This presentation centers on the Himalaya region and reflects Wolfes most personal statement to date. A grand adventure begins with a brief look back at the history and events in Wolfes formative years that triggered his imagination and wonder towards a path of blending his creativity and art with photography while documenting the wild world. In its entirety, including photographs and video, it is designed for one and one-half hours. But it can be modified to accommodate a shorter format as well.
Art Wolfe is currently hosting a public television high-definition series, "Art Wolfe's Travels to the Edge." He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, and serves on the advisory boards for the Nature's Best Foundation, Bridges to Understanding. He is a Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers.
America from 500 Feet II: The Rediscovering America Project
America is more than its natural beauty. It's also people, places of historical significance and matters of great interest. Because of modern air travel and the Interstate highway system, we miss a great deal as we fly so far above or drive so fast past what is stunning about this great land. Bill Fortney initiated a book project to rediscover those things he was missing but that have great meaning to all of us. In this presentation, he will share how that journey came about and what he learned in the process. It's about not only rediscovering America, but rediscovering self.
Bill Fortney's speaker appearance is sponsored by Nikon USA.
In his 38-year career, Bill Fortney has done newspaper and magazine photojournalism, sports photography, medical photography, and commercial and annual report work. He was the official photographer for the Washington Redskins for one of their Super Bowl Championship seasons. For the last 15 years, Bill has been a leading nature photographer, founding the Great American Photography Workshops. Bill joined Nikon as a Nikon Professional Services technical representative six years ago. His books include The Nature of America, America from 500 Feet, American Vision and Bill Fortney's Great Photography Workshop: Getting Serious About Outdoor Photography. Bill's latest project is America from 500 Feet II, due out in fall 2008.
The Arctic is Norbert Rosing's passion. During the past two decades, he's traveled there more than 50 times to photograph the wildlife and its habitat. Using his best images of this spectacular and now threatened area, Norbert will show you a year in the Arctic. For 15 years, he spent every March in Wapusk National Park in Manitoba to photograph the emergence of polar bear families from their dens. Arctic foxes are in their prime fur at this time, and musk oxen and harp seals give birth to their young. Spring means the arrival of migrating birds such as the Arctic tern, Norbert's favorite bird. Beluga whales congregate in the Churchill River to mate and give birth. Norbert spent one summer following walruses in northern Hudson Bay. In Spitsbergen, he documented polar bears feeding on seals. Fall brings a change in the fur of Arctic hares while polar bears gather near Churchill and musk oxen search for shelter from the blizzards to come.
Norbert Rosing's love of the Arctic is reflected in his many books and magazine articles. Early in his career, when he wasn't photographing his native Germany, he was traveling in Scandinavia and learning to appreciate the beauty of the North. In 1988, he began his project on the polar bear, one that continues today. Besides the Arctic, he has photographed extensively in Yellowstone and in the parks of Germany. NorbertŐs work has been published in 8 articles in National Geographic, 3 in GEO and 13 in National Geographic Germany, as well as in many other publications. His 11th book, Arctic Fox: Life at the Top of the World, is out in fall 2008. Norbert is a fellow with the International League of Conservation Photographers.
(This session is part of the NANPA Awards Celebration program.)
Expedition Wildlife Photojournalism: Chasing Rare Species in the Far Corners of the World
Tim Laman specializes in a unique brand of nature photography - he makes expeditions to remote corners of the world to document endangered species, species new to science, and little known wonders of the natural world. In the past three years alone, he has gone by bush plane, helicopter and on foot in to six remote mountain ranges in New Guinea pursuing birds of paradise; trekked into Bioko Island's caldera in Equatorial Guinea in search of endangered primates; and joined a Conservation International marine survey expedition to Indonesia's Raja Ampat archipelago. What drives him on these quests? Besides the adventure, it's the opportunity to photograph subjects few, if any, have photographed, and use his images to promote awareness of threatened species and places. Tim will share some of his experiences and trace how his background as a rain forest biologist launched him on his photography career. He will show the challenge of making artistically appealing images while working under difficult tropical conditions. Tim's exciting conclusion is that despite what some people may say, there is still a whole world full of life out there that has not been over-photographed. It just may take a little extra effort to find it!
Tim Laman is a wildlife photojournalist and field biologist. His pioneering research in the rain forest canopy in Borneo led to a Ph.D. from Harvard University and his first National Geographic article in 1997. Since then, he has had 16 National Geographic articles, all of which have had a conservation message, and his stories and images have been appeared in numerous other publications. Tim has also published more than a dozen scientific articles related to rainforest ecology and birdlife. Eight of his images have received awards in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, and he has also won awards from Communication Arts, Nature's Best Photography and Pictures of the Year International. Tim is a research associate in the Ornithology Department at Harvard University and a fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers
America is more than its natural beauty. It's also people, places of historical significance and matters of great interest. Because of modern air travel and the Interstate highway system, we miss a great deal as we fly so far above or drive so fast past what is stunning about this great land. Bill Fortney initiated a book project to rediscover those things he was missing but that have great meaning to all of us. In this presentation, he will share how that journey came about and what he learned in the process. It's about not only rediscovering America, but rediscovering self.
The Arctic is Norbert Rosing's passion. During the past two decades, he's traveled there more than 50 times to photograph the wildlife and its habitat. Using his best images of this spectacular and now threatened area, Norbert will show you a year in the Arctic. For 15 years, he spent every March in Wapusk National Park in Manitoba to photograph the emergence of polar bear families from their dens. Arctic foxes are in their prime fur at this time, and musk oxen and harp seals give birth to their young. Spring means the arrival of migrating birds such as the Arctic tern, Norbert's favorite bird. Beluga whales congregate in the Churchill River to mate and give birth. Norbert spent one summer following walruses in northern Hudson Bay. In Spitsbergen, he documented polar bears feeding on seals. Fall brings a change in the fur of Arctic hares while polar bears gather near Churchill and musk oxen search for shelter from the blizzards to come.
Tim Laman specializes in a unique brand of nature photography - he makes expeditions to remote corners of the world to document endangered species, species new to science, and little known wonders of the natural world. In the past three years alone, he has gone by bush plane, helicopter and on foot in to six remote mountain ranges in New Guinea pursuing birds of paradise; trekked into Bioko Island's caldera in Equatorial Guinea in search of endangered primates; and joined a Conservation International marine survey expedition to Indonesia's Raja Ampat archipelago. What drives him on these quests? Besides the adventure, it's the opportunity to photograph subjects few, if any, have photographed, and use his images to promote awareness of threatened species and places. Tim will share some of his experiences and trace how his background as a rain forest biologist launched him on his photography career. He will show the challenge of making artistically appealing images while working under difficult tropical conditions. Tim's exciting conclusion is that despite what some people may say, there is still a whole world full of life out there that has not been over-photographed. It just may take a little extra effort to find it!
