Bio
Image thanks to my friends, Mary & Peter Andrade www.pamphotography.com JACK GRAHAM / Photographer
I began photographing nature in the mid seventies while living in the New York City/ New Jersey metropolitan area. While attending Indiana University, completing a performance degree in Music, I began to explore the rural landscapes of the beautiful hills of southern Indiana. Here is where my appreciation of the natural world began. These rolling hills, forests, waterfalls and prairies of southern Indiana became the integral backdrop and formation of what would lead me to establish the vision I see in nature today.
After my first trip to California and Arizona, I set my sights on eventually moving west to photograph the natural beauty that has to this day, captivates me. I moved to Northern California in 1989 and began exploring the varied areas found on the West Coast. Living in Northern California afforded me the opportunity to photograph the never ending landscapes and scenic natural beauty of the area, as well as the vast natural areas of the west, concentrating especially in the Pacific Northwest, the Eastern Sierra of California, Arizona, the Colorado Plateau, and Canyon County of Southern Utah, inner mountain region and Rocky Mts.
I now reside near Portland Oregon, in the heart of the beautiful Pacific Northwest.
2012 is my 17th year as a workshop leader. My favorite places to conduct these workshops and photograph are the Eastern Sierra, the canyon lands and deserts of the southwestern United States and the Pacific Northwest. I’ve been very fortunate in photographing ,learning and assisting on workshops led by, some of the top nature photographers such as John Shaw, Jack Dykinga, Art Wolfe, Galen Rowell, Frans Lanting, David Muench, Bill Fortney and others. For over 17 years, I have lead my own “Photo Classroom in the Field®” workshops throughout the United States as well as workshop for the Great American Photography Weekend and Strabo Tours. In 2012 I am proud to be on the faculty of the Pacific Northwest Art School on Whidbey Is. Washington. I also offer single day, workshops for extensive one on one instruction. Jack’s workshops are sponsored by Nikon, Singh-Ray, Really Right Stuff, NIK Software, Think Tank, Outdoor Photo Gear, Lensbaby, Digital Foci, Hunt’s Photo & Video, Photograph America Newsletter and NANPA. I do many speaking engagements throughout the US as well.
I capture my images using Nikon DSLR’s and Nikon Lenses. This equipment affords me to be able to create large files in great detail which can be transformed into large prints as large as 30” x 40” or more with striking detail. I use only polarizing filters; neutral density filters which aid in correcting for difficult lighting conditions. Natural lighting is used almost entirely. The more dramatic the lighting, the better!
I strive to represent the scene as close as I witnessed it as possible. Some sharpening, contrast and color adjustments are made
I recently joined Landscape Photography Magazine, a large online magazine in Europe as a featured writer ( www.landscapephotographymagazine.com/ ) .I have been successful in publication and stock photography as well. Both Photo and writing credits include Outdoor Photography, Nature’s Best Photography, Nature photographer’s Online Network(www.npn.com), The Luminous Landscape(www.luminous-landscape.com) ,NANPA”S Expressions 2009, California Wild, Current’s (NANPA) and many DNR publications, Audubon, Outdoor Photography, The Nature Conservancy, Chicago Wilderness and Sierra Club publications as well as many calendar credits. Corporate work includes prints and stock applications for internal as well as publication use. I have been interviewed at length by NIK RADIO (NIK Software:
I am the chair person for the Awards Committee with NANPA (North American Nature Photography Association, www.nanpa.org ; FNAWS (Federation for North American Wild Sheep, Mono Lake Committee, & SUWA (Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance). I can be contacted for workshop as well as speaking engagements via E-Mail at jack@jackgrahamphotography.com