Daisy Gilardini Recognized at the Veolia Environment BBC Wildlife Photography Awards 2009

We are always proud to have our photographers recognized for their amazing work and Daisy Gilardini was “specially commended” at the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards 2009 for her photo “The Fairy Companion.”

© Daisy Gilardini

Each year the competition – considered to be the OSCARS of nature photography – finds the very best wildlife images taken by the world’s top professional and amateur photographers. This year the contest received more than 43,000 entries from 94 countries. Roughly 100 images were awarded and I’m extremely honored to be part of this small group!

Picture courtesy of Mike Kendrick

The Award Ceremony was held at the Natural History Museum in London in October.

Have a look at the images of the event on my blog : http://blog.daisygilardini.com

To view all the other winning images : www.nhm.ac.uk

Dee Ann Pederson Chosen to be Included in 2009/2010 Smithsonian Exhibition

Award winning photography from Dee Ann Pederson

For the third year Dee Ann’s wildlife photography has been selected from tens of thousands of entries to be included in the 2009/2010 Smithsonian Exhibit.

All category Winners and a selection of the Highly Honored images are displayed in the annual photo exhibition of large-format prints with captions telling the stories behind the shots.

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Jon Cornforth Wins “Highly Honored Landscape” in 2009 Nature’s Best Int’l Photography Awards

© Jon Cornforth

One of our talented photographers, Jon Cornforth, has won “Highly Honored Landscape” in the 2009 Nature’s Best Windland Smith Rice International Photography Awards for his photograph “Torres Dramatic Sunrise.” Such a stunning image and we’re proud to represent award winning photographers all over the world. We’ll let Jon fill you in:

I created this image 2 years ago while backpacking in Torres Del Paine National Park in Chile.  Most trekkers who have visited this location have done so while multi-day trekking and usually only spend 1 night before moving on.  However, my only goal during my visit was to photograph the Torres in epic light, so I spent 5 days/4 nights camping in the same location so that I could photograph the spires each day.  My last morning was the most dramatic.

Congratulations Jon!

Be sure to stop by his website for some more stunning photography: http://www.cornforthimages.com/

Amazing Amazon River Dolphins

© Kevin Schafer / DanitaDelimont.com

Years ago while traveling 3500 miles up the Amazon River on an expedition cruise ship, it was hard not to notice the  pink river dolphins surfacing everywhere.  We would go out on rubber zodiacs during the day with the naturalists, cruising up the tributaries  looking for caimen and other Amazonian wildlife.  The dolphins were quite distinctive and since then I’ve had occasional photo requests, but no images to offer.  Now our photographer, Kevin Shafer, has photographed these peculiar mammals for an article appearing in the June 2009 issue of Nat’l Geographic and we are thrilled to have gotton some of those images for our collection.  To see some of the photos we have, search our site for (or click on) the keywords  “river dolphin” or the Latin name “Inia geoffrensis” and you will find them.

Kevin Schafer

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We’ve recently started adding material from Kevin Schafer’s collection of worldwide nature and travel content. Kevin’s been shooting the world for over 25 years and has enormous breadth and depth of coverage from our natural world.

I found it interesting that he first got his start in this business after working for the postal service based in McMurdo Sound in Antarctica! We never know how our lives will evolve and what our career paths will lead us to. I’ve known of Kevin’s work for many years and am thrilled to have the images he’s offered us, exclusive to our site.

What’s nice about Kevin’s work is that although he’s a “nature” photographer, he’s had the opportunity to travel the world and has learned how important it is to include people traveling on location, visiting a destination etc. and incorporates people into his shots whenever he can.

Kevin was honored by NANPA (the North American Nature Photography Association) with the Outstanding Nature Photographer of the Year in 2007, award and has many achievements and awards besides.

Click here to see Kevin’s gallery

Phil Borges

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Phil Borges is an amazing photographer whose interest in the empowerment of women has taken him to third world countries in search of documenting their achievements. He’s found women in many dubious situations and how they’ve overcome their poverty or helplessness and brought success to their community of women in different ways. We honor his work and are grateful to have it available to you!

Phil also shoots in a unique portrait style, reminiscent of Edward Curtis, in my mind. Phil spent his earlier career as an orthodontist before realizing the fulfillment that his photography would bring him.

He and his wife Julee also have an amazing student photo program called “Bridges to Understanding.” It links indigenous middle school students from various parts of the world to each other through the internet. Their photo trips bring in volunteer mentors to teach students how to use digital still and video cameras. Then the students work on projects documenting their daily lives, to share with student classrooms in other parts of the world.

Click to see Phil’s gallery

Axiom

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We are pleased to bring you a new collection of travel related content from a new partner in Europe called Axiom.

This new sub-agency is a partner specializing in worldwide travel content. They bring a new perspective to our site that will appeal to many of you, featuring images from some of Europe’s award winning photographers.