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  • FOR USE ONLY IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE PRINTS FOR NATURE SALE<br />
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An orphaned reticulated giraffe nuzzles Sarara Camp wildlife keeper Lekupania. This giraffe was rehabilitated and returned to the wild, as a number of others have done before him. Right now, giraffe are undergoing what has been referred to as a silent extinction. Current estimates are that giraffe populations across Africa have dropped 40 percent in three decades, plummeting from approximately 155,000 in the late 1980s to under 100,000 today. The decline is thought to be caused to habitat loss and fragmentation and poaching, but because there havenít been long term conservation efforts in the past, itís hard to know exactly what is happening. Reticulated giraffe themselves number fewer than 16,000 individuals. Scientists are now undertaking major studies to better understand why giraffe are disappearing and what can be done to stop it.<br />
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BIO: Nikon Ambassador and National Geographic Magazine photographer Ami Vitale has traveled to more than 100 countries, bearing witness not only to violence and conflict, but also to surreal beauty and the enduring power of the human spirit. Throughout the years, Ami has lived in mud huts and war zones, contracted malaria, and donned a panda suitó keeping true to her belief in the importance of ìliving the story.î  In 2009, after shooting a powerful story on the transport and release of one the worldís last northern white rhinos, Ami shifted her focus to todayís most compelling wildlife and environmental stories. She is a five-time recipient of World Press Photos, including 1st Prize for her 2018 National Geographic magazine story about a community in Kenya protecting elephants. She published a best-selling book, Panda Love, on the secret lives of pandas.<br />
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WEBSITE: amivitale.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @amivitale
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  • The emperor penguin is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is endemic to Antarctica. The male and female are similar in plumage and size. These flightless birds breed in the winter. After a courtship of several weeks, a female emperor penguin lays one single egg then leaves! Each penguin egg's father balances it on his feet and covers it with his brood pouch, a very warm layer of feathered skin designed to keep the egg cozy. There the males stand, for about 65 days, through icy temperatures, cruel winds, and blinding storms. Finally, after about two months, the females return from the sea, bringing food they regurgitate, or bring up, to feed the now hatched chicks. The males eagerly leave for their own fishing session at sea, and the mothers take over care of the chicks for a while. As the young penguins grow, adults leave them in groups of chicks called crèches while they leave to fish. Five years from now, if they survive in their ocean home, the young penguins will return to become parents themselves.<br />
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There is a reason for the timing of emperor penguins' hatching. By December, when the Antarctic weather has warmed somewhat, the ice the penguins occupy begins to break up, bringing open waters closer to the nesting sites.<br />
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I was literally lying flat on the floor while I was shooting this image. Why I did this is because when we go lower than their height they feel less scared being around us and for the same reason this particular Emperor family spent a good amount of time besides me. In this particular trip I had walked an average of 8 hours per day in search of a perfect frame.<br />
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BIO: My name is Thomas Vijayan, I am basically an Architect hailing from Kerala, India also known as God’s Own Country, I was raised in Bangalore and now settled in Canada with my family. I have traveled all the seven continents for photography which is my passion but not my profession.<br />
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WEBSITE: thomasvijayan.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @thomasvijayan
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  • A lion father meets his cub for the first time in the Masai Mara, Kenya. <br />
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BIO: Suzi Eszterhas is an award-winning wildlife photographer best known for her work documenting newborn animals and family life in the wild.  She has photographed over 100 cover and feature stories for publications such as TIME, Smithsonian, BBC Wildlife, The New York Times, Ranger Rick, and National Geographic Kids. As an author, Suzi has 21 books in print with another three in progress. <br />
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Suzi is a dedicated conservationist and helps raise funds and awareness for environmental organizations around the globe. She also recently founded Girls Who Click, a non-profit dedicated to encouraging young women to enter this male-dominated profession. <br />
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WEBSITE: suzieszterhas.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @suzieszterhas
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  • A herd of mountain goats basks in the sunlight. North Cascades, Washington.<br />
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BIO: Steven Gabriel Gnam is a photographer using the medium to explore and illuminate our connection to Nature. His work is a celebration of the wild and encourages protecting our remaining wildlands. Steven lives with his wife and daughter in the Pacific Northwest where, when not on assignment, he is focused on building soil, growing food, mountain running, and keeping bees.<br />
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WEBSITE: gnam.photo<br />
INSTAGRAM: @steven_gnam
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  • You forget about the intense cold when you stumble upon an otherworldly scene like this from the frozen forests of Riisitunturi, Finnish Lapland - January 2019<br />
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BIO: Stian Klo was born in February 1980 in Harstad, Northern Norway, where he also lives today. He's a father of two, and today he runs Discover North AS (www.lofotentours.com) together with friend, co-founder and business partner Arild Heitmann. Discover North AS is one of the leading tour operators in the arctic/polar parts of the world for pure photography tours/workshops. <br />
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He's been a fulltime and award winning nature and landscape photographer since 2014. His work has been published in highly esteemed magazines such as National Geographic, Lonely Planet Traveller Magazine, TIME Magazine, Die Zeit, Business Insider and several more. His images and articles have also been licensed to international ad-campaigns and product launches for companies such as Apple, Disney, Lonely Planet, Instagram, Nike and BBC to name a few.<br />
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WEBSITE: lofotentours.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @stianmklo
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  • This image was taken for the first ever @natgeo wild cougar story. I was looking for an image that spoke to the fact that as our cities expand we move into the forests and grasslands - the homes of animals. The photo sparked a movement to protect southern California’s last cougars and other wildlife in two large protected areas bisected by the 101 Freeway north of L.A. It will be the World’s Largest Wildlife Overpass—and will be completed by 2022.<br />
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BIO: Steve Winter has been a photographer for National Geographic for over two decades, He specializes in wildlife, and particularly, big cats. He is a Nat Geo Explorer and he’s been named BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year and BBC Wildlife Photojournalist of the Year. He was a two-time winner of Picture of the Year International’s Global Vision Award and won 1st prize in the nature story category from World Press Photo in 2008 and 2014. And won 2nd prize in World Press Photo 2020 in the Contemporary Issues category. He has appeared on 60 Minutes, CBS Nightly News, NPR, BBC, CNN, NG WILD and other media outlets. He speaks globally on big cats and conservation for Nat Geo LIVE.<br />
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In November 2013, National Geographic published Steve’s photography book Tigers Forever: Saving the World’s Most Endangered Cat, with text written by NG Explorer and environmental journalist Sharon Guynup, who is also a Woodrow Wilson Global Fellow.<br />
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WEBSITE: stevewinterphoto.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @stevewinterphoto
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  • During the winter months in the South Pacific, Humpback Whales make a mammoth 6000km migration from the rich feeding grounds in the southern ocean to the warm waters of the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific. This is one of the longest migrations known in the animal kingdom. They migrate in order to mate and give birth depending on where they are in their life cycle. Multiple males will chase females, vying for their attention in frighteningly epic ‘heat runs’ and at the same time pregnant mothers will give birth and nurse their new born calves under the protective eye of humpback ‘midwives’. Once the winter months are done and the calves have taken on board enough rich fatty milk to survive the trip back down to the feeding grounds the migration starts once again. The juvenile whales (such as this one) that we encounter are full of energy and curiosity, just like any human child, dancing and playing underwater intrigued by the humans that watch them in awe. <br />
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BIO: Steve Woods is a passionate photographer trying to change and help the world with his images. Originally from the UK he moved from shooting press and sports for national newspapers to working in marine conservation in Indonesia, setting up a shark foundation and documenting the elasmobranch fisheries of eastern Lombok. Widely published in the national press, Steve is evolving his career and focuses on shooting wildlife and conservation stories to raise awareness and much needed funds for various causes and NGO’s. <br />
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WEBSITE: stevewoodsphotography.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @steve_woods_photography
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  • Take The Lead<br />
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White rhino calves often walk in front of their mothers, in contrast to black rhino calves, who will usually stay behind their mother.  This difference is suspected to be due to differences in grazing behaviour and habitat, black rhino are foragers and spend more time in thicker bush, which would be dangerous for a calve to lead into, where predators could be hiding.<br />
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Photographed 29 April, 2016. Kenya.<br />
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BIO: Shannon Wild is an Aussie based in Africa and working wherever the wildlife calls. She’s a passionate wildlife lover and conservationist at heart with a need for technical excellence in what she does.<br />
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Since 2004 she’s worked as a wildlife photographer,  cinematographer and speaker for companies such as NatGeo Wild, WildAid, United Nations as well as various wildlife NGO's and non-profits along with commercial campaigns.<br />
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In 2017 she founded Wild In Africa® - Bracelets for Wildlife as a way to directly give back to some of the incredible conservation organizations she’s worked with over the years.<br />
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WEBSITE: shannonwild.photoshelter.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @Shannon__Wild
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  • Icy water flows through McDonald Falls during winter in Glacier National Park, Montana. <br />
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BIO: Sofia Jaramillo is a Latina outdoor adventure photographer based in Wyoming. She tells stories of underrepresented communities in the mountains and beyond. She believes in the power of storytelling and, with this approach, has photographed for National Geographic, New York Times, Outside Magazine, and various worldwide ad campaigns. <br />
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WEBSITE: sofiajaramillophoto.com <br />
INSTAGRAM: @sofia_jaramillo5
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  • The swans were constantly standing up, sitting down, heading off, interacting and calling. 'I suddenly saw that this could be the key to a completely different kind of image - one that shows the rhythms of a flock's movements,' says Stefano. He started to imagine the group of swans as one, flowing over the ice, seen at different points in time and space, and he set out to create the illusion. The swan enters lower right, wanders around a bit, sits down a few times, and exits top right - a single shot of continuous time and motion.<br />
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BIO: Stefano Unterthiner is widely published in magazines worldwide, the author of eight photography books and the winner of multiple awards in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. He specializes in telling the life stories of animals, living in close contact with his chosen species for long periods. He also has a strong commitment to wildlife conservation and environmental issues, with a particular interest in human-wildlife conflict and coexistence. Since 2009, Stefano has been a regular contributing photographer for National Geographic Magazine. He lives with his wife Stéphanie and their children in the Aosta Valley, Italy.<br />
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WEBSITE: stefanounterthiner.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @stefanounterthiner
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  • The National bird of India, the peafowl Pavo cristatus, gathers up the first rays of sunlight on a cool winter morning in Bandipur National Park. This image, to me, captures the essence of an Indian jungle at dawn.<br />
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BIO: BAFTA award winning film-maker and National Geographic Fellow, Sandesh Kadur, creates documentary films that have aired worldwide on prominent networks such as National Geographic, the BBC, Netflix, Discovery Channel, and Animal Planet.<br />
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Sandesh is the producer of a 3-part docuseries for National Geographic titled ‘Wild Cats of India’ & ‘India’s Wild Leopards’. He is also the co-author of two books, Sahyadris: India’s Western Ghats – A Vanishing Heritage (2005) and Himalaya – Mountains of Life (2013).<br />
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WEBSITE: sandeshkadur.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @sandesh_kadur
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  • A black panther in search of first light.<br />
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BIO: Shaaz Jung is a wildlife cinematographer and professional photographer. He specializes in documenting and studying big cats in South India and East Africa. Shaaz has dedicated the past five years to documenting melanistic leopards in the wild and was the 'Director of Photography' for a National Geographic feature film called 'The Real Black Panther'. He is an Ambassador for Nikon and Samsung in India and also runs eco-friendly Safari Lodges, where he guides expeditions into the wilderness.<br />
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WEBSITE: shaazjung.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @shaazjung
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  • A pup bites at a feather while another nuzzles the pack’s aging matriarch, White Scarf (far right). After the last known kill she was part of, White Scarf made sure the pups ate first and later disappeared out on the tundra. Ellesmere Island, Canada 2018<br />
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BIO: In 2011, Ronan Donovan was researching chimpanzees in Uganda’s Kibale National Park for Harvard professor Richard Wrangham when he realized that his true passion lies in visual storytelling. The images he made during that year in Uganda helped him establish a career as a conservation photographer. Part of his work involved climbing fig trees to observe the chimps, and he brought his camera with him, creating a series of photographs of the primates from above. These images put Ronan on National Geographic’s radar, and in 2014 he began a yearlong assignment on Yellowstone’s gray wolves, which was published in the May 2016 issue of National Geographic Magazine. Ronan continues his work surrounding human coexistence with large predators from his home in the Northern Rockies. <br />
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WEBSITE: ronandonovan.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @ronan_donovan
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  • Eastern Coast of United Kingdom.<br />
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BIO: Robert Clark is a freelance photographer based in Brooklyn, Ny. Clark is the author of five monographs: The newly published Friday Night Lives, Evolution A Visual Record, Feathers Displays of Brilliant Plumage, First Down Houston A Year with the Houston Texans and Image America - the first photography book shot solely with a cellphone camera.  His work has regularly appeared in National Geographic Magazine for the last 25 years, work with National Geographic, Clark has photographed  50 stories. His coverage for "Was Darwin Wrong?" helped National Geographic garner a National Magazine award in 2005 and ignited his passion for evolutionary biology. Early in his career, Clark documented the lives of high school football players for iconic  book Friday Night Lights. His newly released book, Friday Night Lives re-connects with the players from the 1988 Permian Panthers of Odessa Texas. In 2003, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston brought Clark back to Texas to capture the first year the Houston Texans.  Making the move to moving pictures Clark recently directed the short film "8 Seconds" as part of an advertising campaign for Russell Athletic which was awarded a Cleo. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.<br />
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WEBSITE: RobertClark.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @RobertClarkphoto
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  • Polar Bear family, a mother and two cubs, have reached the edge of the sea ice in Svalbard. In recent years, sea ice has been melting sooner and returning later each year. Polar Bears depend on sea ice for survival and hunting, and without it they'll go extinct. Polar Bear population is listed as Vulnerable in the IUCN and scientists predict they may go extinct within this century. <br />
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BIO: As a pro wildlife photographer, Roie Galitz has been traveling all over the world, capturing intimate and rarely seen moments for leading magazines and films. With equal passion and commitment, Roie is acting as a Greenpeace ambassador and engaging in conservation work around the globe. His video and still photography is a strong testimony to the struggle of the majestic animals he meets throughout his expedition, under the threats of climate change . To help protect them, he shares their stories in fascinating talks. He is recognized for his talks at the United Nations HQ, the NYC Climate Week and 3 TEDx talks alongside global conventions everywhere. Galitz is also an ambassador for Gitzo, Lowepro, G-Technology and other brands. <br />
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WEBSITE: www.galitz.com <br />
INSTAGRAM: @roiegalitz
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  • Areas of Borneo have been turned into a moonscapes by illegal gold miners in Central Kalimantan. Indonesian farmers turn their hoes to mining, illegally digging for gold on a torn up riverbank in Borneo. For the chance to make five dollars a day, thousands have left their fields to join Indonesia’s gold rush. East Java has high unemployment and there are many migrant workers on Kalimantan (Borneo) from Java who came initially to do artisanal timber work. The government stomped out the little timber guys in favor of two big companies so they could control (read “profit from”) the industry.  So all the artisanal timber workers switched to gold. Miners test in the 1000-ppm plus range for mercury (normal is 170 to 300). Eastern Java is severely overcrowded and the government has an official transmigration program over to Kalimantan.  In Eastern Java they can earn about 100RP a day hoeing the fields. Here they can earn upwards of 30,000-60,000RP ($3-$6) a day. So it is worth it to them to camp in this area, having only the water (full of mercury) from the amalgam ponds to bathe and drink.<br />
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BIO: Randy Olson is a photographer in the documentary tradition. He often works with his wife, Melissa Farlow and their work has taken them to 50 countries over the past 30 years. Even though they are published in LIFE, GEO, Smithsonian and other magazines, they have primarily worked on projects for the National Geographic Society. They normally work individually, but have co-produced National Geographic magazine stories on northern California, American national parks, and the Alps. They photographed the southern United States for a book by Collins Publishing and have collaborated on over 70 books by various publishers.<br />
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WEBSITE: olsonfarlow.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @randyolson
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  • Even in the deadliest, driest corner of our planet, a fortunate stroke of serendipity can cause life to emerge. Shot on a quiet morning in Deadvlei, Namibia, when the entire scene instantly came to life by the sudden occurrence of sea mist, creating constantly changing compositions and patterns. A wonderful display of the power of nature. <br />
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BIO: Pie Aerts is a Dutch documentary and wildlife photographer with a sincere interest in human/wildlife conflict stories. Through his lens, he examines the intricate relationship between animals, humans and nature. And, as we become increasingly distant from each other and ourselves, he uses photography to explore the cause of this disconnect. In March 2020, when the world came to a halt and all of his projects were cancelled or put on hold, he initiated Prints for Wildlife, a month-long fundraiser for conservation. In just under a month he raised $ 660,000 for conservation. Pie is an official Canon Europe Ambassador. <br />
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Website: www.pieaerts.com<br />
Instagram: @pie_aerts
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  • A twenty-six photo aerial drone stitch of the mighty Onekotan of the Kuril Island chain, a volcanic archipelago in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast. <br />
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BIO: Renan Ozturk lives to tell stories about our connection to the natural world, often set within the most challenging environments on Earth. He’s constantly searching for projects that move him -- films that have a strong visual identity matched with some deeply compelling human element. <br />
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He began his career as an expedition climber and landscape artist, spending years living in a tent beneath the big walls of U.S. National Parks and in the snowy Himalayan mountains. All of his paintings were created on expedition, carrying large cotton canvases on his back, sometimes even using natural pigments pulled straight from the earth to capture these wildly beautiful landscapes. He received National Geographic Adventurer of the Year in 2013 for his combination of cutting-edge first ascents and visual storytelling.  <br />
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Currently, Renan works as a commercial and documentary filmmaker, an expedition climber for The North Face, and a photojournalist for Sony and National Geographic. The films he’s made over the years have had a global presence; he’s probably best known for MERU (cinematographer/subject), which won the 2015 Audience Choice Award at Sundance, and the critically acclaimed Sherpa (cinematographer/co-director), which screened at TIFF and Telluride.   <br />
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WEBSITE: renanozturk.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @renan_ozturk
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  • Leopard in a tree in Samburu National Reserve. I saw this leopard in northern Kenya's Samburu National Reserve go from napping to ready to pounce in seconds. The slightest distant sound of hooves awoke this predator, alerting her to her next meal. Watching her taught me the power of natural sounds and instinct. <br />
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BIO: Pete McBride has spent two decades studying the world with a camera. A self-taught photographer, filmmaker, writer, and public speaker, he has traveled on assignment to over 75 countries for the National Geographic Society, Smithsonian, Google, The Nature Conservancy and spoken on stages for TEDx, The World Economic Forum, USAID, Nat Geo Live and more. <br />
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After a decade documenting remote expeditions from Everest to Antarctica, McBride decided to focus his cameras closer to home on a subject closer to his heart—his backyard river, the Colorado. Four years and 1500 river-miles later, McBride produced an acclaimed book, three award-winning documentaries and co-hosted a PBS TV program. Other watersheds soon called, including a source-to-sea look at India’s sacred Ganges River.<br />
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His latest project replaced rafting with walking—a lot of it. Over the course of a year, McBride hiked the entire length of Grand Canyon National Park— over 750 miles without a trail — to highlight development challenges facing this iconic landscape. McBride has since released a Rizzoli book, “Grand Canyon: Between River and Rim” that won a National Outdoor Book Award and a feature-length documentary, Into the Grand Canyon for National Geographic Channel, which won Best Feature at the Banff Mountain Film Festival among others. <br />
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McBride resides in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.  <br />
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WEBSITE: petemcbride.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @pedromcbride
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  • Dark and melancholy at first look, but there is hope in the seed that is maturing and preparing to drop. A wild plum tree patiently waiting for its chance to start life and produce flowers and plums for the enjoyment and use of future generations. Looking past the surface is beauty and a depth waiting to be enjoyed.<br />
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Paige Baker is a fine art and commercial photographer currently based in western North Dakota. Originally from the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, his proximity to the Bakken oil fields continues to provide opportunities to capture and show beauty in an industrial and natural environment. <br />
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WEBSITE: paigebakerphotography.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @paigebakerphotography
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  • Look of love. Taken at Samburu National Reserve, Kenya.<br />
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BIO: Nili Gudhka was born in a small town called Kitale in Kenya. She grew up looking at the stunning Mt. Elgon which made her fall in love with nature from a very early age. She then moved to Perth, Australia to complete her Bachelors in Accounting and Finance. Nili moved back to Kenya in 2013 and whilst working in the corporate world, her interest wildlife and photography was only just a hobby. Later in 2016, she started making regular safari trips with a basic Nikon DSLR camera and that’s where her passion for photography grew stronger. After slowly investing in better equipment she finally decided to leave the corporate world and become a full time wildlife photographer and safari planner.<br />
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Not only does she love photographing wild animals, but conservation and learning animal behavior is also extremely important to her.<br />
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WEBSITE: niligudhka.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @thejunglechic
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  • The eye of a zebra catches the last light of the day as it looks up while drinking at river in South Africa. One of Africa’s most recognisable species, the plains zebra is almost entirely confined to protected areas and, with its population decreasing, reminds us that even our most iconic wildlife needs our protection.<br />
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BIO: Neil Aldridge is a conservationist, photographer and filmmaker who uses his work to raise awareness and support for endangered wildlife and threatened places. Having grown up in Africa, he has committed many years to championing the continent’s species. His images have won awards including World Press, the overall title of European Wildlife Photographer of the Year and two British Wildlife Photography Awards. Neil is invested in developing the future of conservation storytelling through his work as a lecturer at Falmouth University in Cornwall, England.<br />
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WEBSITE: conservationphotojournalism.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @aldridgephoto
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  • A Game of Tones in the Masai Mara.<br />
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BIO: My name is Mwarv and I tell stories through photography and film. I help brands and organisations get their message across in ways that will not only keep their target audiences engaged, but also get them to respond as desired. I've been doing this for over 20 years now, first as an advertising creative, and now as a photographer and filmmaker, picking up a couple of awards along the way.<br />
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WEBSITE: click.co.ke/new<br />
INSTAGRAM: @mwarv
