Seattle photographer Daniel Beltra was named ABC News' Person of the Week in November 2009 for his conservation photography of endangered regions throughout the world. Focusing on the effects of climate change on the world's rainforests in the Amazon Basin, Congo, Borneo and Sumatra, Beltra's images were recently featured as part of the Prince's Rainforests Project (rainforestsos.org), an environmental organization founded by England's Prince Charles, with offices in London, Paris, Berlin and New York City.

The 2009 International League of Conservation Photographers League Award went to Boulder, Colo., photographer James Balog for his outstanding achievements in conservation photography. Balog's recent work includes his "Extreme Ice Survey," which documents the effects of climate change on glaciers around the world.

Danita Delimont, founder and principal of travel stock photography firm Danita Delimont Photography, has been named the Jane Kinne Picture Professional of the Year by the American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP). Based in Bellevue, Wash., Delimont received this award for her 29 influential years in the photography industry.

Throughout her career, Delimont has served on the boards of photographic organizations such as the ASPP, the North American Nature Photographers Association (NANPA) and the...

Frans Lanting's "LIFE: A Journey Through Time" will be displayed through February 2010 as part of a multimedia orchestral performance in Italy, Mexico and England.

A collaboration between National Geographic photographer Frans Lanting and composer Philip Glass ("La Belle et La Bete," "Dracula," "Les Enfants Terribles"), the performance was first conceived as part of the Cabrillo Festival in Santa Cruz, Calif., in 2006 as a means to create "a lyrical interpretation of life on our planet." The final show of the...

Los Angeles-area photographer Tom Atwood was awarded second and third prizes in the 2009 Worldwide Photography Gala Awards competition. This year's images, submitted from 27 countries around the world, can be seen in The WonderPick Gallery at wonderpick.com.

To combat the impact of the economic downturn in the ever more competitive photography industry, five Portland-based photographers have joined together to create a collaborative assemblage known as PhotoForce (photo-force.com).

The team — consisting of Steven Scardina, Lincoln Barbour, Brian Lee, Stuart Mullenberg and Daniel Root — was established to bring "five top photographers together in one collective."

The group's first major presentation, "Setting the Table," went on display at the Venue Pearl in Portland in January...

While photographing a wine festival in Yantai, China, last September, Oregon-based photographer Janis Miglavs discovered that his most recent book, "Oregon: The Taste of Wine," was one of four finalists in the Gourmand International Book Competition.

Miglavs' book, which highlights up-and-coming Oregon wines, took second place in the Best Book on New World Wine category. The book also won the Benjamin Franklin award for the best regional book in North America.

Kevin Schafer, a Seattle-based nature photographer, was featured in the July 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine for his photographs of Amazon River dolphins. One of Schafer's unpublished dolphin portraits also won the top prize in the mammal behavior category at the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. His work has been published in Smithsonian, Natural History and National Wildlife...

The Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., has selected five portraits by renowned photographer Al Satterwhite to become part of its permanent collection.

The collection is made up of portraits of individuals who throughout history have made an impression on American culture. Satterwhite's selected portraits are of baseball legend...

Seattle-based Jeffry W. Myers, known for his ability to capture the mystic and magical elements found in nature, has published a new book, "Mystery and Meaning in Our Universe." The book is composed of nature photography fro...