Robert Glenn Ketchum, a fellow with the International League of Conservation Photographers, was featured in the March/April issue of American Photo magazine as the fifth photographer to appear in the publication's Masters Series. To date, Ketchum is the only photographer in the series whose imagery is based mostly on the natural world rather than on people, fashion and...

At the International Photographic Council's New Year's luncheon, held at the United Nations, Herbert Keppler received the council's Hall of Fame Award. Keppler, vice president of Popular Photography & Imaging and American Photo magazines, was honored for his efforts to support the advancement of photography.

Associate editor Chris Johns has been appointed editor in chief of National Geographic magazine, succeeding William L. Allen, who retired at the end of the year. Johns, whose photographs began appearing in the magazine in 1985, is the ninth full-time editor in the society's 116-year history.

Johns began making changes almost immediately, combining the photography and illustration departments. Dennis Dimick, illustration editor, will head the new department and has been named associate editor for illustrations. The director of photography position was eliminated; Kent Kobersteen, who had held that title since 1998, left the magazine...

Bambi Cantrell, of Walnut Creek, Calif., has been recognized by Wedding Portrait Photographers International with the International Photographic Council Leadership Award.

Cantrell's images have appeared in The New York Times, American Photo and Ebony, as well as a number of other publications. She also teaches workshops and seminars at the Santa Fe Workshops, the WPPI convention and...

Like so many things in life, photography runs in cycles based on reaction and a desire for change, even if that means reinventing the wheel at times. Sometimes these changes lack the proper historical perspective of all that has gone before. Other times, the changes sought harken back to seemingly safer, more predictable times.

In the post-Civil War years, American photographers began turning their attention from the war to the West. They brought home images of the incredible, endless landscapes of the new frontier to an East hungry for expansion. They built an enthusiasm for these places that would help lead to the founding of the national park system, starting with Yellowstone National Park in 1872.

Today, more than a century later, nature photographers are still bringing home images...