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  • Kautokeino, Norway-April 5, 2018: Jovsset Ante Sara's reindeer graze on the tundra. Jovsset feeds them a few times a week at this time of year when the area has been grazed upon most of the winter and the reindeer are anxious to begin their spring migration. The Sami people, the only recognized indigenous group in Europe who inhabit the area of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and the oblast peninsula of Russia are perhaps best known for their traditional livelihood of reindeer herding. Although in Norway the Sami were granted rights and protections to their ancestral land in order to herd reindeer, their livelihood is being threatened by energy and mining projects as well as restrictions on their herd population by the Norwegian government who sites overgrazing on the tundra as their objective for regulating the reindeer population. Herders such as Jovsset Ante Sara and the Eira family have challenged the government as well as industrial companies in an effort to preserve their way of life. <br />
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BIO: Nadia Shira Cohen is a freelance photographer, writer and videographer contributing to the New York Times, National Geographic, Harpers and many international publications as well as working with non-profit organizations. Nadia was born in Boston in 1977. At 15 she received her first camera, in the same moment she was diagnosed with cancer. She began to make self-portraits to document the physical and emotional evolution of being sick as well as to photograph her fellow oncology patients at Mass General Hospital in Boston. She is a World Press Photo winner and her work has been exhibited internationally in The United States, Russia, Belgium, Spain, Mexico, Italy, and Peru. She is an IWMF Fellow and a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting grant recipient for her work on gold mining in Romania. <br />
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WEBSITE: nadiashiracohen.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @nadiashiracohen
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  • Humpback Whale and her calf swimming in Tonga Vava'u.<br />
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BIO: Michaela Skovranova is an Australia-based documentary photographer and a filmmaker specialising in environmental storytelling.  <br />
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Michaela's work has focused on capturing intimate environmental stories - from documenting the Great Barrier Reef restoration for National Geographic, turbulent oceans of The Great Australian Bight, impacts of climate change in Antarctica to the aftermath of the Australian Bushfires.<br />
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She completed the first-ever Facebook underwater live video in Australia on World Ocean's Day 2018, as part of National Geographic Planet or Plastic campaign focusing on the impact plastic has on the marine ecosystem.<br />
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In 2019 she was featured in a National Geographic documentary Protecting Paradise and the 2020 National Geographic x OPPO Uncover Antarctica campaign.<br />
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Michaela is a National Geographic expert and she runs regular photography and video workshops across Australia and overseas. <br />
Her short film Nature Love Stories premiered at TEDx Sydney 2019. Her latest release documenting the impacts of climate change in Antarctica will premiere at TEDx Sydney in late 2020.<br />
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WEBSITE: mishku.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @mishkusk
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  • Newly emerged from their den, a polar bear cub enjoys the freedom and playtime on the snow-covered tundra in Wapusk National Park, Canada <br />
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BIO: Michelle Valberg is an award-winning Canadian wildlife photographer who has been telling stories with her camera for more than 30 years. She has traveled to all continents in search of adventure and photographic opportunities. She is particularly celebrated for her passion for Canada and the Arctic. A Canadian Nikon Ambassador, her images appear on magazine covers, in numerous publications, exhibitions and embassies worldwide. Her iconic images appear on a Royal Canadian Mint coin and on Canada Post stamps. Michelle’s work extends beyond photography. In 2009, she founded Project North, a not-for-profit organization committed to delivering education and sport-based opportunities to youth in Canada’s Arctic. Since its inception, $1,000,000 in new sports equipment has been delivered to more than 30 northern communities in Canada. Michelle is the first Canadian Geographic Photographer-in-Residence and she has published 4 books. Michelle is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society and an International Fellow of the Explorer's Club in New York City. <br />
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WEBSITE: michellevalberg.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @michellevalbergphotography
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  • Mountains in the mist, Wulingyuan National Park, Hunan, China: this UNESCO World Heritage Site is noted for more than 3,000 sandstone pillars and peaks many over 200 metres (660 ft) in height. It was the inspiration for the Hallelujah Floating Mountains of Pandora in the block buster film Avatar. <br />
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The trick to photographing these pillars is to capture them during or after a rain when the super moist air creates a fog condition. I photographed these mountains four times in four different seasons and only saw the fog twice and for a fleeting less than an hour time frame. Without fog, in my opinion there is no picture. <br />
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BIO: Sony Ambassador Michael Yamashita has shot for National Geographic for more than 30 years, combining his passions of travel and photography with his love of history and culture. An Asian Studies major at Wesleyan University and fluent in Japanese, Michael followed his roots to become a Far East expert. In addition to his work throughout Asia, which has included intensive concentrations in China, Japan, Korea, and India, his assignments have taken him to six continents.<br />
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Michael’s specialty has been in retracing the journeys of iconic explorers, such as Marco Polo and the Chinese admiral Zheng He, along their historic routes to illuminate the legacy of the Silk Road and to help us understand China’s sweeping The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).<br />
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Michael has won a host of industry awards, including those from the prestigious Pictures of the Year competition, Photo District News, the New York Art Directors Club, and the Asian American Journalists Association. His most recent exhibits are in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Italy, Germany, and closer to home, at The Carter Center, LACMA, and the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art. Along with two documentary feature films, Yamashita has published 16 books in multiple languages, including his latest, the Silk Road Journey.<br />
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WEBSITE: michaelyamashita.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @yamashitaphoto
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  • Misty mornings in the forest, caked in snow. <br />
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BIO: Michael Shainblum is a landscape, timelapse and aerial photographer based in San Francisco, California. He has been working professionally as a photographer and filmmaker for 11 years since the age of 16. Michael first made a name for himself through his unique creativity and the ability to capture scenes and moments in his distinct style of surreal, visual story telling. A dedication to challenging the boundaries of creativity, as well as a flair for coming up with unique ideas, has since resulted in this dynamic visual artist being commissioned by large clients including Nike, Samsung, Facebook, LG, Apple and Google. You will also be able to find Michael's work published widely by media outlets such as National Geographic, Wired Magazine and The Weather Channel.<br />
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WEBSITE: shainblumphoto.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @shainblumphotography
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  • TANZANIA. LAKE TANGANYIKA. OCTOBER 2016. Fishermen off the coast of Kazinga. The men standing on the smaller boats are spotters for the larger boats. Once the small fish, mostly Dagaa, is spotted the large boats with nets and many fishermen arrive for the catch. Kazinga was founded in 1957. An old man started it, his name was Anzuruni and nobody was there before him. Kazinga means a place where there is fishing, a certain type of fishing using a jig. They then used small boats with lanterns and tied a net on the boat. As the population increased, bigger boats became necessary to catch more fish. One of their current forms of fishing, with groups and nets and engines, they began in 1980. It is called ring net fishing. Spotters in small boats look mostly for dagaa and there is no set way to do it. At night, they use other boats and mostly catch dagaa and mikabuka and others. The kids on the boat, when they become 4 or 5 they may begin riding along in the boat, helping to scare fish into the net as well as learning from the older men.<br />
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BIO: Raised in the Skagit Valley, a farming community in Washington State, Michael became known for his documentation of the Libyan Revolution and the resulting monograph, Libyan Sugar (2016), which won the 2016 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation First Photo-book award and the 2017 International Center of Photography Infinity Artist Book award. Yo Soy Fidel (2018), his book documenting Cubans observing Fidel Castro’s 2016 funeral procession, was exhibited during the 2018 Recontres d’Arles. Previously a photographer with Magnum Photos, Michael is a contributing photographer at National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Time and other editorials. Commercial clients include Chopard, Land Rover, Nike, Sony, Amnesty International, Hyperice, HBO, Tecno and Al-Jazeera. He is based in Los Angeles. <br />
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WEBSITE: michaelchristopherbrown.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @michaelchristopherbrown
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  • A Great Egret displays during breeding season. Photographed in Florida, this image won the Grand Prize in National Audubon Society's annual photo contest in 2015. <br />
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BIO: Melissa Groo is a wildlife photographer, writer, and conservationist. She’s passionate about conveying the marvels of the natural world to diverse audiences. She believes that photography can be both fine art and a powerful vehicle for storytelling, and considers herself a “wildlife biographer” as much as a wildlife photographer. By capturing and sharing stories about individual wild animals, she hopes to raise awareness and change minds about not only the extrinsic beauty of animals, but also their intrinsic worth.<br />
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Melissa is an Associate Fellow with the International League of Conservation Photographers.She writes a regular column on wildlife photography for Outdoor Photographer magazine, and is a contributing editor to Audubon magazine. Her photographs and articles have been published in numerous magazines including Smithsonian, Audubon, Outdoor Photographer, National Wildlife, Living Bird, and Natural History. <br />
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WEBSITE: melissagroo.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @melissagroo
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  • An illusive band of wild horses roam under a full moon in the American West. It’s believed that horses evolved in North America, then disappeared 12 million years ago following a catastrophic event. Spanish Conquistadors reintroduced them in the 1500s and contemporary herds consist mainly of the descendants of horses. In Native Lakota and Sioux lore, a long relationship with horses predates these Spanish steeds.<br />
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The horse vanished for only the blink of an eye in geologic time. Horse remains unearthed in current North American archaeological digs lie near the bones of wooly mammoths. Horses roamed the prairie with mastodons, the saber-tooth tiger and the American camel. This brave, intrepid beast is the only one of five species to have survived. If the modern horse’s ancestors grazed in ancient North America, herds should claim a rightful place as a native species—rather than feral pests—giving them greater protection under the law. <br />
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In 1900, two million wild horses roamed the largely unfenced American West. Expanding human populations squeezed them onto public lands. A 1971 act of Congress saved the horses from inhumane treatment and slaughter after Velma Johnston, known as “Wild Horse Annie,” organized children to write letters and lobby Congress. Under pressure, Congress set aside land specifically for horses, and charged the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to care for them.<br />
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BIO: Melissa Farlow is a freelance photographer who has extensively worked for National Geographic magazine photographing over 20 projects-many in the American West for stories on public lands, environmental issues and wild horses. <br />
Awarded a Pulitzer Prize while on the staff of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Farlow received a National Headliner Award as well as Pictures of the Year portfolio honors while at the Pittsburgh Press. <br />
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WEBSITE: olsonfarlow.com/portfolio/melissa-farlow<br />
INSTAGRAM: @melissafarlow
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  • The story of the Arabian Oryx is both a sad and virtuous tale about wildlife conservation. The Arabian Oryx was extinct in the wild by the early 1970s and could only be saved by zoos and private reserves. In the 1980s it was reintroduced back in the wild and reverted back to “vulnerable” status on the IUCN Red List in 2011. Today there are estimates that over 1,000 Arabian Oryx room the wild again (while there’s still more of them in captivity). This tale should serve as a warning for how we humans treat other species who are on the brink of extinction, but also as inspiration, that we still have a way to reverse and take a different path to protect and preserve those unique species of our planet.<br />
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BIO: Marion Payr (@ladyvenom) is a travel photographer based in Vienna, Austria. She is better known, however, as @ladyvenom on Instagram, where she provides insights into her travels from Zambia to Jordan and Cape Verde, the Faroe Islands, India and many more. At the centre of her work stands a dedication to the natural world and the power of imagery to conserve these wild and free places for future generations. Marion dedicates much of her career to female empowerment, believing an equal representation of voices & images supports a vision of a united world in the spirit of togetherness. In 2020 she initiated the “Prints For Wildlife” fundraiser which raised over 660,000 dollars within just a month through the outstanding contributions of over 100 wildlife photographers - both industry leaders and young emerging & local talents. Through “Prints for Wildlife” she has learned yet again how powerful photography can be to evoke emotions and ignite actions - what a wonderful way to help shape the world of today and tomorrow.<br />
