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Patrice Aguilar is a professional nature photographer who lives in Marseille, France. As a life-long Provençal, Patrice knows the Provence and Camargue regions intimately. His images are regularly published in a variety of French periodicals including Terre de Provence and Pays de Provence, as well as a number of brochures, posters, calendars and postcards. In addition to his photography, Patrice is also a proficient birder and has worked as an ornithologist in the Parc Régional de Camargue. He has presented his delightful images at numerous photographic exhibitions throughout France including the International Nature and Wildlife Photo Festival of Montier en Der.
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Paul Bannick, an award-winning wildlife photographer who worked successfully in the computer software industry before concentrating on his passion for wilderness conservation, is currently the Director of Development for Conservation Northwest, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting wild areas from the Pacific Coast to the Canadian Rockies. His first book, The Owl and the Woodpecker, was published in 2008. In 2011, Paul took first place among professionals in Birds and Their Habitat category in Audubon’s prestigious annual photography contest. His images can be found in numerous bird guides and have been featured in Audubon, Sunset, Birds and Blooms and Pacific Northwest, among others. Paul lives in Seattle.
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Paulo Boute is one of the pioneering birders and ornithologists in Brazil. Paulo has over 20 years of experience guiding birders and photographers throughout Brazil and abroad, but his first love is the wildlife-rich Pantanal—an area he knows intimately. Paulo has led private wildlife expeditions for such legendary birders as Roger Tory Peterson and Robert Ridgely. He also shares his knowledge and wry sense of humor with Brazilians on his weekly radio program concerning birdwatching and environmental education. Paulo lives in Cuiabá, Brazil—gateway to the Pantanal.
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Perry Conway is a veteran leader of photographic workshops and tours. His photographs have appeared in a variety of publications, including National Wildlife, Audubon, National Geographic, Outdoor Photographer, Newsweek and Sierra Club calendars. Perry has photographed and edited multimedia educational programs including Rainforest Wildlife and Conservation, Prairie Dog Ecosystems, Learning to Live with Wildlife, Colorado's Endangered Species and Colorado's Watchable Wildlife. Perry was the grand prize winner in National Wildlife’s photo contest and took first place in the National Educational Film Festival for his multimedia show, "Eagles on the Wind." With a background in both teaching and biology, he is well suited to interpret natural history as well as to help others capture these events with their cameras. Perry lives in Boulder, Colorado.
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María Cecilia Costa is a professional photographer and birder from Argentina. Cecilia grew up in Buenos Aires where she received a BA in education, as well as a degree in natural sciences and professional photography. She is a licensed trekking guide, certified first responder and co-founder of the El Chalten Birdwatchers Club. As an enthusiastic member of Aves Argentinas, Cecilia has traveled all over Argentina and to other destinations. She has published several guides to the flora and fauna of Patagonia. Since 1998, Cecilia has made her home in El Chalten—located at the foot of Mt. Fitzroy—and leads trekking, birding and photography tours all over southern Patagonia and throughout Latin America.
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Greg Downing has traveled the world teaching photographers of all skill levels and hosting photography workshops and seminars. His publishing credits include books, advertising campaigns and editorial publications such as Birding, Outdoor Photographer, Birder's World, National Geographic and many others. Especially passionate about birds, prints of his images can be seen in several Wildbird Centers on the east coast, as well as in private art exhibits. In 2003 Greg founded the photography website www.naturescapes.net for which he is publisher, president and sole owner. Greg lives and works in Parkton, Maryland.
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Chris Edwards spent three summers and two winters stationed in Stonington and Alexander Islands in Antarctica in the early 1970s. As a geologist for the British Antarctic Survey, he regularly traveled hundreds of miles by dogsled, camping for six months at a time away from base, to conduct his field research. His doctoral studies based on this research resulted in a Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of Birmingham. This experience and his knowledge of the geology, botany, wildlife and exploration history of Antarctica, the Arctic, and the British Isles make him a sought-after lecturer, field guide and expedition leader. Chris lives in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
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Julie Eggers, a professional photographer and a native of Seattle, has been pursuing her love of nature and landscape photography since 1992. Since leaving her job in investment banking in 1999, she has been a full-time nature and landscape photographer. Julie has been published in many nature and landscape calendars, including Inner Reflections, Audubon, Teldon, Avalanche, as well as several Reiman Publications. She has also been a tour leader for the past 10 years. Julie and husband, Terry, also conduct many speaking engagements and seminars together. Julie is represented by three stock agencies, including Corbis.
