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Art Wolfe

Art Wolfe (1951-) captures amazing landscapes and wildlife, documenting endangered species and landscapes that could be lost to future generations. He was the youngest of three children born to a Navy-photographer and a commercial-artist. Wolfe wanted to become a full-time painter, not a photographer. It was at the University of Washington, while he was majoring in fine arts and art education, he first began experimenting with an old, used camera. Teaching himself he quickly mastered the basics of photography which proved to be the perfect medium for him, one which reflected both his strength as a painter and his love of nature. Wolfe also works on assignment and publishes in magazines such as National Geographic, National Wildlife, and Smithsonian.

He travels thousands of miles every year to capture portraits of wildlife, his animal studies focus on his subject's distinguishing features, behavior and natural habitat. His landscape photographs are like his paintings, they mix vibrant color, texture, and shapes with unusual lighting conditions. Wolfe creates amazing impressions of nature, from misty landscapes to abstract close ups.



Many times he uses unusual lighting as in the photo of the tiger. Some photo's have high contrast between colors like the top star trails picture. Others have slight contrast like in the photo with the horse. Some are able to convey a story like the bottom panoramic. Others can make you sit back and think, like the photo of the man and boy.

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