Biography: Jack Graham, Photographer

JACK GRAHAM / Nature & Landscape Photographer

Image thanks to my friends, Mary & Peter Andrade  www.pamphotography.com

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, captivated 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, Iceland, Cuba and Canyon County of Southern Utah, inner mountain region and Rocky Mts.and Iceland/Greenland.

I now reside near Portland Oregon, in the heart of the beautiful Pacific Northwest.

2013 will be my 18th year as a photographic workshop leader. My favorite places to conduct these workshops and photograph are the Eastern Sierra, Iceland & Greenland,  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, while working with the Great American Photography Weekend folks back in the 1990's such as John Shaw, Jack Dykinga, Art Wolfe, Galen Rowell, Frans Lanting, David Muench, Bill Fortney and others. For over 18 years, I have lead my own “Photo Classroom in the Field®” workshops throughout the United States as well as workshops for the Great American Photography Weekend, Pacific Northwest Art School (on Whidbey Island, Wash.) and Strabo Tours. In 2013, once again, I am proud to be on the faculty of the Pacific Northwest Art School on Whidbey Island, Washington. I also offer single day workshops for extensive one on one instruction.

My workshops are sponsored by Nikon, Singh-Ray, Really Right Stuff, NIK Software, Think Tank, Outdoor Photo Gear, Lensbaby, Lensrantals.com, Hunt’s Photo & Video, Nodal Ninja, and the Photograph America Newsletter. I do many speaking engagements throughout the U.S. 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 prints as large as 40” x 60” 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.

I am currently a featured contributor to  Landscape Photography Magazine, a large online magazine in Europe as a featured writer. In 2012 my webinar entitled "Keeping it Simple" was featured online by Nik Software. To date it has been viewed by almost 6,000 folks. You can view it here.

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, The Luminous Landscape, 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 (scroll down to the News Broadcast of 8/12/10). As well I recently recorded a webinar for NIK SOFTWARE called "Keeping it Simple"  

I am a member of FNAWS (Federation for North American Wild Sheep), Mono Lake Committee and SUWA (Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance).

I am on the Board of Directors for NANPA and past committee shair for NANPA's awards committee. (North American Nature Photography Association), .

For workshops as well as speaking engagements, I can be contacted via E-Mail at jack@jackgrahamphotography.com