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Terry Eggers has over 20 years of experience as a professional outdoor nature and stock photographer. His work has appeared worldwide in numerous publications, including Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy, Inner Reflections, Audubon and Reiman Publications. His images are represented by four stock agencies including Corbis International and Panoramic Images. For the past 13 years, Terry has been leading tours and teaching photography throughout North America and Europe. Terry and his wife, Julie, also conduct speaking engagements and seminars to share their vision and knowledge of digital photography. He lives in Seattle.
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Jeff Foott is a California native who studied biology at San Jose State University. Following school he worked as a researcher at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories where he studied sea otters and published several scientific papers. Jeff has also worked as a park ranger in Yosemite National Park, a professional climbing guide and on the ski patrol at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Around 1970 his interests in photographing and filming nature and wildlife led to a new career direction. Since then he has filmed for Nova, National Geographic, BBC and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. His still images have appeared in hundreds of magazines including Audubon, National Geographic, National Wildlife and International Wildlife as well as numerous books, calendars, posters and note cards. Jeff spends summers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and winters in Moab, Utah.
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Darrell Gulin is an accomplished photographer as well as a highly in-demand speaker, teacher, 2005 NANPA president, and photo tour leader. For nearly two decades he has been creating and marketing images and has spent the past 18 years as a full-time nature photographer. His work has been published in numerous nature and wildlife magazines including Outdoor Photographer, Outdoor & Nature, Newsweek, National Geographic, Audubon, Wilderness, National Wildlife, Birder’s World, Sunset, Nature Conservancy and Popular Photography, as well as in major nature calendars. Darrell is a veteran photo tour leader and he has both taught and been a featured speaker at photography seminars and workshops worldwide. He is one of Canon’s elite Explorers of Light, which includes the top 60 photographers in North America. Darrell lives in Seattle, Washington—his lifelong hometown.
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Aubrey Lang has worn many different hats in the past fourteen years of her freelance work. She has written for several magazines, has four books to her credit, and has co-authored four nature documentary scripts for television. She is well traveled and has acted in many capacities on 30 expedition cruises — several to Antarctica. Between these jobs she operates the Lang and Lynch stock photography business and works as a team with her husband, Wayne Lynch, in the field on wilderness photography assignments.
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Darran Leal began his career as a professional photographer in 1980. Since that time he’s been engaged in numerous photo assignments for private companies and governmental agencies. In addition to producing photos for his six books, and for dozens of magazine, calendars and postcards, his work has been commissioned by Qantas Airlines, SeaWorld and Kodak. Darran has led over 500 tours, workshops and other educational photo events in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. He lives on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia.
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Wayne Lynch is a former emergency physician who has worked for more than 30 years as a full-time science writer and photographer. He is the author of award-winning books and television documentaries, a popular guest lecturer, and Canada’s best known and most widely published professional wildlife photographer. His photo credits include hundreds of magazine covers and tens of thousands of images published in over two dozen countries. Wayne is a veteran tour leader, having led over 150 trips worldwide. He lives in Calgary, Alberta.
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James Martin a former guide in the North Cascades and Canadian Rockies, is a writer and photographer based in Seattle. In addition to creating a series of award-winning science books for children, Jim wrote the first comprehensive study of chameleons in 1992, Chameleons: Masters of Disguise with Art Wolfe. His most recent books are Digital Photography Outdoors, North Cascades Crest and Extreme Alpinism with Mark Twight. Planet Ice, a survey of ice around the world, is scheduled for release in the fall of 2009. His images have been published in Smithsonian, Sports Illustrated, Climbing, Outside, Outdoor Photographer and a host of other periodicals. Jim is currently the Executive Director of Art Wolfe, Inc.
