize at the International POY (Pictures of the Year) awards. An accomplished presenter and speaker, Richard has given presentations to companies and organizations such as: Qualcomm, American Chemical Society, London Museum of Natural History and UCSD Television.~~Richard’s most recent projects include location management and “making of” footage for 2017 BBC Blue Planet 2, 2019 National Geographic’s Hostile Planet, 2019 Netflix Our Planet, 2021 Big Blue Films IMAX “Blue Whales” and 2022 “America the Beautiful” on Disney Plus.

Roland Seitre

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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As an intuitive reporter, Roland oriented his career to his passion for nature and animals towards documenting the environment. It was a choice of life as a vet and conservationist to do so. As a fellow zoologist of the Paris National History Museum, the freelancing enabled him to go to most places he dreamed of half of the year.His photos are published in international press, books and advertising since 1983. For over 35 years as a couple, and often with 3 kids, their journalistic texts are the results and testimonies of their trips around the planet, looking for wildlife, mainly mammals and birds, but also the people that work with, exploit, protect, study or destroy animals and the planet. His collection has more than 1,000 species of mammals and close to 6,000 of birds in addition to images of reptiles amphibians fish, insects plants.…They do not plan to retire from their passion.

Scott Leslie

22 Jul 2022 12:00 am

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"My interest in nature started early, exploring the woods and shorelines as a child on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. It wasn't until later, after I'd discovered a love for birds, that I began growing as a naturalist and developing as a photographer. Throughout my career, observing, photographing and writing about nature have always been my main passions.~~I'm the author and photographer of seven books, including Bay of Fundy: A Natural Portrait; a complete four volume set on the birds of North America, and my two most recent books 100 Under 100: The Race to Save the World's Rarest Living Things with a foreword by American conservation biologist Dr. Stuart Pimm; and Untamed Atlantic Canada: Exploring the Region's Biodiversity Havens. My work has also been published in scores of publications throughout the world. ~~~Although I'm now exclusively a terrestrial photographer, I also have over 3000 dives as a photographer, a diving instructor, and a commercial sea urchin diver in Canada's Bay of Fundy. I've also been an avid motorcyclist for over 50 years and explore Canada's eastern boreal wilderness on two wheels.~~Primarily concentrating on landscape photography and writing about nature, nowadays I live on the edge of the French River Wilderness of northern Cape Breton Island with my wife and best friend Paula and our dog Pippin."

Sean Crane

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Sean's day job is as a creative director for New York's largest advertising agency, but when he's not convincing the world to buy things that they may or may not need, he's out photographing wildlife. His travels have taken him to all seven continents where he has documented everything from the smallest of invertebrates to the largest of mammals. His photos have been published in many magazines, and have been awarded by the BBC, the Smithsonian and National Geographic.~~Back in 2002, Sean took a break from advertising and moved into his Subaru Outback. He traveled to all 50 states, compiling images for his first book, American Hydrant. Sean also runs a popular Photo of the Day blog where he delights his thousands of subscribers with a new wildlife image every day of the work week. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife Karen.

Sebastian Kennerknecht

15 Jul 2022 12:00 am

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Sebastian Kennerknecht is a wildlife and conservation photographer focused on telling stories on wild cats and their threats. He has produced high quality editorial photographs, time-lapses, videos, and web content featured in and by the New York Times, Washington Post, BBC Wildlife, Smithsonian, The Economist, Science, and Conservation International, among others. Using highly customized SLR camera traps, along with conventional photographic techniques, he works closely with field biologists to both effectively and ethically capture photographs of some of the rarest cats on the planet while also highlighting the threats they face. Working for conservation organizations and on magazine assignments, Sebastian has photographed twenty-three of the forty species of wild felids, in twenty-nine different countries.~~Sebastian graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Ecology and Evolution from the University of California – Santa Cruz, won NANPA’s emerging photographer award, and is an associate fellow with the International League of Conservation Photographers.

