Art Wolfe was presented with the Progress Medal Award at the Photographic Society of America (PSA) International Conference Honors Banquet in Charleston, SC. The Progress Medal, the Photographic Society of America’s highest honor, is awarded in recognition of a person who has made an outstanding contribution to the progress of photography or an allied subject.
The Photographic Society of America is honored to recognize Art Wolfe with the Progress Medal for his outstanding contribution to photography and the environment.
Recently, I went with a couple friends out to Washington’s Palouse region. It is an expansive landscape, full of sagelands, empty roads, and wheatfields—industrial agriculture at its most beautiful.
We decided to explore an old abandoned homestead, and were rewarded with a spectacular display of light and shadow in the attic. I try to look at the world with open eyes because you never know what you may find that has the potential to create an interesting photograph.
Support the Seattle Children’s Hospital tomorrow night (Nov 5th) by attending the performance of the Primal Symphony at Benaroya Hall.
Art has donated two limited edition prints and full sets of Travels to the Edge DVDs for the Seattle Symphony Guild’s silent auction taking place before the performance. Art has also donated the use of over 60 stunning images that will be projected during the Symphony.
The Symphony Guild is dedicated to enriching the quality of children’s lives in the Northwest and primarily raises funds through an annual benefit concert, composed by Mateo Messina, with proceeds benefiting uncompensated care at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Silent Auction starts at 6:30pm and the performance starts at 8pm.
If you’re in Germany, join Art at WunderWelten in Friedshafen. WunderWelten is THE nature and photography festival that should not be missed and it will be Art’s only European venue this year.
On November 6, Art will be giving a four-hour seminar The Art of Nature Photography as well as his presentation “Between Heaven & Earth” later in the day.
Last Thursday, Art, Gavriel Jecan, Libby Pfeiffer, and myself had a meeting regarding the upcoming workshops for 2011. We started by looking at our calendars to see who was doing what and when, then we looked at the spreadsheet of locations that all of you voted for, and then we talked–for almost an hour. Everyone out there has selected some amazing world-wide destinations. Topping the list in order are Iceland, Canada, Alaska, and Patagonia. What we came to realize is that we want more opinions on where to travel to in the United States. Now if you just have to go to some international destination, it is still okay to tell us about that too. So don’t be shy, add a comment here or head over to Twitter and tell us by adding the hashtag #travelwithart to your tweet. We will be keeping score for the next week. Then, there will be another meeting.
This past weekend I made a trip to the Olympic Peninsula and stopped at one of my favorite locations, Olympic National Park’s Lake Crescent.
Even in the rain forest fall colors are evident now. The brilliant yellows of the maples contrast with the marine blue of the lake and the bright greens of the moss and ferns.