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Joe & Mary Ann McDonald are accomplished naturalists, professional wildlife photographers and writers. Joe has written how-to books on wildlife photography, digital photography and Photoshop. Mary Ann has written more than 29 children's books on natural history topics and she is a two-time winner of categories in the BBC Photographer of the Year award and Nature's Best annual competition. Together they have led numerous tours to the Falkland Islands and are very familiar with the islands' best spots for photography and wildlife viewing. For years Joe and Mary Ann have led tours and taught photography workshops to people of all skills.
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Mehmet Özbalci is an exceptional English-speaking guide thoroughly versed in Turkish history and culture. He is a wonderful travel companion, knowledgeable in the needs of getting photographers to the right place and best times to create iconic images of Turkey and its people. An excellent photographer himself, his charming, funny and personable demeanor make it very easy for you to meet and photograph the local people and visit "behind the scenes" locations throughout your tour. Mehmet lives in Istanbul with his wife and son. Mehmet lives in Istanbul.
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Todd Pierce is a professional photographer specializing in landscape, aerial and architectural imagery. His photographs have been chosen for numerous regional and national publications, advertisements, high-end marketing campaigns and editorial pieces. His thoughtful approach and personal vision have generated recent commissions to produce private art collections, custom fine art photo books, and have taken him to Austria, Italy, Norway, Costa Rica, Bahamas and the Turks & Caicos Islands. Todd is a three-time recipient of the Mountain States Printing & Imaging Association Best of Category Award for his Colorado calendar series. He has over 10 years experience leading photo workshops in Colorado, and began his teaching and photography career under the wings of John Shaw, Galen Rowell and Art Wolfe. Along with managing his online stock photo site and working on his new book project, Colorado Light, Todd enjoys an active lifestyle in his home town of Vail.
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Alejandro Ronchetti is one of Argentina’s most renowned wildlife photographers. His images have been published in numerous books, magazines, corporate publications and educational materials in several Latin American countries. Alejandro is also an enthusiastic interpretive naturalist with almost 25 years of experience leading groups of photographers and birders throughout Argentina and South America. He is the author of several conservation projects that have created numerous protected habitats in his country. His special conservation interests include tropical wetlands and Patagonia. Alejandro has also worked for the Argentine Tourism Board assisting local communities and government agencies in their development of ecotourism and sustainable tourism.
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Len Rue, Jr. is a nationally known photographer whose work has been featured in hundreds of publications worldwide. He has traveled extensively throughout North America and internationally, using his intimate knowledge of nature to create his distinctive style of wildlife stock imagery. Len’s photo work has appeared on dozens of magazine covers and in numerous catalogs, brochures, advertising and educational materials. In addition, he is the business manager of Len Rue Enterprises, which specializes in photographic products for wildlife and nature photographers. Len lives in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains where he lectures and teaches photography at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania.
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John Shaw has been hailed by American Photographer as "one of the best nature photographers around" and we agree! John's beautiful images are regularly published in a variety of magazines including Audubon and National Wildlife as well as being used in advertising, books and calendars. He is the author of six books on nature photography techniques, and four eBooks about Photoshop. His latest paper book, The Nature Photography Field Guide, may just be the best photo equipment investment you will ever make for under 25 dollars. John is a great teacher both in workshops and in the field. He makes his home in McMinnville, Oregon.
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Anna Sutcliffe is a wildlife ecologist with a deep commitment to developing environmental awareness through education and interpretation. With a degree in geography and ecology from Reading University, she has participated in research projects in the UK, Canary Islands and Russia and has extensively studied a variety of seabirds. For more than a decade, Anna has been a naturalist and/or expedition leader on expedition cruises to Antarctica, South Georgia, the Falkland Islands, the Arctic, Norway, the Seychelles and coastal Britain and Scotland. She has particularly strong knowledge of the ecology, birds and sea mammals of Antarctica. She lives with her husband Steve in West Wales, UK.
