Seattle-based photographer Wolfgang Kaehler recently returned from a six-day photo shoot in Yellowstone National Park, where he documented the use of snowmobiles in the park, including a new, environmentally friendly four-cynlinder model. Kaehler also has an upcoming trip through Asia planned and will be visiting Esfahan, Shiraz, and Persepolis, Iran; Rangoon and Pagan, Burma; Borobudur, Indonesia; Angkor, Cambodia; Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; the Silk Road of Turfan, China; Jerash, Jordan; and Damascus and Palmyra, Syria.

Dave Montizambert and Sylvianne St.Onge of Montizambert Photography inVancouver, B.C., were part of an international 200-speaker delegation at this year's Irish Professional Photographers Association annual congress. The event was held in Dublin, Ireland, in April. Their presentations included technology and marketing tips, with an emphasis on making digital photography profitable, new streams of revenues from digital, and PhotoShop techniques. Their program was voted best seminar of the entire congress. Montizambert and St. Onge are also scheduled to appear in Austria for the Gmunden Days, another European federation conference.

Art Wolfe’s latest published works, “The High Himalaya” and “Africa,” are on the bookshelves and receiving great reviews and awards from around the world.

In recent travels, Wolfe flew to Sicily during a 72-hour journey to record Mount Etna on film when it erupted last fall. He was able to capture unique perspectives and amazing nightscapes of lava flows.

Wolfe’s “The Living Wild,” which is in its fourth printing, was a winner in...

Doug Menuez recently took time from his busy schedule shooting high-profile advertising campaigns for Ford, Siemens, Nokia, Microsoft and other clients to create and fund a personal body of work about tequila.

He traveled to the town of Tequila, Mexico, and documented the ancient traditions of making the town’s namesake alcoholic drink in the oldest distillery and hacienda in Mexico, while exploring tequila’s role in...

Seattle-based Gary Benson recently photographed Vince Lombardi Jr. for Federal Express and had portraits published in Reader’s Digest and Entrepreneur magazines. He also photographed high-tech executives from Amazon.com, Nordstrom, Alaska Airlines, Microsoft and Boeing for a nationwide computer publication.

Natalie Fobes was selected as one of Outdoor Photographer’s “Masters of Wildlife” and featured in a September 2001 article.

Kristen Imig, a new Seattle resident, was awarded first prize in National Geographic Traveler’s “What Makes America Special?” photo contest. Imig’s entry was a black-and-white medium-format image of an Independence Day parade in Stony Brook, N.Y., on Long Island. Imig’s prize was a 13-day safari for two through southern Africa.

Ed Morris, a recent graduate of the Brooks Institute of Photography, spent three months (July through September 2000) bicycling coast to coast while capturing in photos the American spirit as personified by its mayors. The result was the exhibit “Mayors Across America,” and a soon-to-be-released coffee table book.

The project was designed to explore the people behind the...