California holds 23 federally protected areas. It has the 3rd most visited National Park in the United States-Yosemite. There are 550 miles of coastline along its pacific border. It houses the highest peak in lower North America with Mount Whitney and in the same breath the lowest place in the United States with Death Valley. And, it was the home to Ansel Adams and John Muir two of the most famous nature conservationists our country has ever seen. It is a place worth photographing and just plain exploring.
On the 25th of September, Art Wolfe will be teaching the Art of Composition in San Jose as the first stop of his fall lecture tour. If you live in the vicinity and have an interest in photography sign up to learn how to create photographs that have visual impact and go beyond the typical iconic images seen of places like Yosemite and Death Valley.
The government of Tanzania is launching an effort to build a highway across the northern reaches of Serengeti National Park—directly across the path of millions of migratory animals. This would be an ecological disaster for the wildlife as seriously undermine Tanzania’s important tourism trade.
On Monday Art, Gavriel Jecan, Jay Goodrich, and Rich Reid arrived in Jackson, Wyoming to start scouting locations for our Grand Teton Workshop. They made a quick trip to Yellowstone to visit a burn area from a wildfire that Art filmed last year. The location was stunning. Here is an abstract that Art shot from that visit. Don’t forget our next instructional event will be in San Jose, CA on September 25, 2010. Art will be speaking about the Art of Composition. There are still spaces left and with a $195 entrance fee why wouldn’t you attend?
I have travelled in the Pakistan’s mountainous regions which have been hit very hard by the unprecedented flooding. These trips were among the most fascinating and rewarding of my life—wherever I went, I was warmly greeted and received by the Balti peoples. Life has always been exceptionally difficult for these people, and their struggle for survival has become that much worse.
It is important that people put their religious & political ideologies aside and do what is right. We have so much. Please donate to your favorite charity sending aid to Pakistan.
William Neill's New E-Book: YOSEMITE: VOLUME ONE Digital Edition
Friend and fellow photographer William Neill has just released a new e-book on Yosemite. The book comes complete with technical info, as well as thoughts from what Bill was thinking when creating the images. You can purchase and download William Neill’s Yosemite Volume One directly from his website.
And last week’s blue fox:
