Yellowstone Burn Area, Yellowstone Lake © Art Wolfe

On Monday Art, Gavriel Jecan, Jay Goodrich, and Rich Reid arrived in Jackson, Wyoming to start scouting locations for our Grand Teton Workshop. They made a quick trip to Yellowstone to visit a burn area from a wildfire that Art filmed last year. The location was stunning. Here is an abstract that Art shot from that visit. Don’t forget our next instructional event will be in San Jose, CA on September 25, 2010. Art will be speaking about the Art of Composition. There are still spaces left and with a $195 entrance fee why wouldn’t you attend?

William Neill's New E-Book: YOSEMITE: VOLUME ONE Digital Edition

Friend and fellow photographer William Neill has just released a new e-book on Yosemite. The book comes complete with technical info, as well as thoughts from what Bill was thinking when creating the images. You can purchase and download William Neill’s Yosemite Volume One directly from his website.

X-rite has a blog posting highlighting audio and images from the Spring Art of Composition Lecture Series. Now you can witness first hand some of what he is teaching participants. Because of its popularity Art has decided to add dates in October for 5 additional cities. Visit the Art Wolfe Workshops Website for more information.

Art Wolfe at the Burke Museum

Nice articles on the ICPA exhibit & Art at the Burke:

This article is about the competition and this article is about Art himself.

Support your local snow leopard and the Woodland Park Zoo in their efforts to save this endangered cat!  Saturday, August 14^th, is the fourth annual Snow Leopard Day, a celebration in conjunction with the Snow Leopard Trust.

BLOG: Snow Leopard Day at Woodland Park Zoo – Images by Art Wolfe

TODAY August 9th 2010, marks the 17th annual International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1994….for more visit Amnesty USA’s website.

BLOG: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples – Images by Art Wolfe

BLOG: Gay Pride Northwest – Images by Art Wolfe

Last weekend Art traveled to Vancouver, BC with friends and fellow photographers Jay Goodrich and Gavriel Jecan to shoot for an upcoming book on dogs and capture unique images at the Gay Pride Parade. The week prior to that Art and Gavriel photographed the Gay Pride Parade in Seattle. Here is a mini gallery of both events.

BLOG: Grand Teton Landscapes – Images by Art Wolfe

Last week we took a look at the wildlife of Grand Teton National Park. This week we are taking a look at the landscape.

The Tetons are one of the newest mountain ranges in North America and at the same time contain some of the oldest geological rocks–dating back some 2.7 million years. How is this possible you might ask? Well it has to do with two scenarios, the first is the fact that the Teton Fault is still pushing the peaks skyward today. In addition, over 2 million years ago, glaciers flowed down from northern Yellowstone depositing varying materials from up north and simultaneously carving out and sculpting the Teton Skyline. Two different events from two different locations give the Tetons two very different geological finds. One other amazing thing about this mountain range is that because there are no foothills (the fault runs right along the base of the peaks) you get to witness complete unobstructed views of the mountains. All this geologic force has created a fairly flat valley floor with peaks topping out close to 14,000 feet above sea level. If you couple that with the plethora of lakes and rivers in the region you again have the makings for extremely dramatic photography.

Visit the Tetons this August with Art Wolfe, Gavriel Jecan, Jay Goodrich and Rich Reid. A four-day workshop being held in the heart of one of America’s most scenic locations.

BLOG: Grand Tetons Wildlife – Images by Art Wolfe

In the book, “The Living Wild”, Art wrote, “After all, an animal without habitat is simply a curiosity biding time to its extinction. But an animal with its habitat is a vibrant representation of natural selection.” It is within this book that Art highlights the environment and the wildlife in a symbiotic relationship and travels beyond the more common seen portrait of wildlife. There are many places throughout the world that highlight this type of diversity, but Americans need to travel no farther than the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. With the reintroduction of wolves in the 90s’, this 11 million acre reserve of land has become one of the most intact temperate ecosystems on the planet. If you count the bird, mammal, fish, insect, amphibian, plant and reptile species, you walk away with thousands of potential photography subjects. Due to the stunningly beautiful land surrounding the creatures, this place offers the opportunity to capture imagery very similar to the visions Art has created in “The Living Wild”. Moose, bear, antelope, elk and countless others can be composed with the backdrop of the Tetons at sunrise and sunset. If you are wondering how, now is your chance to learn.

Visit the Tetons this August with Art Wolfe, Gavriel Jecan, John Greengo, and Jay Goodrich. A four-day workshop being held in the heart of one of America’s most scenic locations.

It was the original. A saturated, low grain, super sharp, transparency film that changed the way photographers created. Kodak’s Kodachrome slide film put beautiful images on the covers of magazines like National Geographic, Audubon, and National Wildlife. It was the film that started the fine grain revolution that continued with films like Fujichrome Velvia. Kodachrome was a staple of many of the photographers, including Art, during the films days. Now when technology is getting the better of the past Kodak has discontinued Kodachrome. Photographer Steve McCurry has exposed the last roll of 36 exposures for a National Geographic story. In time, we all will get to see those final images. Here are a couple of Art’s images taken before he started shooting digital using Kodachrome from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.