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WEBSITE: thetravelblog.at<br />
INSTAGRAM: @ladyvenom
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  • Arctic fox, Hudson Bay, Canada. I was barely able to notice this Arctic Fox, perfectly blended with the snowy surroundings. I felt very very lucky because it was my first encounter with this beautiful creature and I was able to spend quite sometimes with her. Sometimes she stared at me opening just one eye but she seemed quite comfortable of my presence. <br />
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BIO: I’m a nature and wildlife photographer specialized in nordic wildlife and landscapes, I was born in 1984 and I'm based in northern Italy. My fine art prints have been exhibited in galleries and my images featured on magazines across Europe. My photographic vision focuses on capturing suggestions and emotions using light and elements such as snow, ice and myst. I try to celebrate the pristine beauty of a landscape or the fleeting encounter with wildlife, with simplicity, giving as much importance to the unseen and is left to the imagination. My approach to nature photography is more artistic and philosophical, than scientific. For me photography is not about a specific environment or animal species but rather about the way those opposite elements such as dark and bright or empty and full spaces, relate to each other creating a subtle yet very strong suggestion. <br />
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WEBSITE: marcoronconi.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @marcoronconi_
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  • Sanjiangyuan is the area across the Tibetan Plateau that translates into “The Source of the Three Rivers” in Chinese – the mighty Yangtze, Yellow, and Mekong rivers. The area is one of China’s most vast wildernesses inhabited by snow leopards and Tibetan nomads and their yaks, and is also the site of China’s first official national park announced in 2016. This photo was taken in Qinghai Province of the holy mountain massif of Jiangjiaduode at around 5700m inside Sanjiangyuan.<br />
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BIO: Kyle Obermann is an environmental photographer and writer based in Chengdu, China. Fluent in Mandarin, his work documents the evolution of China’s nature reserves, national parks, and grassroots environmental groups. His work is in National Geographic, The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, BBC, Chinese National Geography, and more. In his spare time he eats Sichuan food and runs ultra-marathons. <br />
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WEBSITE: kyleobermannphotography.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: kyleobermann
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  • Amboseli Queen<br />
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BIO: Marina Cano, is a Spanish wildlife photographer, European Canon Ambassador, with more than 25 years of photographic experience and international prestige, of which 20 have been dedicated to nature photography, where she has got extraordinary recognition in this field.<br />
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During her career she has published four books: Cabárceno, Drama & Intimidad (both sold out), Inspiration + Naturaleza, and her most recent book Wild Soul.<br />
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Her work has been in the cover of the prestigious National Geographic. In 2015 she has been finalist in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Also, in 2015 she became European Canon Ambassador.<br />
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She leads African safaris, also has been member of juries in national and international competitions, Marina organizes workshops around the world, but mainly in Cabarceno Wildlife Park, in Spain, for professionals and fans of all levels and throughout the year.<br />
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In love with the African continent and committed to its conservation, she collaborates with different associations that protect and preserve threatened species.<br />
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WEBSITE: marinacano.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @marinacano
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  • A mother and her cub sit along the water's edge at Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park Alaska.  The mother was taking way too long to fish so the little one looked back at me after awakening from a nap on mom's back.  <br />
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BIO: Nikon Ambassador Kristi Odom, is an internationally acclaimed photographer and filmmaker. Her work focuses on connecting people emotionally to animals and celebrating those who have a connection to the natural world.  Her accolades include over 60 international photography awards including 2 Nature’s Best Photography awards, which exhibited her images at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.  Her work has appeared either online and/or in print for the following clients: National Geographic, Nikon, Forbes, Rolling Stone, Microsoft and Outside Magazine. <br />
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WEBSITE: kristiodomfineart.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @kristiodom
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  • A birch forest in Finnish Lapland is lit by the early morning summer sun.<br />
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BIO: Kirsten Luce is a photojournalist in New York City. She is a regular contributor to New York Times and National Geographic focusing on a variety of subjects including immigration and wildlife tourism. Her work has been recognized by Pictures of the Year International, The Creative Review Photo Annual, and Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Her work has been exhibited around the world including Visa Pour l’image, The National Gallery of Canada and in the U.S. Senate. <br />
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Website: kirstenluce.com<br />
Instagram: @kirstenluce
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  • A young cub nipping at mom’s heels playfully on the frozen sea ice of the Svalbard Archipelago under the midnight sun. This adorable moment was fleeting, photographed on a brief rest the pair took as they roamed the sapphire landscape in search of food. As heat index continues to rise the summer season in the Arctic has become elongated, making it debatably the hardest season for bears who depend upon sea ice for ambush hunting. Polar Bears are the icon of the Arctic, but are exceptionally vulnerable to the effects climate change is taking on our planet.<br />
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BIO: Keith Ladzinski is a contributing photographer at National Geographic and an Emmy nominated director. His early subjects mirrored his polarized passions, skateboarding in the city and exploring the quiet mountains of Colorado. One, built around an immersed subculture, skating from concrete place to place with friends, trespassing, shooting photos in the dead of night with rushed artificial light setups and running from security guards. The other, alpine starts in the mountains, long approaches alone while patiently hunting for natural light, thoughtful composition and searching for wildlife. It was an unintentional education in two styles of photography and wasn’t long before the two merged, initially into his love for rock climbing. It was here that Keith forged his roots, rising quickly to the top in the world of extreme sports and working tirelessly with the industry’s top athletes, clients and ad agencies.<br />
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Keith lives in Boulder, Colorado with his Wife Dana and son Gray.<br />
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WEBSITE: ladzinski.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @ladzinski
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  • A curious teenage male polar bear investigates the hood of my truck in Kaktovik, an Inupiat village in Arctic Alaska. Every fall, after the community’s annual subsistence hunt of bowhead whales, more and more polar bears arrive to feed off the whale carcass scraps. Climate change has affected the migration and diet of polar bears, which have grown increasingly hungry as melting sea ice impairs their ability to hunt seals on the Arctic Ocean ice sheet. Meanwhile, scavenging so close to town brings its own set of challenges to both polar bears and the people of Kaktovik. With a steady stream of tourists and scientists coming to view and study the polar bears year after year, bears grow increasingly accustomed to interaction with humans—the most dangerous predator on the planet. <br />
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BIO: Katie Orlinsky’s photography tells stories about the everyday lives of people in extreme situations, capturing the intimate moments of daily life behind larger global issues. For the past six years a large portion of her work has focused on climate change, exploring the transforming relationship between people, animals and the land. Katie is a regular contributor for National Geographic and a member of Prime Collective. Her work is also frequently published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian Magazine and Marie Claire, among others. Katie has won numerous awards over the course of her career from institutions such as World Press Photo, The Alexia Foundation, Pictures of the Year International and the Art Director’s Club. She received her BA at Colorado College and a Masters degree in Journalism from Columbia University. In 2018 she was named the Snedden Chair of Journalism at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where she taught photojournalism as a visiting professor. <br />
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WEBSITE: katieorlinskyphoto.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @katieorlinsky
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  • This is Rajan. An Asian elephant that was brought to the Andaman Islands in the 1950s to help extract timber from the jungles. Along with a small group of 10 elephants, he was forced to learn how to swim in the ocean to bring logged trees to nearby boats. When logging became banned in 2002, Rajan was out of a job. He was the last of the group to survive and enjoyed his retirement by swimming in the ocean and foraging in the jungle he once used to log. He died at the age of 66 in 2016. <br />
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BIO: An award winning photographer, Jody MacDonald is no stranger to adventure and exploration in the last untamed corners of the planet. Having spent her formative years in Saudi Arabia before sailing around the world twice over the span of a decade on kiteboarding, sailing, surfing and paragliding expeditions, she has traveled to over 90 countries in search of the unknown. From train hopping in the Sahara to paragliding in the Himalayas at 17,000 ft she is passionate about stepping off the beaten path in pursuit of documenting issues that blend insightful storytelling, big adventure expeditions and social change inspiration in the hopes of promoting the preservation of wild places. She has worked on prominent campaigns with companies such as Disney, HP, Ford and Leica and has had the opportunity to speak on the TEDx stage. Recently, Men’s Journal named her as “One of the 25 Most Adventurous Women in the Past 25 years.” You can see her images in many international publications such as National Geographic, Red Bull, Outside, BBC, Patagonia, Islands, and Men’s Journal among others.<br />
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WEBSITE: jodymacdonaldphotography.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @jodymacdonaldphoto
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  • White lions, are not albino. They are “leucistic”, which means they have a recessive mutation of genes which cause their coats to be white to blonde-rather than tawny. A cub is born white only if both of its parents carry the recessive ‘white’ gene. White lions once roamed wild in the Timbavati area of South Africa. Their presence spans throughout the cultural history of the Sepedi and Tsonga communities who revered the white lion and considered it sacred; ‘divine, and sent from above.’ But, decades of trophy hunting first started by Europeans completely wiped out the white lion wild gene pool. They were also put in zoos, and bred in captivity, where today they are still bred, put in canned hunts, and cute blue eyed cubs put in petting zoos.   Pressure on exploitive captive wildlife places can help close them down—deeply research places with white lions before supporting them; many are not as “conservation oriented” as they state--especially not ones with lion cubs of any age.<br />
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BIO: Karine Aigner is an award winning photographer whose work focuses on the relationships between humans and their natural world.  A fellow with the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP) and a member of Girls Who Click (a non-profit organization offering free photographic workshops to inspire teen girls that they too can have careers as a wildlife photographer), Aigner’s work has been featured in National Geographic Magazine, Audubon Magazine, Nature Conservancy Magazine, WWF and BBC Wildlife to name a few. <br />
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WEBSITE: www.karineaigner.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @kaigner
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  • While visiting Antarctica, I was endlessly amused at the variety and character of the resident penguins. They are such funny little creatures, each with their own peculiarities and personalities. I found so much joy sitting for hours with my camera at either end of the penguin highways (well-trodden pathways they utilize to move between their breeding colonies and the water). On this snowy morning, I noticed one little Gentoo penguin going against the flow of traffic, which spoke to my heart. It’s not always easy to walk to one’s own drum, but to me this little penguin epitomized that spirit. Now, whenever I look back at this memory, I am reminded once again to always follow my dreams no matter what the rest of the colony is doing.<br />
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BIO: During his more than eight years on the National Geographic staff, travel and conservation photographer Jonathan Irish launched and directed the National Geographic Adventures program, bringing travelers and photographers around the world on active adventures.<br />
As a photographer based in Golden, Colorado, he specializes in documenting adventure lifestyles, landscapes, and cultures at home and abroad with a keen eye on highlighting important conservation issues.<br />
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Jonathan is currently a proud staff member at Conservation International.<br />
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WEBSITE: jonathanirish.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @jonathan_irish
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  • Antarctica is the world's coldest desert and one of the harshest environments on the planet. Like most deserts the harshness of the environment creates beautiful sculptural forms.<br />
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BIO: Jon McCormack is a conservation photographer based in California. Jon's work is primarily focussed on the natural world. His primary goal is to show the world what we will lose if we don't reverse climate change. <br />