Sergey Gorshkov

23 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Sergey Gorshkov is a naturalist photographer by vocation. He chooses his subjects himself, preferring to photograph only the things that deeply attract him. Nature has always been Sergey's passion and he especially likes to work in Kamchatka, particularly with the local wild Brown Bear population.~~He describes his introduction to photography , "I have been shooting wildlife for a long time without any special education. I am self-taught, moving forward by trial and error. No one can learn to shoot wildlife by working in a studio. Nature is my main teacher and I'm still taking lessons.~~After extensive world travels Sergey realized that Russia boasts many beautiful locales, and one of them, the wilderness of Kamchatka captured his heart forever. "Kamchatka has its own special magic force. When I came to it's mountains the first time, I felt like I was reveling in its freedom. This land has a special influence upon a man and it is the only place where you can feel yourself as a part of the wilderness. I am always eager to return so I can experience this feeling of freedom. Kamchatka hypnotizes you and almost forces you to come back to the primitive life of humankind".~~The bears of Kamchatka are the favorite characters of Sergey's photos though his first encounter with this dangerous predator had nothing in common with photography. "It appeared that first I saw a bear during hunting, through the crosshairs of my scope sight. Now I know that to notice and shoot the unusual behavior of a bear, to slink by the furious she-bear and her cubs, to shoot coupling of salmon hunting bears is an inexpressibly more beautiful and difficult task than to kill an animal. As my experience proves, the best thing about hunting with a camera is that you can satisfy your hunting instinct without the need of killing."~~"The lens of my camera is a connecting link between the wild world and me. It helps me to see things, to make photos and to reproduce the beauty of wild natures. All those scenes that I have seen while living close to the bears in their vanishing world that is disappearing little by little from the face of the earth."

Shane P. White

27 Jul 2022 12:00 am

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Shane P. White was born in the 1960’s in a small town in rural Australia, leaving home shortly after turning 16. He has been wandering the globe for nearly thirty years, most of his adult life. Since 2001 he has been travelling continuously, across and in between every continent with no home anywhere. Experiencing first-hand, taking the time to engage and visually recording our environments,slowly and thoughtfully, he seeks to understand and capture the complexity of the world around us as it grows smaller, less diverse and threatened. Trying to seek out remote places that are little known to most of us. An ‘accidental conservationist’, he chose to go professional in order to share with others the vastness and wonder of our delicate ‘blue ball’ and try in some small but significant way to express how important it is to protect and preserve.~~Gregarious in nature when faced by humanity, he is far more at home being a recluse as a solo travelling photographer. In the quiet and beauty of first light as the sun sweeps away the dark of night to expose a unique and spectacular vista, to the intimacy of understanding the diverse characters of animals far better than his own.Every day holds the promise of something special from the tiniest of wildflowers holding an even tinier praying mantis to the grand landscapes and distant horizons.~He has spent seven full Winter seasons in the Arctic, seven years criss-crossing the continent of Asia including a year-long overland Silk Road journey commencing on the coast of China and ending in Europe. Well over a hundred Islands scattered across the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Several years covering nearly every Caribbean Island and every country in Central and South America. ~~He is currently banned from entering the United States due to his time with the Kurds in Iran as they armed to fight IS in nearby Iraq at the beginning of the crisis.~~Since 2019, he has been working throughout Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), Lesotho). He spent his 11 month lockdown at a closed game park in Zimbabwe containing 86 Lions and capturing a further 1,100 species of flora and fauna inside the gates, a very busy time.

Shin Yoshino

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Shin Yoshino was born in Japan in 1943 and graduated from Kuwasawa Design Institute. In 1972 he began his career as a freelance wildlife photographer and has since photographed wildlife and landscapes around the world. His true love remains the great spaces of the Rocky Mountain and Alaskan landscapes.

Stephen Belcher

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Born in Christchurch, New Zealand, Stephen's interest in animals led him to study at Massey University, where he graduated as a veterinarian. He then went on to practice in both New Zealand and Singapore. It was during his 5 years in Singapore that his passion for photography grew. From this point onwards he has never looked back, and has over the past 15 years developed an international reputation as a wildlife photographer.~~Recently his photography has centred upon undertaking more extreme expeditions to some of the most remote locations in the world in order to photograph the widest possible variety of endangered species. These projects have taken him to every continent on the planet, and to experience every type of climate and terrain.

Stephen Dalton

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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British photographer Stephen Dalton is world recognized for his spectacular stop-action photography accomplished with his custom photo equipment. He catches grasshoppers in mid-hop, lizards walking on water and insects in all their glory.

