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Patrice Aguilar

Patrice Aguilar

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,…

Gary Alt

Gary Alt

Gary Alt is recognized as one of the leading bear research biologists in North America. His work with bears and his photographs have been featured in People, Sports Illustrated, Reader’s Digest and National Wildlife, as well as a variety of national television programs. Gary’s training…

Daniel Bergmann

Daniel Bergmann

Daniel Bergmann lives in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he works as a professional nature photographer. He has authored a number of books, with the latest being Iceland Landscapes (2011), which is considered one of the finest collections of landscape images from Iceland. While…

Paulo Boute

Paulo Boute

Paulo Boute is one of the pioneering birders and ornithologists in Brazil. Paulo has 40 years of experience guiding  photographers and birders throughout Brazil and abroad, but his first love is the wildlife-rich Pantanal—an area he knows intimately. Paulo has…

Mike Byrne

Mike Byrne

Mike Byrne has worked as an independent photographer and filmmaker for over 20 years. Raised among Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, he counts hiking, skiing and photographing the famous landscapes and wildlife of the Banff–Canmore–Lake Louise area among his longtime passions. These…

David Jaffe

David Jaffe

David Jaffe has been guiding travelers and teaching about the natural world and how to photograph it for over 30 years. Throughout his professional career, he has worked as a US national park ranger, wilderness expedition leader, and has guided…

Wayne Lynch

Wayne Lynch

Wayne Lynch is a former emergency physician who has worked for more than a quarter century 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…

Josh Miller

Josh Miller

Josh Miller is a professional nature photographer and educator. For more than twenty years he has used these skills to help students feel comfortable pushing their creative boundaries and grow as photographers. Raised in the Pacific Northwest, Josh developed a…

Mehmet Özbalci

Mehmet Özbalci

Mehmet Özbalci is an exceptional English-speaking guide thoroughly versed in Turkish history and culture. An excellent photographer himself, Mehmet has been organizing and leading cultural expeditions since 1982 and photo tours since 1991. He has outstanding logistics knowledge of both…

Todd Pierce

Todd W. Pierce

Todd Winslow Pierce is a professional landscape and conservation photographer based in Vail, Colorado. His images have appeared in numerous national & regional publications, advertisements, select marketing campaigns and fine art installations. Todd has worked on commercial and fine art…

Eric Rock

Eric Rock is a leading travel and nature photographer who discovered his passion for photography early in life. At the age of sixteen he purchased his first camera and began to explore the natural world. While studying wildlife biology at the…

James Rogerson

James Rogerson

James Rogerson is a UK-based naturalist and photographer.  He has a background working in UK zoological institutions and holds a degree in animal behavior. He is currently a lecturer on wildlife management and is a wildlife photography guide working on…

Alejandro Ronchetti

Alejandro Ronchetti

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 more than 30…

Melissa Scott

Melissa Scott

Melissa Scott is an enthusiastic professional naturalist and photographer with over 26 years of experience raising environmental awareness through firsthand encounters with our natural world. Her immersion in photography began in 1987, inspired by the beauty and grandeur of Glacier…

John Shaw

John Shaw

John Shaw has been a professional nature photographer since the early 1970s and has photographed on every continent, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from Provence to Patagonia. His images have been published widely, in advertising, books, and calendars. He…

Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas left the pharmacy profession more than 20 years ago to pursue his passion for wildlife photography. Since then, he has photographed on every continent. Images from these trips have appeared in numerous publications, including Audubon, Sierra, National Geographic, National Wildlife and Nature’s Best. Mark’s…

Rinie van Meurs

Rinie van Meurs

Rinie van Meurs has been the expedition leader on hundreds of voyages in the Arctic and Antarctica over the past 35 years—more than 250 to Spitsbergen/Svalbard alone! No one else has led so many expedition cruises throughout this archipelago—and Rinie…

Joe Van Os

Joe Van Os

Joe Van Os has been director of Joseph Van Os Photo Safaris for over four 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…

Jeff Vanuga

Jeff Vanuga is a photographer based in Dubois, Wyoming. His images have been published in National Geographic Magazine, Outside, National Wildlife, Nature’s Best, The New York Times and Wyoming Wildlife, and have appeared in Wyoming Tourism, Patagonia, Frontier Airlines, Ford, Nissan and Early…

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