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WEBSITE: jonmccormack.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @jonmccormackphoto
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  • A critically endangered sumatran orangutan, Pongo abelii, at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, TX.<br />
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BIO: Joel Sartore is a photographer, speaker, author, teacher, conservationist, National Geographic Fellow, and a regular contributor to National Geographic Magazine. His hallmarks are a sense of humor and a Midwestern work ethic.<br />
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Joel specializes in documenting endangered species and landscapes in order to show a world worth saving. He is the founder of The Photo Ark, a multi-year documentary project to save species and habitat.<br />
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Joel has written several books including RARE: Portraits of America’s Endangered Species, Photographing Your Family, Nebraska: Under a Big Red Sky, Let’s Be Reasonable, The Photo Ark and Birds of the Photo Ark. His most recent book, Vanishing is now available wherever books are sold.<br />
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In addition to the work he has done for National Geographic, Joel has contributed to Audubon Magazine, Time, Life, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated and numerous book projects. Joel and his work are the subjects of several national broadcasts including National Geographic’s Explorer, the NBC Nightly News, NPR’s Weekend Edition, an hour-long PBS documentary, At Close Range, and a contributor on the CBS Sunday Morning Show. He is also featured in a three part series on PBS titled: RARE: Creatures of the Photo Ark.<br />
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Joel is always happy to return to home base from his travels around the world. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife Kathy and their three children.<br />
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WEBSITE: joelsartore.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @joelsartore
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  • Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. This image was taken while making the first ascent of a new route on Ulvetanna AKA the Wolf’s Fang’s. From this vantage point, you can of the lower summits or “teeth” in the Wolf’s Jaw.<br />
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BIO: Jimmy Chin is an Academy Award winning filmmaker, National Geographic photographer and mountain sports athlete known for his ability to capture extraordinary imagery and stories while climbing and skiing in extremely high-risk environments. He began his professional career in 1999, and his talents were quickly recognized by top expedition leaders and outdoor brands. In 2002, he secured a breakthrough assignment to be the cinematographer for a high-profile National Geographic–sponsored trek across Tibet’s Chang Tang Plateau. In 2006, he became one of the only people to ski off the summit of Mount Everest. A longtime member of The North Face Athlete Team, he has led dozens of exploratory expeditions and completed first ascents around the globe, working with the world's best adventure athletes.<br />
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Jimmy has garnered numerous photography awards. As a filmmaker, his years of experience in the adventure and extreme sports world enables him to bring an authentic and unique perspective to his storytelling. His 2015 film Meru won the coveted Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was on the 2016 Oscar shortlist for Best Documentary. Jimmy’s latest documentary Free Solo won a BAFTA, 7 Emmy’s and an Academy Award for best Documentary Feature in 2019. Jimmy’s photos have appeared on the cover of National Geographic and The NYT Magazine, among others, and he has directed commercial film projects for clients that include Apple, Chase, Pirelli, Red Bull, The North Face, and RSA Films.<br />
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Jimmy splits his time between New York City and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with his wife, filmmaker Chai Vasarhelyi, their daughter, Marina, and son, James.<br />
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WEBSITE: jimmychin.com/<br />
INSTAGRAM: @jimmychin
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  • Gannets nesting on Boreray in St. Kilda, islands of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Tens of thousands of Gannets nest here in this remote Atlantic archipelago, a double UNESCO World Heritage site for natural heritage and its cultural history. St. Kilda was abandoned in 1930 when the last full-time residents gave up living in these isolated islands. <br />
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Bio: National Geographic photographer Jim Richardson has been a regular contributor to the magazine for 35 years. First recognized for his documentary photography of rural life, Richardson now focuses on environmental and cultural issues, including problems of food and agriculture and their impact on the biosphere, wild and scenic areas of Scotland, and his native Great Plains of North America. As a speaker he lectures internationally on the problem of feeding Planet Earth. Among other awards his National Geographic colleagues named him their Photographer’s Photographer. He was also named Honored Citizen of Cuba, Kansas, the town whose residents he has photographed for forty years. <br />
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WEBSITE: JimRichardsonPhotography.com<br />
Instagram: @JimRichardsonNG
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  • The Milky Way looks like a band of light to our eyes yet the camera picks up more than the eyes can see. The clouds came rolling in and added some interest to the scene. I looked for a bristlecone pine tree to use as a foreground element, and in the background, I had the dense area of the Milky Way. The bristlecone pine trees are considered one of the oldest living organisms on earth.<br />
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BIO: Jennifer Wu is a leading nature and landscape photographer, educator and author, specializing in photographing the night sky. With a BA in Photography, Jennifer has spent over 30 years photographing. She has been named by Canon USA for the Explorer Of Light program. Her images have been published in numerous magazines and books. She is the co-author and photographer of the book, Photography Night Sky: A Field Guide to Shooting After Dark (2014, Mountaineers Books). Jennifer enjoys sharing her passion for night and nature photography through seminars and workshops in locations such as Yosemite, Hawaii, Iceland and Africa. <br />
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WEBSITE: jenniferwu.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @jenwuphoto
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  • A harp seal pup called a white coat seeks shelter from the relentless winds that scour the sea ice nursery in the Gulf of St. Lawrence near Magdalen Island, Quebec. Harp seal pups depend on stable sea ice for survival after they are born in the ice nursery in late February and nursed for 12-15 before their mother abandons them. Recent years of higher temperatures have resulted in unstable sea ice and early break up of the nursery causing mass moratlity of pups. <br />
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BIO: Jennifer Hayes is an aquatic biologist and photojournalist specializing in natural history and ocean environments from the tropics to the polar regions. Jennifer is a contributing photographer, author and speaker for National Geographic Partners and visiting professor of marine ecology, State University of New York.<br />
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Jennifer’s passion for the study and conservation of sharks and sturgeons lead to graduate degrees in zoology and marine biology.  Jennifer is an award-winning photographer, author of numerous publications and books on marine environments and recipient of the Presidential Award for Environmental Education. Her work has been featured on CNN, ABC Good Morning America, Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo Channel and  Disney. She is a trustee of the Shark Research Institute, Explorer Club Fellow, Contributing Editor for Ocean Geographic Magazine and Principal for Elysium Artists for Antarctic, Arctic and Coral Triangle Expeditions. <br />
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WEBSITE: underseaimagesinc.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @jenniferhayesig
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  • A black-browed albatross rests on it’s nest on New Island. Despite the fact that the black-browed albatross has been found to be the most common bird killed by fisheries, this large seabird is the most widespread and common member of its family. <br />
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BIO: Dutch photographer Jasper Doest creates visual stories that explore the relationship between humankind and nature. Having majored in ecology, Doest knows human life depends on everything our planet has to offer, yet he recognizes the unsustainable nature of the current human patterns of consumption. As a true believer in the power of photography to initiate change, Doest is an International League of Conservation Photographers senior fellow and a World Wildlife Fund ambassador. He is also a contributing photographer for National Geographic magazine and his work has received numerous awards, including in World Press Photo and Wildlife Photographer of the Year. <br />
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WEBSITE: jasperdoest.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @jasperdoest
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  • Great grey owl in snow. <br />
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BIO: Jari Peltomäki is a professional wildlife photographer and founder & chairman of the board of Finnature Ltd, Finland’s leading wildlife tour operator. He lives in Oulu, Finland. Bird photography is his passion and his favourite subjects to photograph are owls. <br />
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His photography work has been used worldwide and he has co-published several books of birds and photography, including the highly read Handbook of Bird Photography (together with Markus Varesvuo and Bence Mate) which has been published in Finnish, German, French, English and Chinese! His photographs has been regularly awarded in international competitions: including Wildlife Photographer of the Year several times. <br />
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WEBSITE: jaripeltomaki.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @jari_peltomaki
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  • Two young pumas, Patagonia, Chile.<br />
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BIO: Ingo Arndt was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. From early childhood, he spent every single minute of his spare time outdoors in nature. Soon he realised that photography was a useful tool in environmental protection, so, after finishing school in 1992, Ingo plunged into the adventurous life of a professional photographer. Since then, he has travelled around the globe for extended periods as a freelance wildlife photographer, photographing reports in which he portrays animals and their habitats. In the past few years he has been mainly on assignment for GEO and National Geographic Magazine. Ingo’s photographs are mainly published in international magazines including GEO and National Geographic.<br />
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WEBSITE: ingoarndt.com<br />
INSTAGRAM:@ingoarndtphotography
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  • Persuasion. The shot was taken in Nairobi National Park during our lockdown. The species are Maasai Giraffe, the male giraffe was doing his best to give her attention during courtship, giving me the opportunity to get this beautiful contact between them which is not often seen.<br />
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BIO: Gurcharan Roopra was born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya. The serene environs of his native place left a lasting impact and he became attracted to nature at an early age. After graduating in automotive engineering, Gurcharan lived and worked in the UK for ten years where he sorely missed the space and freedom of the bush. By 2012 he made up his mind and returned to Kenya for good. Return to the bush coincided with him developing an interest in photography. What started off as a hobby took deep roots in his mind and soon his life started revolving around wildlife and nature photography. Time and the bush were great mentors where he developed and honed his skills to become one of the most noted nature photographers in Africa. <br />
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The more time Gurcharan spent in nature, the more passionate he has become towards Mother Earth and the many fellow beings on it. He is committed to the cause of a pristine earth and has devoted his time and energy to many conservation causes in Kenya. He is happy for the fact that his images have come useful for many conservation projects. One thing is for sure, there are many more exciting things to come from this gifted photographer!<br />
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WEBSITE: gurcharanroopra.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @gurcharan
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  • Gentoo Penguin on an ice surfboard in Antarctica.<br />
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BIO: Graeme Green is a photographer and journalist, who’s been travelling the world for 15 years reporting stories and photographing wildlife, people and places for international publications including the BBC, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, National Geographic, Outdoor Photographer, Wanderlust, Digital Photographer, South China Morning Post and more. He’s photographed wildlife in many of the world’s most incredible locations, including Antarctica, Tanzania, Mexico, Venezuela and Malaysia, his work covering diverse species. As well as wildlife and conservation, he has worked on stories ranging from human trafficking to indigenous land rights. Graeme is also founder of the New Big 5 project (www.newbig5.com), an international wildlife conservation initiative supported by +150 photographers, conservationists and wildlife charities, including Dr Jane Goodall, Ami Vitale, Jonathan and Angela Scott, Save The Elephants, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and more.<br />
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WEBSITE: graeme-green.com INSTAGRAM: @graeme.green
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  • Crabeater Seals, Lobodon carcinophaga, view from above while they are resting on the broken ice of the Antarctic peninsula, December 2018.  The biomass of this species is four time higher than the other seal, plus they are the fastest seal in the water.<br />
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BIO: Known for his intimate and aesthetically dramatic compositions, Ledoux's distinctive fine art photography is born out of his passion for the preservation of nature, specifically of the Arctic. His camera lenses are the portals through which he communicates with the world. “My biggest motivation for creating has always been nature, to be able to bring it to the centre of our lives and give those who cannot speak a voice,” he said. Throughout his childhood, he found inspiration through the work of many great photographers such as Paul Nicklen, Sebastiao Salgado, Ami Vitale, and Vincent Munier.<br />