Steve Gettle

15 Jul 2022 12:00 am

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For nearly four decades, Steve Gettle has dedicated himself to creating images showcasing the natural beauty of our planet. In fact, as a full-time nature photographer, he has built his life around photography and his love of the wildlife and wild places of our world. This passion has inspired and allowed him the privilege to be able to travel around the world in search of unique imagery. ~~Steve especially enjoys sharing his knowledge through both private and group location-based experiences focused on individual nature photography development in once-in-a-lifetime locations.~~In addition to his own photo tours and workshops, Steve has given presentations and led workshops for organizations around the country including North American Nature Photographers Association, Rocky Mountain School of Photography, The Adirondack Photography Institute, The Photographic Society of America~~While he travels as much as two thirds of the year, he finds much of his inspiration near the home he and his partner and fellow nature photographer Nicole Sudduth have built together adjoining a 6,000-acre State Park in Michigan. ~~Steve’s images have been exhibited in galleries and museums all over the world, including:~Museum of Natural History London~The American Museum of Natural History in New York as well as two solo shows at The National Center for Nature Photography.~~Steve’s work has been featured in many books, magazines, calendars, and other publications including: The National Geographic Society, Canadian Geographic, Audubon, Sierra Club, The BBC, The World Wildlife Fund, The National Wildlife Federation, The Nature Conservancy, Birder’s World, Nature’s Best, and Natural History.~~Steve has been honored to receive many awards for his photography. Some of the highlights include being chosen as Great Lakes Wildlife Photographer of the Year, a multiple award winner honored in the BBC’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest, as well as often recognized in the prestigious Nature’s Best photography contest.

Sumio Harada

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Sumio was born in Japan. He studied biology at the Tokyo University of Agriculture. His research on the behavior of the Japanese serow, a close relative of the mountain goat, led to his wildlife photography career. Sumio started to take mountain goat photographs in the Canadian Rockies in 1987. ~~In 1994, he moved to West Glacier, Montana concentrating his work in the Rocky Mountains, especially Glacier National Park where Sumio photographs nature and wildlife as "his lifestyle". Since then he has self published WILD HARMONY OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. Published in [MOUNTAIN GOATS OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK] [The Breaths of Glacier] NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, NATIONAL WILDLIFE, Ranger Rick, MONTANA MAGAZINE, MONTANA OUTDOORS and in many Japanese Magazines and books.~~He continues to capture images of wildlife and has expanded his art into videos to document the entire life cycle of mountain goats. He lives near Glacier National Park with his wife Kumi.

Suzi Eszterhas

15 Jul 2022 12:00 am

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Suzi Eszterhas is an award-winning wildlife photographer best known for her work documenting newborn animals and family life in the wild. She has photographed over 100 cover and feature stories for publications such as TIME, Smithsonian, BBC Wildlife, The New York Times, Ranger Rick, and National Geographic Kids. As an author, Suzi has 23books in print with another fourin progress. She was recently named as the Outstanding Nature Photographer of the Year by the North American Nature Photography Association. ~~Suzi is a dedicated conservationist and helps raise funds and awareness for environmental organizations around the globe. She also recently founded Girls Who Click, a non-profit dedicated to encouraging young women to enter this male-dominated profession.

Theo Allofs

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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In the Photographer's own words...~~I was born and raised in the small town of Walbeck in the lower Rhine valley in Germany near the Dutch border. The love for nature and traveling has been in my blood for as long as I can remember. As a teenager I made my first big trip to Northern Africa together with two school friends. ~~After finishing high school my fever to explore distant lands became unbearable and I started wandering around the globe wondering what to do with my future. First I worked as a sailor on several German merchant marine ships for 2 years to satisfy my appetite for seasickness, big ships, short stay-overs in harbor towns and views of endless bodies of water for weeks and months on end. ~~Life improved much when I decided to become captain of my own boat. I packed my camping gear and headed for the remote and wild Yukon in Northern Canada, purchased a canoe and spent the whole summer of 1978 paddling down the entire length of the Yukon River to the Bering Sea. This trip and many other canoe adventures that followed over the next decade took me all over the arctic realm of North America across some of the remotest, untouched wildernesses on earth. ~~At the end of 1978 I began studying geology at the University of Cologne. Five years later when working on my thesis in the Iberian Mountains in Spain I suddenly discovered my love for photography. After completing university I further developed my photography skills during a one-year trip in northern Canada across one of the remotest regions on earth. In 1990 a longstanding dream came true: the emigration to Canada's Yukon Territory.~~It took another 6 years until I made the best decision of my life and began a career as a full time nature photographer, a move I have never regretted.

