Kevin Schafer's photographs of the threatened silky sifaka lemur of Madagascar were featured in a cover story in the April 2010 Smithsonian magazine. Also from this photo series, two images have been selected for the prestigious "Wildlife As Canon Sees It" feature in National Geographic magazine.

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 One of Schafer's unpublished dolphin portraits also won the top prize in the mammal behavior category at the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.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...

Selected winners, runners-up and other images from this year's Envirnomental Photography Invitation exhibition, presented this summer at Art Wolfe's Seattle gallery.

Known for his passionate advocacy for the environment, nature photographer Art Wolfe created a conservation-themed photo contest in 1997 as "an event for the advancement of photography as a unique medium, capable of bringing awareness and preservation to our environment through art." This year marks the 10th anniversary of Wolfe's annual photography exhibit, which has gone through some name changes and is currently known as the Environmental Photography...

Seattle-based shooter Kevin Schafer has been named the 2007 Outstanding Photographer of the Year by the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA). For more than 25 years, the wildlife photographer has used his images to document endangered ecosystems and species.

Other honors being presented in 2007 include...

Kevin Schafer, a photographer based in Seattle, won the Grand Prize in the 2003 Nature's Best International Photography Awards. His photograph, "Teepee and Aurora Borealis, Northwest Territories, New Year's Eve 2002/3," was included in the Nature's Best exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History last October.

Seattle-based photographer, Kevin Schafer, recently returned from the Falkland Islands, where he produced original photography for Falklands Conservation, a group working to protect these remote wildlife islands. He has also been asked to be one of the artistic contributors to Watershed Art, a 2001 project to document the Wenatchee River watershed in Eastern Washington.