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As a self-taught photographer, he developed his passion until it became strong enough to become a photo reporter in the french military navy. In parallel, he started his own project in Greenland. There is no doubt that the beauty of nature, the search for isolated and wild places took him there.<br />
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Florian’s artworks celebrate the beauty of the frozen continents, its incredible wildlife inhabiting the ice edge, powerful but yet so fragile, and the enormous importance they bear for the survival of our entire planet and all living species, by continually producing exceptional immersive visuals that draw the viewer into his sustainable development journey.<br />
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He is a curious, engaged, and caring individual who has committed his personal and professional life to sustainable environmental protection. Florian’s work is inspiring and motivating and presents an intimacy that showcases a deep relationship with the Polar regions. Each of his photographs tells a story of the fragility of life on this planet.<br />
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WEBSITE: florian-ledoux.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @florian_ledoux_photographer
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  • Wild elephants at the waterhole near Sarara Camp in northern Kenya.<br />
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BIO: Georgina Goodwin is an independent documentary photographer and Canon Ambassador based in Nairobi, Kenya. With over 15 years of experience in all genres of photography Georgina specialises in social issues, women, and the environment. Georgina works regularly for Agence France-Presse AFP and United Nations Agency for Refugees UNHCR, is a contributor to Getty Images, Everyday Climate Change and Everyday Extinction, and a member of WomenPhotograph, and African Photojournalism Database. <br />
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WEBSITE: georginagoodwin.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @GGkenya
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  • A Puma drone, a critical new tool for the Coast Guard, is launched from the Healy’s bow. Competition in the Arctic among countries such as Russia, China, and the U.S. has created a need for more eyes on everything from wildlife populations to ice cover to military activity. Beaufort Sea, USA.<br />
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BIO: Esther Horvath is a Fellow at International League of Conservation Photographers, iLCP, member of The Photo Society and science photographer for Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany.<br />
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Since 2015, Esther has dedicated her photography to the polar regions, especially to the Arctic Ocean, documenting scientific expeditions and behind the scene science stories. She follows the work of multiple science groups that are working to better understand the changing polar regions.<br />
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By documenting the work and life of scientists who deliver important data, Esther hopes to help make a difference in how people understand what actually is occurring, and in collaboration with scientists, help raise public awareness regarding these fragile environments.<br />
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Begun 2016, her main long-term documentary project, ‘IceBird’ follows scientific expeditions researching the changes of the Arctic Ocean sea ice.<br />
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In 2019-2020 she documents MOSAiC expedition in the Central Arctic Ocean, the largest ever Arctic Ocean science expedition.<br />
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Esther’s work has been featured in National Geographic,The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Audubon Magazine and GEO Magazine.<br />
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WEBSITE: estherhorvath.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @estherhorvath
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  • BIO: Drew Rush is a wildlife and natural history photographer with a passion for following wildlife in national parks around the world. Before embarking on a career in photography, Drew spent ten years guiding on the Snake River and taking people into the heart of Yellowstone National Park. His photography has appeared in numerous international publications and books, such as National Parks magazine and National Geographic: Complete Photography. <br />
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Drew has a long history of working in and teaching about the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and Grand Tetons region on several long-term photographic projects for National Geographic magazine. He has also worked on collaborative projects studying long-distance lynx migration through Alaska with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as well as monitoring wolf populations with the U.S. National Park Service. Drew is a 2014 National Geographic grant recipient, and his work is represented by the National Geographic Image Collection. <br />
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Website: drewrush.com<br />
Instagram: @drewtrush
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  • The stinger of a scorpion is lit by an ultraviolet light and a red headlamp as Vietnamese and international herpetologists search in the Central Highlands of Vietnam for venomous scorpions, snakes, snails, frogs, and spiders.<br />
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WEBSITE: davidguttenfelder.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @dguttenfelder
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  • Common Octopus, Scientific Name: Octopus vulgaris, Size: 3.5 inches mantle length, February 4, 2015, Big Pine Key, Florida. BIO: David Liittschwager is a freelance photographer who, after working with Richard Avedon in New York in the eighties, left advertising to focus on portraiture and natural history. Now a regular contributor to National Geographic Liittschwager has produced a number of books. Among his many honors is a World Press Photo Award in 2008 for his article “Marine Microfauna” in National Geographic. <br />
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WEBSITE: liittschwager.com INSTAGRAM: @davidliittschwager
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  • Fishing in Indiana.<br />
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BIO: Daniella Zalcman is a Vietnamese-American documentary photographer based between Paris and New York. She is a multiple grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a fellow with the International Women's Media Foundation, a National Geographic Society grantee, and the founder of Women Photograph, a non-profit working to elevate the voices of women and non-binary visual journalists.<br />
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Her work tends to focus on the legacies of western colonization, from the rise of homophobia in East Africa to the forced assimilation education of indigenous children in North America. Her ongoing project, Signs of Your Identity, is the recipient of the 2017 Arnold Newman Prize, a 2017 Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award, the 2016 FotoEvidence Book Award, the 2016 Magnum Foundation's Inge Morath Award, and part of Open Society Foundation's Moving Walls 24.<br />
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Daniella regularly lectures at high schools and universities, and is available for assignments and speaking engagements internationally. She is a member of the board of trustees of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund and the board of directors of the ACOS Alliance. She graduated from Columbia University with a degree in architecture in 2009.<br />
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WEBSITE: dan.iella.net<br />
INSTAGRAM: @dzalcman
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  • Chinstrap and gentoo penguins were resting on a bergy bit near Danco Island, Antarctica. They carefully gauged my presence in the water as a potential predator. Once they decided I was harmless they lept into the water and circled their tiny island of ice more curious than cautious. <br />
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BIO: David Doubilet is a contributing photographer and author for National Geographic Magazine producing over 75 feature publications ranging from the equator to beneath the polar ice. David enters the sea as a journalist, artist and explorer to document the beauty and devastation in our oceans. <br />
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Doubilet has spent over 27,000 hours in the sea capturing a hidden world beneath the surface since he first put his Brownie Hawkeye camera in a rubber anesthesiologist’s bag at the age of twelve. Doubilet believes that photography has the power to educate, honor, humiliate, illuminate and influence change. <br />
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David is honored to be the recipient of many esteemed photographic awards, The Academy of Achievement Award, The Lennart Nilsson Award and The Explorers Club Lowell Thomas Award. He was named a Contributing Photographer-in-Residence at the National Geographic, a NOGI Fellow and is a member of both the Royal Photographic Society, International Diving Hall of Fame and a founding member of the International League of Conservation Photographers. David Doubilet is honored to be a Rolex Testimonee since 1994.<br />
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WEBSITE: underseaimagesinc.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @DavidDoubilet
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  • When on assignment, everything we do is determined by the light conditions. Twenty-four hours of daylight at the height of the Antarctic summer in January means the best light for photography happens in the middle of the night, leaving only a couple hours to rest between sunset and sunrise. Being in the right place at the right time is a balancing act between prior knowledge and advance planning.<br />
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After several days of monitoring advance forecasts, we realized we would have a window of only a couple of days to get good light at the “iceberg graveyard” in Pleneau Bay. We were lucky, however, and we nailed it! Cruising among the icebergs in perfect light was simply amazing.<br />
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In this particular instance, I chose to use an iceberg as foreground. I took advantage of the iceberg’s complementary colours, to lead the eye into the beautiful sunrise reflection with the ice field in the background.<br />
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BIO: Daisy Gilardini is a conservation photographer who specializes in the Polar Regions, with a particular emphasis on Antarctic wildlife and North American bears. She is from Switzerland originally, and is now based in Vancouver, Canada. <br />
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WEBSITE: daisygilardini.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @daisygilardini
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BIO: Chiara Goia is a photographer whose work is spanning from documentary editorial to commercial, while always keeping focus on her personal work and artistic research.<br />
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Her clients include publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Vanity Fair, GEO, Time, among many others.<br />
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WEBSITE: chiaragoia.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @chiaragoia
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  • A female Sumatran Orangutan wakes, emerges from her overnight nest she’d built and begins to feed on leaves.The dawn light feeds through the dense jungle canopy, lighting her and the surrounding jungle. Taken in the jungles of Northern Sumatran, Indonesia. . <br />
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BIO: Craig’s photography covering the plight of the Sumatran Orangutans has been published around the world on the BBC News, BBC Wildlife Magazine and National Geographic magazine. He’s also appeared for Nat Geo WILD discussing Sumatra as part of the “Paradise Islands & Photo Ark” Nat Geo series.  <br />
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He’s spoken at the Green Party Conference about palm oil and it’s effects that he’s seen firsthand.  Spoken at the Natural History Museum in London twice  on behalf of those critically endangered Sumatran Orangutans bringing their plight to the public’s attention.<br />
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He works tirelessly to bring about a more ethical approach to wildlife photography and has worked hard to bring this issue to the surface on the Kay Burley Show on Sky News and the Guardian.  <br />
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He doesn’t enter photography competitions and so can't claim to be “award winning” <br />
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His images represent an event that occurred in the wild something that he witnessed and recorded with his camera. His skill lies in interpreting and presenting this in a way that invokes beauty, mood and emotion with each moment captured. <br />
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As an ex soldier he tries to help those injured by war or previous trauma. Showing the beauty of the natural world and how it can heal and add such a lot to the persons life. He’s done many podcasts talking about this in the hope his own experiences will help others. Modern Mann - Nature / Nurture podcast being just one.<br />
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He has never forgotten his roots , his late mother for instilling the beauty of nature into him and his childhood love of wildlife that is behind his work today.<br />
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Website: craigjoneswildlifephotography.co.uk<br />
Instagram: @craigjoneswildl
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  • Bison- National Elk Refuge, Jackson, WY.<br />
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Charlie Hamilton James is a National Geographic Magazine photographer specialising in issues concerning conservation, natural history and anthropology<br />
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WEBSITE: charliehamiltonjames.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @chamiltonjames
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  • Caption: Red Marsh, Panjin China AUG 2012<br />
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BIO: Camille Seaman was born in 1969 to a Native American (Shinnecock tribe) father and African American mother. She graduated in 1992 from the State University of New York at Purchase, where she studied photography with Jan Groover and John Cohen. Her photographs have been published in National Geographic Magazine, Italian Geo, German GEO, TIME, The New York Times Sunday magazine, Newsweek, Outside, Zeit Wissen, Men's Journal, Seed, Camera Arts, Issues, PDN, and American Photo among many others, She frequently leads photographic workshops. Her photographs have received many awards including: a National Geographic Award, 2006; and the Critical Mass Top Monograph Award, 2007. She is a TED Senior Fellow, Stanford Knight Fellow as well as a Cinereach Filmmaker in Residence Fellow.<br />
