Award-winning portrait, nature and wedding photographer Natalie Fobes, whose work has been featured in such magazines as National Geographic and the Smithsonian, has been chosen as the latest subject of the "Creative Inspiration" documentary series for the online education company Lynda.com.

The hour-long film features the Seattle-based photographer's work and is divided into 14 segments chronicling different aspects of her career and life.

After establishing himself as a painter and sculptor, this Los Angeles artist has turned to the medium of photography to create his asymmetrical, multi-dimensional cityscapes.

It takes more than a single snapshot to appreciate the intricacies of a place. The artist Jeremy Kidd, who is perhaps better known in Los Angeles as a painter and sculptor, discovered this fact a few years ago when he decided to pick up a camera as a new artistic tool.

His inspiration was, of all things, a Sylvia Plath poem. Eve Wood, a curator for the Cirrus Gallery, one of the most prestigious galleries in Los Angeles, asked Kidd to read Plath’s poem “Ariel” and create a piece for the gallery. He was traveling in Desert Hot Springs, Calif., when he saw a...

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...

The landscapes of Spanish-born photographer Daniel Beltrá help convey the urgent need for environmental conservation in the world’s most ecologically sensitive regions. If you talk to someone as deeply enmeshed in environmental conservation issues as Seattle-based photographer Daniel Beltrá and ask something like “Does global warming exist?”, you might expect an angry, exasperated response. But you’d probably be surprised...

Craig Varjabedian, founder of Eloquent Light Photography Workshops, has been awarded the 2010 Outstanding Photography Book Award by the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum for his sixth book, "Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby." Over the past seven years, Varjabedian compiled more than 90 black-and-white landscape images for the book, which focuses on the centuries-old Ghost Ranch in New Mexico.

German photographer Florian Schulz's work has been featured as part of a visual campaign that celebrates the beauty of the Arctic while simultaneously warning of the threats of offshore oil development and industrialization. The campaign, titled "Visions of the Arctic," was launched in April and is comprised of a series of public presentations by Schulz. A traveling exhibit of the photos opened at the G2 Gallery in Los Angeles on May 7.

Landscape photographer Elizabeth Carmel has published her second book on California's Sierra Nevada region, titled "Changing Range of Light — Portraits of the Sierra Nevada." Created as a testament to previous generations who have helped preserve the Sierra Nevada, Carmel's book focuses on how climate change affects our natural landscapes. The book’s 136 pages include vignettes from...

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.

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...