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Carolina Museum of Natural History; the
London Zoo; the Hong Kong Museum; the
Waikiki, Vancouver, Monterey Bay and John
G. Shedd Aquariums; the Maui Ocean
Center and the Aquarium of the Americas.
Stan Jirman
Stan Jirman is a nature photographer
focusing on world travel documentary and
night scenery. His work presents pristine
images of nature undisturbed, as well as
studies of the human impact on the envi-
ronment.
Michael Mauro
A Colorado native, Michael Mauro has
been a wildlife/nature photographer for
the past 15 years, traveling from Alaska to
Antarctica in his quest to capture the natu-
ral world on film. To ensure a high level of
quality and authenticity, all of Michael’s
images are taken in the wild.
Darren Maybury
Darren specializes in freelance Motorsport
photography but admits to a passion for
wildlife and travel photography. He uses
Fuji Provia 100F and 400F film, but he
plans to work only in digital images in the
near future.
David Sanger
David Sanger is an outdoor and travel pho-
tographer based in the San Francisco Bay
Area, as well as the award-winning pho-
tographer of the book San Francisco Bay:
Portrait of an Estuary by UC Press.
Joseph Sohm
American history teacher turned producer-
photographer-writer, Joseph Sohm is both
student and teacher of America’s past,
present and future. His ongoing multime-
dia project Visions of America™ is dedicat-
ed to capturing the American spirit on
film, in music and in words. For more than
20 years, he has worked as a photographer,
producer and writer. His images have been
published around the world in magazines
such as National Geographic, Newsweek
and Time; on book covers by Simon &
Schuster, McGraw Hill, Macmillan and
Prentice-Hall; on CD covers by Warner
Brothers, Atlantic Records and CBS/Sony;
and in advertising for clients such as IBM,
AOL, Kodak, Delta Airlines, Microsoft, MCI,
General Electric, Pepsi, Sony, Ford and
Toshiba.
Vince Streano
Vince Streano has built a library of high-
quality stock photography on a wide vari-
ety of subjects. As half of Streano/Havens,
he has been photographing the subjects
he loves for 25 years, priding himself on
not shooting stock to someone else’s
ideas, but instead from this own creative
vision.“Photography for me has been a
way to tell stories. Whether it is how a
hummingbird feeds its young, or how the
Lakota Indians on the Pine Ridge
Reservation survive in some of the harsh-
est climates in this country, photography
gives me the opportunity to tell my story
to others. Many of my pictures are born
from my own curiosity.”
Geoff Tompkinson
Geoff Tompkinson has been working in
photography since leaving university,
where he studied marine zoology. He cre-
ates still and moving images for advertis-
ing and corporate clients all around the
world and currently specializes in time-
lapse and CGI movie clips for television.
Geoff has won numerous awards, includ-
ing international gold medals for under-
water photography and a World Press
Photo award for magazine reportage. He
continues to be inspired by visuality, com-
position and form.
Ingrid Visser
Ingrid Visser was born in Wellington, New
Zealand, in 1966 — a Pisces, of course! —
to Dutch immigrant parents. Ingrid’s love
affair with the sea began very early — her
family sailed around the world on a 57-
foot yacht (steel ketch), living on the boat
for four-and-a-half years and covering
52,000 nautical miles. She trained at
Massey University as a vet and holds
degrees in zoology and marine biology.
She has also completed a PhD on orca. A
surf lifesaver and dive instructor who holds
a captain’s ticket for working on ships, she
has visited 60 countries and all the conti-
nents, working in the Arctic, the Antarctic,
and most places in between.
James D. Watt
James Watt has been scuba diving all over
the world for more than 30 years, starting
at the age of 14. In 1982 Jim began to pho-
tograph the marine environment, and
today he is one of the world’s most suc-
cessful marine wildlife photographers, hav-
ing captured images of everything from
right whales in Patagonia to great white
sharks in the waters of Australia. His credit
list is long, including more than 300 books
and magazines worldwide. Jim lives on the
Big Island of Hawaii and is dedicated to
the celebration and preservation of life on
Earth and within its many oceans.