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WEBSITE: camilleseaman.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @camilleseaman
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  • Female leopard using a balanite tree as a vantage point to scout for food or danger in the vicinity. Taken in Masai Mara, Kenya<br />
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BIO: Caroline Muchekehu discovered her love for photography at an early age, when she received her first camera while in high school. Her love of nature began with birds, and she spent a lot of time outdoors, bird watching.  <br />
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After pursuing a liberal arts degree at The College of Wooster, she began working in the corporate world, and took a break from photography. She returned to Kenya in 2010 with a basic DSLR camera, and started looking for opportunities to use it, and found Kenya to be the perfect place to do this.<br />
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She now seeks any opportunity to be out in the wild, finding inspiration in her encounters with animals, and spending time to learn as much as she can about the behavior of animals through her observations. Her camera of choice is a Canon 7D Mark ii, combined with a Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM Lens.<br />
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By sharing her images and her experiences, Caroline hopes to highlight the majesty and beauty of these magnificent animals with as many people as possible, bringing these amazing creatures closer to the viewer, and hopefully inspiring her audience to go out and experience the wild for themselves. <br />
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WEBSITE: seemuchphotography.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @seemuchphotography
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  • Tsavo, Kenya: While photographing some of the last great Tuskers in Kenya, I would regularly experience a group of slightly younger bull elephants who acted as a bodyguard unit to the largest tuskers. They would literally place themselves between me and the revered Tusker, essentially offering themselves as protection for him in the event that I meant to do him harm. I had no idea elephants did this until I saw it happening for myself. Poaching against elephants for their ivory has been so great that this is a system certain elephant groups have devised to protect the elephants who represent the best of themselves, the greatest DNA and knowledge. This only serves to remind us of how very human elephants can be and how much we have in common. <br />
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BIO: Brent Stirton is a senior correspondent for Getty Images and a National Geographic Fellow. He specializes in issues relating to man's relationship to the natural world in the hope of highlighting those doing great work that deserves to be supported. <br />
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WEBSITE: brentstirton.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @brentstirton
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  • A female coastal grey wolf traverses a section of mudflat during a morning patrol of her territory on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. This wolf is now dead. She was shot by a resident from the nearby town who claimed he was protecting the town's pets. If we are lucky enough to live in wild places then we must accept that this privilege comes with the responsibility to live alongside our wild residents. Sadly, there were no consequences to this shooting. Had it been a lion, or a tiger, or even a grizzly bear, there would have been mass outrage. Because it was a wolf, nothing happened. I hope that this image helps people fall in love with coastal wolves so that this horrible situation is not repeated. <br />
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BIO: Bertie Gregory is a 26-year-old British wildlife filmmaker. Previously named a National Geographic Young Explorer and The Youth Outdoor Photographer of the year, Bertie's goal is to find stories that get people to fall in love with the natural world. He wants his films to convey the message that looking after wildlife is more than just a nice thing to do—it's crucial to all our futures. He has since produced and hosted 5 projects for National Geographic including three seasons of ‘Wild_Life’, Nat Geo’s first ever online wildlife series. The television adaptation of this series won best Television host at the Jackson Wild Awards 2019- Nature film’s equivalent of the Oscars. He currently splits his time between shooting behind the camera as a cinematographer for the BBC's Planet Earth series and hosting a new show for National Geographic. Bertie recently won a BAFTA for his cinematography in the latest BBC series he worked on, ‘Seven Worlds, One Planet’. <br />
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WEBSITE: bertiegregory.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @bertiegregory
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  • Elephant herd returning from the marsh in Amboseli, crossing the dry country in search of food.<br />
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BIO: Beverly Joubert is an intuitive photographer rather than a technical one, a person who lives and breathes Africa and its wild open places filled with big cats and elephants, racing zebras or bubbling lava flows. National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, just one of 14 people selected to represent this level of professionalism in the Society, she has specialized in African photography for nearly 30 years, with images in a dozen or more National Geographic Magazines, in 10 books, and thousands of articles around the world.<br />
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Some would say that she and husband Dereck Joubert, are among the most famous wildlife filmmakers in the world, and in this pursuit she co-producers with Dereck and records sound. An equally important passion for Beverly is that of creating an image that tells a complete story in one instant, one frame; a story that is both a celebration of the sheer beauty and wonder of wildlife and also a window into its future.<br />
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WEBSITE: beverlyjoubert.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @beverlyjoubert
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  • Home Planet in the Cosmic Ocean. The Milky Way gleams in all its splendor as seen a mountain-top in Chile. The bright core of the Galaxy and the pale-blue zodiacal light (sunlight reflection from asteroid dust in the Solar System plane) appear through the fading dusk color and above cloud covered shores of the Pacific Ocean. A bright satellite flare in the sky.<br />
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BIO: Babak Tafreshi is an Iranian-American photographer for National Geographic, the founder of The World at Night (TWAN) program, and a science journalist who aims to reconnect people with the night sky and the values of protecting natural night environments. <br />
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WEBSITE: babaktafreshi.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @babaktafreshi
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  • Kayapo Menorony-re or Warrior, Kapoto Village, Para, Brazil. Similar to the East African Maasai and Samburu tribes, there is a warrior age-grade in Kayapo culture. These handsome, energetic young men do everything together--paint each other, dance and sing, hunt and eat. They are free spirits able to come and go as they please. <br />
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BIO: Over the course of his remarkable career, photographer Art Wolfe has worked on every continent and in hundreds of locations and his goal has always been to win support for conservation issues by “focusing on what’s beautiful on the Earth.” His photographs are recognized throughout the world for their mastery of color, composition and perspective. Wolfe's photographic mission is multi-faceted: art, wildlife advocacy, education, and journalism inform his work.<br />
Hailed as “the most prolific and sensitive recorder of a rapidly vanishing natural world,” Wolfe’s work has appeared in the world’s top magazines, such as National Geographic, Smithsonian, Audubon, GEO, Stern, and Terre Sauvage.<br />
In May 2007 Wolfe made his public television debut with the Canon- and Microsoft-sponsored, award-winning television series Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge, an intimate and upbeat series that offers insights on nature, culture, and the realm of digital photography. He was also featured in the 2015 Canon Australia/National Geographic Channel production Tales by Light, now streaming globally on Netflix.<br />
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Since his first publication in 1978, Wolfe has released over 100 books in all editions; 2014 saw the release of his magnum opus Earth Is My Witness; this mega project features Wolfe's favorite photos taken so far and garnered international accolades and awards. Other award-winning titles include Human Canvas, Trees Between Earth and Heaven, and Wild Elephants.<br />
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WEBSITE: artwolfe.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @artwolfe
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  • A lone cheetah pauses to listen as it hunts antelope in the Serengeti plains of Tanzania.<br />
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BIO: One of the first women photographers to work for National Geographic, Annie Griffiths has photographed in nearly 150 countries during her illustrious career.  She has worked on dozens of magazine and book projects for National Geographic, including stories on Lawrence of Arabia, Galilee, Petra, Sydney, and Jerusalem.<br />
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In addition to her magazine work, Griffiths is deeply committed to photographing for aid organizations around the world.  She is the Founder and Executive Director of Ripple Effect Images, a collective of photographers who document aid programs that are empowering women and girls in the developing world. In just six years, Ripple’s work has helped 26 non-profits raise over ten million dollars.<br />
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WEBSITE: anniegriffiths.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @anniegriffithsphotography
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  • In 2014 I visited Kidepo Valley National Park, a remote reserve in the North of Uganda that borders South Sudan and Kenya. I hadn’t been in the Valley long when I met the resident male lion, a handsome chap known as “Spartacus”. It was late in the afternoon and the light was beautiful, but he was lying down in long grass and I couldn’t get a clear shot. Over to my right was a beautiful kopje (a small hill) and I daydreamed of the incredible shot I could get if he were on top of it. Well, he must have heard my thoughts because the next thing I knew, he was up and heading in that direction. I willed him to keep going and I was pinching myself as he started to climb. He sat himself down exactly where I had hoped and then looked at me with his regal gaze. I couldn’t believe my luck! It is so rare that a wild animal actually does what you want it to! In front of me was a scene straight out of the Lion King…<br />
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BIO: Will Burrard-Lucas is a British wildlife photographer. In 2009, he created the BeetleCam, a remote-control camera buggy that enables him to take close-up photographs of wildlife. He later created a high- quality camera trap system for photographing rare and nocturnal animals and is the founder of Camtraptions, a company specializing in products for remote and camera trap photography.<br />
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An advocate for wildlife conservation, Burrard-Lucas works with various conservation non-governmental organizations including the World Wildlife Fund, African Parks, the Tsavo Trust in Kenya, and the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme.  <br />
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Burrard-Lucas’ images of a black leopard in Kenya made headlines around the world in 2019 when they accompanied the first scientifically documented sighting of the rare animal in Kenya in over 100 years. A book based on his experience, The Black Leopard, My Quest to Photograph One of Africa’s Most Elusive Animals, will be published in Spring 2021.<br />
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WEBSITE: willbl.com<br />
CAPTIONS: @willbl
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  • Orangutan is considered as one of the smartest animals in the world. Having 97% human DNA, they're known to be able to use tools and imitate human behavior. This young Orangutan used a Taro Leaf to protect herself from the rain. However, despite their intelligence, Orangutan is facing the grave danger of extinction. Around 7,000 Orangutans are killed every year. Half of their population have vanished in the last 15 years.<br />
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This is because people and companies keep destroying rainforests to plant more Crude Palm Oil in order to make more profits by selling cheaper products to customers. Illegal poaching, in which people deliberately kill the mother to take the baby away and sell them for profits in black market also further accelerate their decline in population. Given that Orangutans only produce an offspring once every 9 years and the rate of current decline in population, we might not see them again forever in the next 15 to 20 years.<br />
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BIO: Andrew Suryono is an award-winning, Fine Art Travel Photographer. He is a National Geographic Published Photographer and Sony Alpha Guru. Combining his photography skill with his professional background in engineering and business, he helps sustainable businesses and government organizations worldwide to create a positive impact for our planet. <br />
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WEBSITE: andrewsuryono.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @andrewsuryono
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  • Dallol, is the "Hill of the Spirits" for the Afar people. Is a land of geysers, crystal formations and sulphurous springs. Dallol is located in the Danakil Depression in a remote area subject to the highest average temperatures on the planet. The term Dallol was coined by the Afar people and means dissolution or disintegration, describing a landscape made up of acid ponds. <br />
In this picture a portrait of Alì Arata, 23 years old. Alì lives in Hamed Ela, and for 10 years has been working as a tourist guide accompanying travelers to Dallol and the volcano Erta Ale. © Andrea Frazzetta<br />
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Located in the northern part of the Afar’s Triangle, the vast Danakil depression is the place where the constantly expanding of three tectonic plates join together, close to the border area among Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. <br />
This land made of fire, salt and lava close to the Rift Valley – the long breach that bisects the continent – is a ghost ocean. It is from the retreat of the sea, evaporated twenty thousand years ago, that the Danakil has gained its peculiarity: to be a spread of evaporitic rocks that gives rise to the Great Plain of Salt – a desert which stretches for about 600 kilometers. <br />
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BIO: Andrea Frazzetta is a documentary photographer, contributor to The New York Times Magazine and National Geographic.