Thomas Mangelsen

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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As one of the nation's premier nature photographers, Thomas Mangelsen has spent the past 20 years capturing stunning images of wild animals in their natural habitat. Mangelsen's distinctive images are a blend of experience, artistry and patience. ~~In 1969 Mangelsen earned an undergraduate degree in biology at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska. After graduating and without any formal photographic training, he began taking his first photographs of the subjects he knew best- waterfowl along the Platte. ~~A few years later, his life took and unexpected turn while attending graduate school at Colorado State University where he met a filmmaker who enticed him into trying his hand at wildlife cinematography. These efforts later resulted in the Emmy-nominated National Geographic television special "Flight of the Whooping Crane" and the PBS Nature and BBC Natural World film "Cranes of the Grey Wind." ~~Mangelsen now travels seven months a year to locations around the world, following the migrations and seasonal concentrations of wildlife. ~~Mangelsen keeps in contact with a number of wildlife research projects and works jointly with biologists to promote studies of rare or endangered species. " I feel the real purpose of my work is to convince people to save what natural beauty and wildlife we still have," says Mangelsen. ~~Images of Nature galleries, featuring the work of Tom Mangelsen, are located in LaJolla, Los Gatos, Pal Alto, and Palm Desert California; Park City and Deer Valley, Utah; Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Denver International Airport, and Vail, Colorado; the Old Market area of Omaha, Nebraska; and Galena, Illinois. ~~A large format book "Images of Nature-The Photographs of Thomas D. Mangelsen, " with text by Charles Craighead, depicts Mangelsen's most memorable photographs. His newest book, "Polar Dance-Born of the North Wind" is a photographic adventure into the world of polar bears and life in the far north, with text by Fred Bruemmer.

Thomas Marent

13 Jul 2022 12:00 am

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Thomas Marent was born in 1966 in Baden, Switzerland. During his childhood he developed a strong fascination for nature and wildlife. While exploring nature around his home he was watching the birds and observing frogs, insects and flowers. A lifelong passion arised and at the age of 16 he bought his first camera. And from that moment on he became as passionate about photography as about nature. ~~Marent first set foot in a rainforest in 1990, in Australia, at the age of 23. ~~"It was the rainy season and the forest was bursting with life. It was hot, humid, noisy and completely exhilarating, but most exciting of all was the wildlife. I was immediately hooked. There and then, I made up my mind to explore rainforests throughout the world". And so he did. Since that first expedition to Australia he explored rainforests all over the world as in New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Madagascar, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and French Guyana. ~~For many years it remained a hobby that he practiced intensively while working on a temporary base as a draftsman and in various other jobs in Switzerland to fund his expeditions. Sometimes he dreamed of publishing his work in a book, but in truth he had no business plan or strategy. It was a passionate interest in nature that kept Marent going. And besides his specialisation in rainforests he also photographs wildlife in every other kind of natural environment. ~~Around 1996 Marent started to publish his photographs in numerous magazines, books and calendars. His intensive hobby gradually developed into a thriving career as a wildlife photographer. Besides his work as a photographer he is also occupied as a biologist in Switzerland during the summers; monitoring butterflies, grasshoppers, dragonflies, amphibians and birds. His first book "Rainforest" was published in September 2006. "Rainforest" soon became a success and by now it already has been translated in 13 languages and published in 25 countries. ~~"Rainforest" made Marents dream about a book come true. But a very important wish of him is a future for his beloved subject. "To me, rainforests are the greatest treasures on earth, and I think it is tragic that we are losing them just as we are beginning to appreciate their true value. We not only have the power to destroy these beautiful and important habitats, we also have the power and the responsibility to protect and preserve them".~~His most recent published books include Butterflies (2015), Weird Butterflies (2016) Rainforest: Dispatches for Earth's Most Vital Frontlines (2018) and Die Schonsten Insekten der Schweiz (2020)

