First Quarter 2016 Images
Take a virtual trip today and check out a selection my new imagery taken between January 1st and March 31st. Locations include Antarctica, India, Laos, California, Washington State, Florida, and Cuba.
Print of the Month April 2016: Angle of Repose
Double-Breasted Cormorants and a Great Blue Heron stand guard atop wooden sentinels overlooking the Hood Canal as Common Goldeneye ducks swim below. I’m very fortunate to have traveled the globe over the course of my career, yet some of my favorite images happen to come from my own back yard.
Save 20% on any Angle of Repose print purchased this month. These Limited Edition prints are printed on EPSON Somerset Velvet watercolor paper using archival EPSON Ultrachrome inks. After each print is approved, it is then titled, numbered, and I sign each one. Only 150 of each size will be made. Get more information about my Fine Art prints here.
New Photos from South Florida
Before heading off to Cuba a few weeks ago, I shot some aerials over southern Florida. Freshwater issues abound in this state. How do you accommodate an increasing and thirsty population and a thriving and powerful agricultural industry while protecting water quality and the fragile ecosystem of the Everglades, as well as other increasingly endangered wild areas of the state?
3/31 Deadline: Art Wolfe Next-Generation Photographers Grant
You won’t win if you don’t play!
The 2016 Art Wolfe Next-Generation Photographers Grant is now taking applications from professional nature photographers in the early stages of their careers. Recipients will be selected on the basis of skill, artistic excellence and by demonstrating the promise of future achievement.
The deadline for submissions is Thursday, March 31st.
From July 31 to August 6, 2016, seven successful applicants will attend a six-day workshop at a remote lodge in Katmai, Alaska, photographing the spectacular wildlife and rugged landscape.
https://events.artwolfe.com/event/2016-art-wolfe-next-generation-photographers-grant/
Intentional Art – Havana, Cuba
If you are into gritty abstracts like I am, you would love the ancient layers on the walls of Havana. I’ve spent 40 years photographing professionally around the world, evolving both my style and subjects. If you know me, you know how much I dislike being pigeonholed as a fur and feathers guy. Don’t get me wrong; I love photographing wildlife, but delving deep into my art history background has challenged me intellectually and helped me maintain enthusiasm and creativity for the medium. Getting in close to humanity’s coarse and granular surfaces creates photographic art on a different level.
Havana Street Scenes, Cuba
My first trip to Cuba was in 2001, and the U.S. State Department tried to fine me and the group I was with for supposedly traveling there illegally. Now, President Obama is visiting the country. How times have changed! With it comes the good and the bad, but it’s always fascinating to see a country starting to open up.
Migrations Book Launch Event At University Bookstore Monday 3/21
In April I will be releasing my 99th published work, Migrations: Wildlife in Motion. Inspired by the imaginative spatial designs of Dutch artist M.C. Escher, I traveled the globe in search of similar patterns in nature. The result is a book of remarkable wildlife images that captures both the beauty and the poignancy of animals on the move. Migrations: Wildlife in Motion (Earth Aware Editions, April 6, 2016, $35 hardcover) draws the reader into the energy, motion, and enduring spirit of life on the planet. The stunning images capture the delicate balance of our ecosystem, conveying the primordial stirrings that prompt a flock of snow geese to head south, monarch butterflies to bejewel a forest, or a colony of Indiana bats to snuggle in tight hibernation.
I am very excited about this release and loved working once again with Earth Aware/Insight Editions – their printing is always top quality.
The new book will be available for purchase and signing at this event, and is also available for pre-order on our online store. I hope to see you there!
What: I will be signing books and giving a short presentation about Migrations
Where: University Bookstore
4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105
206.634.3400
When: Monday, March 21 at 7pm
Cheating Death for a Photograph
Read incredible stories of near misses from photographers Mike Arzt, Don Smith, and Paul Moon, as well as an account by yours truly of a run-in with an Indian Rhinoceros while working on The Living Wild.
Technique: Effective Symmetrical Compositions
Reflections often offer perfectly symmetrical compositions. Shot on Location in the Pantanal, Brazil.
Want more composition tips? I am offering several more composition tips through my Photography as Art seminars this year throughout the U.S.
New Migrations out on April 5th
In April I will be releasing my 99th published work, Migrations: Wildlife in Motion. Inspired by the imaginative spatial designs of Dutch artist M.C. Escher, I traveled the globe in search of similar patterns in nature. The result is a book of remarkable wildlife images that captures both the beauty and the poignancy of animals on the move. Migrations: Wildlife in Motion (Earth Aware Editions, April 6, 2016, $35 hardcover) draws the reader into the energy, motion, and enduring spirit of life on the planet. The stunning images capture the delicate balance of our ecosystem, conveying the primordial stirrings that prompt a flock of snow geese to head south, monarch butterflies to bejewel a forest, or a colony of Indiana bats to snuggle in tight hibernation.
Kenya, Japan, South George Island, Trinidad, the Canadian Arctic, and the Ozarks are among the locations that create the backdrop for dramatic artistry showcasing “classic migrators,” the beauty of their trek, the splendor of the patterns they create, and the cycles they are compelled to repeat.
I am very excited about this release and loved working again with Earth Aware/Insight Editions– their printing is always top quality.
Book Launch Event! I will be signing books and giving a short presentation about Migrations.
When: 7pm, Monday, March 21st
Where: University Bookstore
4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105