Bryan and Cherry Alexander
More than 100,000 images, mostly of the
Polar regions, make up the unique collec-
tion of Bryan and Cherry Alexander. The pair
makes frequent visits to Siberia, Greenland,
Alaska, Canada, Arctic Scandinavia and
Antarctica, with a focus on Indigenous
People of the North — the way they live,
their land and the wildlife they share it with.
It was on one of these icebreaker trips to
Antarctica, documenting the discovery of
the Polar regions by tourism, that Cherry got
the opportunity to photograph penguins
on a blue iceberg. One of these pictures
won her the BBC Wildlife Photographer of
the Year in 1995.
Brian Bailey
An ex–Yosemite climbing bum, Brian
currently lives in Carbondale, CO, a small
mountain town outside Aspen. He special-
izes in outdoor/adventure sports and
lifestyle images.
Mark Conlin
Mark Conlin holds a degree in marine biolo-
gy from UC Santa Barbara. Since 1987, he
has worked as part of today’s premier
underwater wildlife filmmaking team,
Howard Hall Productions. He has worked on
over 20 underwater films, including three
IMAX productions. Mark’s work over the
past 14 years with HHP, along with his back-
ground in biology, has helped him develop
an exciting and extensive still photography
collection that is as beautiful as it is unique.
Mark’s still photographs have appeared in
Asian Geographic, Audubon, BBC Wildlife,
Discover, Esquire, Fathoms, Men’s Journal,
National & International Wildlife, Natural
History, National Geographic Traveler,
National Geographic World & Books, Nature’s
Best, Ocean Realm, Ranger Rick and
Smithsonian.
John Conrad
A nature and wildlife photographer for over
30 years, John has been published in many
nature and wildlife publications worldwide,
including National Wildlife Magazine, Wild
Bird, Audubon and Nature’s Best. In addition,
several of John’s photographs have been
used in commercial advertisements in finan-
cial publications such as the Wall Street
Journal, Barron’s and Business Week. John is a
Category Winner in the 2003 Nature’s Best
photo competition in the Animal Antics cat-
egory. Prior award credits include Eastman
Kodak and National Wildlife magazine (one
grand prize and two first place awards), and
an honorable mention in the BBC competi-
tion.
Jay Dickman
Jay has worked in the photojournalism field
for 25 years, covering such diverse subjects
as the war in El Salvador , the 40th anniver-
sary of the bombing of Hiroshima, the
Olympics and Shirley Maclaine. He spent
three months living in a Stone Age village in
Papua New Guinea for National Geographic,
and flew around the world on assignment
for EDS Corporation. His client list includes
National Geographic, Nike, Marlboro and the
NFL. Publications include LIFE, Time, Fortune,
Forbes, Sports Illustrated, GEO, and more.
Terry W. Eggers
A photographer for 13 years, Terry Eggers
has also worked as a leader for International
Wildlife Adventures over the past four years,
leading tours into Yellowstone in the winter
and tours to see the Polar Bears on Hudson
Bay in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Terry’s
work is represented worldwide by The Stock
Market photo agency in New York, and he is
a member of the North American Nature
Photographers Association. His work has
appeared in Audubon, Sierra Club and Nature
Conservancy, as well as in books and calen-
dars from Teldon, Day Dream, Landmark, At-
A-Glance, Michael’s & Company, Impact,
Smith Western, Reiman Publishing, Terrell
Publishing and others.
David B. Fleetham
David was born in Vancouver, Canada in
1958 and grew up just outside of Toronto.
Soon after learning to scuba dive, he spent
three months in the Caribbean. He returned
to landlocked Ontario just long enough to
pack his bags and move back to Canada’s
West Coast, where he continued to focus on
underwater photography until he left in
1986 for the island of Maui. David’s photo-
graphs have been published around the
globe, with more than one hundred maga-
zine covers to date. In 1991 his photograph
of a sandbar shark became the only under-
water photograph ever selected for the
cover of LIFE. His award-winning work has
been published by National Geographic, the
Cousteau Society and every North American
diving publication, and has been displayed
at the Smithsonian Museum; the North
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