Tim Fitzharris

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Tim Fitzharris began his career in photography in 1971 photographing nesting great blue herons from a camouflaged treetop blind 70 ft. above the ground. For the ensuing 8 years he photographed nature part-time while teaching high school and elementary school. By 1979 he was working full time at photography, shooting in the field and teaching workshops in a variety of venues, including the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology. ~~In 1983 his first book, The Adventure of Nature Photography was published. At about the same time, his photos were featured on the cover of Audubon magazine 4 times in one year. Since then he has traveled to many of the earth's wild places in search of unique images and his photographs appear regularly in periodicals world-wide. ~~Since 2000 Tim has been the monthly nature photography columnist for Popular Photography & Imaging magazine, the world's largest circulating photo periodical (500,000). He has published numerous Sierra Club art cards including six boxed sets. He is the author and photographer of 28 additional picture books on wilderness and wildlife including Big Sky, Rocky Mountains: Wilderness Reflections, Canada: A Natural History and the award-winning Sierra Club Guide to 35 mm Landscape Photography. He has published more than 100 one-man calendars and engagement diaries and captured several prizes in the prestigious BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest including two first prizes (2001 & 2002) in bird behavior and mammal behavior(see photo). His stock photographs are published world wide and have appeared on the front covers of Life, Audubon, Nature's Best Photography Magazine, Terre Sauvage, Popular Photography, Outdoor Photographer, and many others.~~His latest pictorial book, Wild California, was published by Firefly books in 2012.

Tim Laman/NPL

15 Nov 2021 12:00 am

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Brought to us through our associates at Nature Picture Library, Tim Laman is a PhD rainforest biologist with a thirst for exploration. He has turned his camera into a tool for communicating the stories of earth's little-known and endangered species in the wild, always with a strong conservation message. He works closely with National Geographic Society and Cornell Lab of Ornithology and is a fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers. He has provided photos for 21 articles in National Geographic magazine, several of which he has authored himself; subjects covered include Orangutans, Hornbills, Proboscis monkeys, gliding animals of Borneo, Mangroves and Birds of Paradise - many of which have never been photographed before.~~In this gallery we share some of his Indonesia rainforest images.

Tom Vezo

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Tom Vezo was an award-winning, professional wildlife photographer who traveled the world capturing images of the natural environment. Best known as one of the top bird photographers in the United States, he also photographed landscapes, mammals, and other natural subjects. ~~His work is widely published in the United States and Europe in many books, calendars, magazines and advertisements. Credits include; Audubon, Birder's World, Bird Watcher's Digest, Discovery, Ducks Unlimited, National Geographic, National Wildlife Federation, Nature Conservancy, Natural History, Outdoor Photographer, Sierra Club, Travel and Leisure, Wildbird, Wildlife Conservation and many more. ~~He published two books, Wings in the Wild written by Paul Kerlinger, former director of the Cape May Bird Observatory, and Birds of Prey in the American West written by raptor expert Rich Glinski. His most recent book, Wings of Spring - Courtship, Nesting and Fledging was released in February of 2006 and won the National Outdoor Book Award for 2006 in the category of Design and Artistic Merit.~~His was the winner of the 1998 and 1999 Nature's Best Magazine photo contest for "Wildlife" in the professional category, and in 1997 he received honorable mention in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest. ~~He lead many photography tours throughout the United States and Canada teaching techniques of nature photography in the field. Tom passed away on July 18th of 2008 while hiking in the Rincon Mountains outside of Tucson, Arizona.