He was born in Lecce, in Southern Italy. He grew up in Milan, where he studied art and architecture. One week after his graduation, he took a flight for the Amazon Forest, following a small NGO, where he realized his first photo story. Since then, he decided to devote himself entirely to photography using it as a mean for discovery and story-telling. He started traveling and worked on several photo reportages, mainly in Africa, South America and in the Mediterranean area. He has worked on personal projects and assignments in more than 60 countries around the world. <br />
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WEBSITE: andreafrazzetta.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @andrea_frazzetta
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  • An Anna's hummingbird hovers below a makeshift fog machine used by scientists to study the airflow around its wings. <br />
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BIO: Anand Varma grew up exploring the woods near his childhood home in Atlanta, Georgia. As a teenager, he picked up his dad’s old camera on a whim and found that he could use it to feed his curiosity about the natural world—and to share his discoveries with others. Anand studied integrative biology from UC Berkeley and now uses photography to share the story behind the science on everything from honeybee health to hummingbird biomechanics. He works to reveal the invisible details around us with the goal of sparking a sense of wonder about our world. Since receiving an Early Career Grant from National Geographic in 2010, he has photographed numerous stories for National Geographic Magazine. His recognitions include National Geographic Emerging Explorer, Media Innovation Fellow, Civic Science Fellow, and World Press Award for best nature story. Anand lives in Berkeley, California.<br />
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WEBSITE: varmaphoto.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @anandavarma
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  • Jokulsarlon, Glacier Lagoon in Skaftafell National Park, Iceland<br />
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BIO: Alison Wright, an award-winning documentary photographer, has traveled to 150 countries photographing disappearing cultures and covering issues concerning the human condition. She is a recipient of the Dorothea Lange Award in Documentary Photography for her work with child labor in Asia, a two-time winner of the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award, and was named a National Geographic Traveler of the Year as "someone who travels with a sense of passion and purpose." Alison has published ten books including her memoir, “Learning to Breathe,” chronicling her survival of a devastating bus accident while on assignment in Laos. <br />
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Alison’s experience working in post-disaster/conflict areas inspired her to establish a foundation called Faces of Hope (facesofhope.org); a non-profit that globally supports women and children’s rights by creating visual awareness and donating directly to grass-roots organizations that help sustain them through education and healthcare. <br />
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WEBSITE: Alisonwright.com <br />
INSTAGRAM: @alisonwrightphoto
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  • This image was taken at San Pedro Martir Island and is part of a IUCN assignment. This island is part of the IUCN green list,  areas that are certified as being effectively managed and fairly governed, with long-term positive impact on people and nature<br />
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The biosphere reserve Island San Pedro Martir has great scientific relevance for what is considered a natural laboratory of adaptation and evolution. It is one of the best preserved sites of the Gulf of California.<br />
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Sea lions are among the most fascinating creatures in all of the world’s oceans. These social marine mammals are found in climates ranging from subarctic to tropical and are often seen swimming in the waters of San Pedro. They are known for their playful behavior, agility in the water, cunning intelligence, and their distinct adorable appearance.<br />
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BIO: Alejandro Prieto is a professional Wildlife and Underwater Photographer from Guadalajara, México. His work is mainly focused on Conservation Photography, he is currently working together with Alianza Jaguar AC a foundation dedicated to Jaguar conservation.<br />
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WEBSITE: alejandroprietophotography.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @alejandroprietophoto
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  • Sunset on Denali -"the High One" or "Great One" in the Koyukon Athabaskan language. This image shows Pioneer Ridge from the road near Wonder Lake. Denali is the tallest land-based mountain on Earth—with a vertical rise of about 18,000 feet, as well as the highest peak in North America—with a summit of 20,310 feet.  Like most big peaks in the world "The Great One" is bigger than life, a kind of transcendent thing, beyond time. I consider Denali to be one of our great American Cathedrals.<br />
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BIO: Aaron Huey is a National Geographic photographer and Explorer, a Stanford d.School Fellow, and Founder + Chief Creative of Amplifier.org. <br />
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As a photographer Huey has created over 30 stories for the National Geographic magazines including several cover stories.   As a Stanford Knight Fellow and then as one of the first d.School Media Experiments Fellows, Huey focused on using the human centered design process in both the analog and digital world to evolve his storytelling.  That resulted in many projects beyond traditional photography, including the evolution of his art and advocacy non-profit Amplifier, where he created the global art phenomenon called "We The People" with a small team now based in South Seattle. <br />
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Huey’s Bear Ears Virtual Museum VR experience, won the Webby for best VR Interactive Design in 2019 and parts of that project will become Pre-Colonial History and Cultural Heritage lessons in AR and VR for K-12 classrooms across the US in 2021. <br />
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Huey is currently working on a set of new AR experiments, and the revival of the Wide Awakes Movement.  But, perhaps most importantly, Huey was named the 3rd coolest Dad in America by Fatherly.com after Lebron James and Kelly Slater. <br />
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WEBSITE: helloprototype.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @argonautphoto
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  • Crabeater seals rest on an iceberg at Port Charcot, Antarctica.<br />
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Bio: Acacia Johnson is a photographer from Alaska, focused on human relationships to the natural world. Her work is housed in collections including the Anchorage Museum and the Smithsonian Museum of American History, and has been featured by numerous publications, including National Geographic, TIME, and NPR.<br />
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WEBSITE: acaciajohnson.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @acacia.johnson
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  • An adult stag is partially obscured during a ferocious snowstorm Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK.<br />
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BIO: Andy is a feature contributor to National Geographic magazine and is one of Europe’s most awarded photographers. With more than 50 individual awards featuring more than 100 awarded images his images consistently feature in all of the world’s most prestigious wildlife photographic competitions. In 2016 he was named the overall winner of Bird Photographer of the Year, winning two categories in the process, and he is also the most successful photographer in the history of the British Wildlife Photography Awards with 4 category wins and 27 individual awards featuring 36 images. He has also been awarded 3 times in Wildlife Photographer of the Year and 3 times in European Wildlife Photographer of the Year whilst in 2012 he was named Nature Photojournalist of the Year for a portfolio of 12 gannet images captured whilst working on assignment for National Geographic magazine.<br />
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Andy works exclusively with animals and birds that are wild and free and is renowned for his uncompromisingly ethical approach, abhorring those that put their pursuit of images before the welfare of their subjects. He is a vegan and an ardent supporter of extending rights to all animals, not just the ones with which we share our homes, and his frequently outspoken views on photography ethics, conservation, animal rights and environmental issues can be found in his regular Opinion piece in Outdoor Photography magazine. He has appeared numerous times on television, on shows such as The One Show, BBC News, The Victoria Derbyshire Show, Wild about Wales and a memorable piece on Countryfile where he attempted to teach comedian Jo Brand how to capture images of wildlife. He has also appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live and has appeared many times on BBC Radio Derby.<br />
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He lives in Derbyshire with his wife Claire and their dog.<br />
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WEBSITE: andrewparkinson.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @andyparkinsonphoto
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  • Daisy Mae, a miniature Vietnamese potbellied pig pictured lounging in her home in West St. Paul, Minnesota. From Vincent J. Musi's story, "Taming the Wild," in the March 2011 National Geographic Magazine.<br />
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BIO: Vincent J. Musi has been making photographs for as long as he can remember. His pictures and stories are often featured in National Geographic Magazine where his work has appeared on the cover 11 times. Vince likes to collaborate with animals, everything from rats and birds to cats and dogs. His best-selling book The Year of the Dogs features the story of a farting bulldog and other interesting canines.<br />
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WEBSITE: vincentjmusi.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @vincentjmusi
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  • Dark clouds, near distance in shade and the elephants in the sunshine, the vast African plains & open sky, dwarfiing everything to ant size.<br />
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BIO: Usha Harish is a wildlife photographer, safari planner based out of East Africa for the past 12 years, a chartered accountant turned photographer, an avid traveler, loves wildlife and nature, likes to capture the emotions of animals in their natural habitat. She wants to showcase the wilderness around and spread awareness to the world about conservation through her photographic work. Beautiful colors, animal patterns and animal behavior intrigue her as much as the act of translating those into images using the camera. She presently lives in Nairobi, Kenya. Usha conducts photo safaris and also does bookings for all nature lovers who wants to explore East Africa.<br />
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WEBSITE: ushaharish.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: usha.harish.photography
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  • The bond between mother and child is strong among humpback whales. Here, a young male calf balances curiosity with caution, peering out from the protective embrace of his mother, just moments before he swam out to play.<br />
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BIO: Tony Wu's lifelong association with the sea started when he was a child. A crab pinched his toe, and it was love at first ouch. Now that he's (somewhat) grown up, Tony devotes most of his time to researching and documenting rarely seen marine animals and environments. Tony owns more pairs of fins than he does shoes.<br />
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WEBSITE: tony-wu.com<br />
INSTAGRAM: @tonywu98
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