We’ve all been there – going out with the camera looking for photographs without much idea of how to seize the opportunity to do something new. The desire to photograph is there, but creativity seems to be on vacation. The fact is that creative inspiration can be hard to find and even harder to sustain. […]

The very American artistic tradition of celebrating the concept of wilderness, associated so closely with photographers like Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter, reached an early zenith in the mid 19th century with the Hudson River School painters. Their work attempted to capture exceptional qualities of light, topography, and weather to render idealized visions – not […]

July 2010, by Justin Black, Executive Director – International League of Conservation Photographers, for the Nature Conservancy and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation The Dragon rippled as I slid the kayak out onto the swamp’s caramel brown water. The still quiet of pre-dawn was broken only by the song of a prothonotary warbler, a croaking bullfrog, the sudden […]