Home, Studio & Gallery: Santa Cruz, Calif.

Website: franslanting.com

Staff: Depending on which projects are in the works, Lanting employs up to a dozen workers.

Books: "Eye to Eye" (Taschen, 2003); "Jungles" (Taschen, 2000); "Penguin" (Taschen, 1999); "Living Planet: Preserving Edens of the Earth" (Crown, 1999); "Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape" (University of California Press, 1997); "Okavango: Africa's Last Eden" (Chronicle, 1993); "Madagascar: A World Out of Time" (Aperture, 1990).

He's been nearly eaten alive by the natural world he photographs, but Frans Lanting keeps going back for more, to capture glimpses of wildlife most people will never see face to face.

He's been nearly eaten alive by the natural world he photographs, but Frans Lanting keeps going back for more, to capture glimpses of wildlife most people will never see face to face.

He has watched insects consume his tent before his eyes. He has lived in environments so oppressively dank and humid that fungus would grow on his lenses. He's lost count of how many camera bodies have been consumed by the rain forests he's crossed. To capture elusive wildlife in its native state, he's done whatever it takes, be it hiding for hours in the mud behind wet foliage, or building a 100-foot steel platform in the forest. And did we mention the larvae that burst forth from underneath his own skin?...

Frans Lanting has received the 2005 Lennart Nilsson Award, which recognizes pioneers in medical and scientific photography. Lanting, who is based in Santa Cruz, Calif., was honored for his nature photography, examples of which have appeared in books, magazines and exhibitions around the world. He is a frequent contributor to National Geographic, where he served as photographer-in-residence, and has received numerous awards for his work as a photographer and conservationist.

New Gallery, School, Photo Contests Planned for 2006

Harnessing an impressive amount of inner energy, Wolfe has never been one to rest on his laurels, preferring instead to try something new, rethink the plan, explore another angle.

His newest books — "Vanishing Act" (named one of the best new science books of the year by Discover magazine, and winner of the German Fotobook Award in 2005) and hometown favorite "Seven Summits: The High Peaks of the Pacific Northwest" — are just two in a continuing line of art offerings filled with creative and masterful photographs. Even after his three decades as an award-winning and successful photographer, who has published more than 60...

In "88 Secrets to Wildlife Photography," wildlife and nature photographers Rod Barbee and Scott Bourne share professional techniques for making compelling photographs at locations close to home, such as zoos, parks or wildlife refuges. Beginning and experienced shooters will find tips for photographing wildlife, as well as information about equipment and basic and advanced...

Among the 142 winners of the annual Nature’s Best International Photography Awards were many members of the North American Nature Photography Association. NANPA photographers from the western United States who were recognized include: 

Robert Barber, Colorado, Highly Honored, Creative Digital;

Alice Cahill, California, Winner, Plant Life; ...

Randy Harris, a photographer based in Bellevue, Wash., has been named the grand prize winner of the Nature’s Best Magazine National Photo Contest. The winning photograph was a close-up of an Alaskan grizzly bear fishing for silver salmon.

Harris’ work has appeared in magazines, on television and in advertising campaigns. The award-winning photo can be seen at randyharrisphoto.com.

The October 2004 issue of National Geographic features Frans Lanting’s coverage of Hawaii’s volcanoes. Lanting also has included his image collection on his website, lanting.com. The images, which cover landscapes, wildlife, people and environmental issues from around the world, can be browsed and licensed online for editorial and commercial use.

Seattle’s Wildlands Press, a publishing arm of Art Wolfe, Inc., has been recognized for Wolfe’s most recent book, Edge of the Earth — Corner of the Sky. The book was honored with the Publishers Marketing Association’s Benjamin Franklin Award in the Arts category, and also garnered an IPPY Award in the Coffee Table Book category, presented by Independent Publisher magazine.

Edge of the Earth — Corner of the Sky contains images from seven continents. Robert Redford, a founding member and trustee of the National Resources Defense Council, contributed...

For many photographers, the opportunity to photograph wildlife in Africa is a pinnacle experience. For more than a century, adventurers went to Africa to track big game — and, originally, to slaughter it in great numbers. Today, hunting is banned in most parts of Africa but, for the modern-day adventurer with a camera, tracking and photographing the continent’s legendary big game is equally thrilling, and makes for a compelling adaptation of the African safari experience.

Just as the 35mm camera replaced the hunting rifle, a new technological revolution is taking place on the savannah: digital capture. Digital SLRs are beginning to equal the quality rendered by the wildlife shooter’s favored 35mm transparency films, such as Fuji Velvia and Kodak E100VS. Although film remains solidly entrenched in many wildlife...