Tui De Roy

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Tui De Roy is an award-winning wildlife photographer, naturalist, and author of many books on wildlife themes around the world. She is also an ardent conservationist who has combined her life's three passions, Wildness, Photography and Conservation, into a successful career as a world communicator striving to sensitise her audiences to take better care of our natural planet. ~~Tui is Belgian by birth, but grew up in the Galapagos Islands, where her parents took her to lead a pioneering lifestyle when she was two years old. She never attended school, being home taught, and is fluent in four languages: English, French, Spanish and German. After more than 35 years in the Galapagos Islands, Tui relocated to the South Island of New Zealand 20 years ago. She runs The Roving Tortoise Nature Photography together with business partners Mark Jones and Julie Cornthwaite, working freelance under the logo "Images of Wildlife and Wilderness from Our Planet's Most Pristine, Uninhabited Regions".~~Published in more than 40 countries, Tui's first articles appeared in major U.S. nature magazines when she was 19, followed a few years later by her first book, GALAPAGOS: ISLANDS LOST IN TIME (Viking 1980). Many subsequent volumes cover not only the Galapagos Islands, but other natural wonders of the world, notably Antarctica, the Andes Mountains, and New Zealand. Her most recent books include ALBATROSS: THEIR WORLD, THEIR WAYS, an in-depth celebration of the world's most endangered multi-species bird family, and GALAPAGOS: PRESERVING DARWIN'S LEGACY, which represents a compilation of 50 years of science and conservation work since these islands were declared Ecuador's first national park. This latter effort won Tui an "Honorary Park Warden" medal from the Galapagos National Park when it decided to publish a Spanish translation of the book for free public distribution and awareness raising as closure to its 2009 half-century anniversary events.~~Besides publishing credits (see list with CV), Tui has also lectured extensively in North America, including at the Smithsonian Institution, American Museum of Natural History, New England Aquarium, California Academy of Sciences, etc, and in Europe (Germany, France, Belgium, Finland, UK).~~Her latest books include PENGUINS: THEIR WORLD, THEIR WAYS, sister volume to ALBATROSS: THEIR WORLD, THEIR WAYS, whose purpose is to draw attention to the increasingly beleaguered status of both groups of endangered, charismatic marine birds.

Vincent Grafhorst

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Wildly passionate about the beauty of the wild arid southern African landscapes and its animals, Vincent has an inherent drive to create inspirational works of art that evoke emotions and command respect for nature. Perhaps in the belief that sharing the unparalleled beauty of the wild through his photographs will help create the awareness and appreciation of our fragile natural world and its last wild places, that is so desperately needed to help conserve it.~~Vincent Grafhorst was born in the Netherlands, but after his studies (Civil Engineering and Construction Management) in the Netherlands and the UK he moved to South Africa in 1998 in search of some adventure. By chance he ended up in Botswana and still lives there today.~~Only in 2005, however, he became more serious about his photography and realized that southern Africa with its abundant wildlife and breath-taking scenery is a heaven for nature photographers. His early inspiration came from Frans Lanting, Nigel Dennis, Richard du Toit and, most of all, from nature itself. Vincent is now an award-winning and published nature photographer himself.

Winfried Wisniewski

25 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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Winfried Wisniewski was born in 1948 in Castrop Rauxel. Even as a child he was interested in the nature. As a young man he traveled to the south of France, Austria and Scandinavia to watch animals. At the age of 20, he began his quest to find plants, animals and landscapes to photograph.~~The documentation was first about behaviors of the animals, or eco-logical relationships in the foreground of its photographic work so creative photography has been a large part of his process. Currently he is working with the photographic representation of movements and moods in nature and leaves to find new modes of expression.~~Wisniewski has travelled as a photographer large parts of the world and, in particular, in Scandinavia, Alaska, Iceland, Australia, Namibia, Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, Kamchatka, Siberia, India, Florida, in the west of the USA, on the Galapagos Islands, South Africa, Patagonia and the Antarctic. His photos have been awarded several times.

Zhinong Xi

22 Oct 2015 12:00 am

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When Xi Zhinong was 19 years old, a Chinese film crew shooting in his native Yunnan province hired him as an assistant. Their subject was the region's rich bird life. An avid observer of wild animals, Xi had a special fondness for birds -- one not shared by the crew's cinematographer. 'The cameraman didn't like birds at all,' Xi remembers. "In order to film some newly hatched chicks, he tied their legs to the nest. But after he finished filming he didn't bother to untie them". The next day Xi found the chicks dead in their nest. "I was really furious,"he says. "That day I decided to become a cameraman myself, so I could film free-flying birds in Yunnan."~~Xi went on to create China's first and only wildlife film and photography agency, Wild China Film, with his journalist wife Shi Lihong. Xi specializes in the wildlife of Western China, especially endangered species such as the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey, the world's highest-altitude primate. He was the first photographer ever to capture this rare creature in the wild, garnering national media attention. "We knew the monkeys were being poached," says Xi. "Then I discovered a scheme by the local government to do logging in the monkey's habitat." Xi petitioned higher authorities to intervene. His letter and photograph of a snub-nosed monkey madonna and child made their way to national newspapers, and the story ended up on China's all-powerful CCTV television network. "Almost immediately the central government ordered the local government to stop the logging," says Xi. "And two years later, China issued a logging ban on all old-growth forest." Since then, Yunnan's snub-nosed monkey population has surged.

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