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Steve Turner's upbringing in the wildlands of East Africa fostered an intense interest in, and extensive knowledge of, the natural history and tribal communities within these rich environments. His passion for culture, wildlife and nature has taken him throughout the African continent, and as far afield as Australia, Asia, the Amazon, the Arctic and Antarctica. Steve has led countless nature, cultural and photo tours in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Rwanda. He has received several awards for his in-depth photography of endangered mountain gorillas in Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), and his extensive photographic collection of Africa's disappearing tribal people has been published worldwide. Steve lives in a suburb of Nairobi.
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Rinie van Meurs has led hundreds of expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctica. Rinie studied forestry and civil engineering before finding his passions for travel, wildlife and photography. He has traveled the world privately—once spending a year in the Falkland Islands photographing and observing seabirds and wildlife—and has been an expedition leader in polar regions for more than 10 years. He has published two books of photography including his latest, Polar Odyssey, a photographic documentation of the polar regions in which he has traveled.
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Joe Van Os has been director of Joseph Van Os Photo Safaris for over three decades. His lifelong interest in nature has been the driving force in Joseph Van Os Photo Safaris, an enthusiasm that continues to influence new trip development to the world’s most spectacular nature photography locations. Joe is a seasoned tour leader, having led hundreds of tours and cruises worldwide. He is also a proficient and avid nature photographer. Thousands of his photographs regularly accompany advertising and articles in books, magazines and corporate publications around the world, represented as photo stock by Getty Images. Joe lives on rural Vashon Island surrounded by Washington State's Puget Sound.
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Werner Van Steen is a former mountain climber and free-climbing champion who, after visiting Alaska for the first time in 1998, decided to devote his time to nature and wildlife photography. Soon afterward, the World Wildlife Fund Belgium used his images for calendars and greeting cards and he was invited to numerous national and international expositions. In 2007, Werner won a Highly-Commended award in the prestigious BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. In 2011, he won the Nature’s Studio category in the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest. While he still most enjoys photographing in mountain environments, Werner travels all over the world in search of nature photography subjects. Werner lives in Belgium.
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Jeff Vanuga is a photographer based in Dubois, Wyoming. His images have been published in National Geographic Magazine, Outside, National Wildlife, Nature’s Best, New York Times and Wyoming Wildlife, and have appeared in Wyoming Tourism, Patagonia, Frontier Airlines, Ford, Nissan, and Early Winters advertising. His photography has won many awards, including first place in the National Wildlife Photography Competition, first place in BBC Wildlife Photographer on the year, Nature’s Best, Outdoor Writer’s Association and many other photographic competitions. Jeff’s images were recently published in the Compass Guide to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.
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Stuart Westmorland is recognized as one of the leading marine photographers in the US. His marine, travel, lifestyle, and natural history images appear in a variety of books, magazines, posters, calendars, brochures, aquarium displays and private art collections. He has led photo and natural history trips for nearly two decades, and conducted many photography seminars at yearly film festivals, camera clubs and nature group gatherings. His photography has graced the cover of over 200 magazines including Time, National Wildlife, Outside, Islands, Wine Spectator, Nature Conservancy, Spa, Caribbean Travel & Life, and Ritz Carlton. He was profiled at a NANPA conference as one of Tony Stone (now Getty) Images’ most successful marine and nature photographers. Stuart resides in Mill Creek, Washington.
Website: www.stuartwestmorland.com
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Cliff Zenor is a talented nature photographer, veteran tour leader and photo workshop instructor. He has led more than 100 workshops and tours in parks and preserves across the US and in far-flung places including Kenya and Galápagos. His photographs have appeared in Outdoor Photographer, Horticulture and Fine Gardening magazines, in the Chicago Tribune, and in textbooks and books. He was the principal photographer for Indoor Gardening and a participant in the Nature of America and Daybreak 2000 book projects. Cliff is an excellent teacher and an enthusiastic traveling companion. He lives in northern Indiana.
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