SEPTEMBER 11,2013 GENERAL MEETING 7:00pm (6:30pm SOCIAL TIME) BERGEN PARK FIRE STATION – PRESENTER: ANDY LONG

MEET ANDY LONG

Andy Long is an award-winning photographer / writer who devotes his photography work to the beauty of the world around us. As a leader of workshops since 1994, Andy likes to help people explore new areas and to go home with a memorable experience as well as great images. As a professional photographer since 1982, Andy tries to emphasize a unique eye in capturing images of our world and to pass this on to those who go on his workshops.

MEET ANDY LONG

Andy Long is an award-winning photographer / writer who devotes his photography work to the beauty of the world around us. As a leader of workshops since 1994, Andy likes to help people explore new areas and to go home with a memorable experience as well as great images. As a professional photographer since 1982, Andy tries to emphasize a unique eye in capturing images of our world and to pass this on to those who go on his workshops.

With more than 100,000 stock images, work has appeared in more than 40 publications and books as well as in National Geographic and Animal Planet television shows. Besides these, work has appeared in Birder’s World, Outdoor Life, View (Germany), Colorado Outdoors, Alaska Magazine, Audubon field guides, Texas Parks & Wildlife, regional AAA magazines, Montana Magazine, Montana Outdoors, Outdoor and Nature Photographer and in ads for Rollei cameras. He is a previous winner of the national RoseWater Network Photographer of the Year award. Andy’s work is currently featured at nest.Artistic Home gallery in Winter Park, CO.

As a writer, articles appear in every issue of Nature Photographer magazine, of which he’s an assistant editor and featured columnist. Many previous articles can be found at www.apogeephoto.com, where he wrote for close to 10 years. He is also a featured writer for www.imagecolorado.com.

In addition to this work, he presented programs around the country as part of the Nature First Photography Seminars sponsored by Nature Photographer magazine. He also was a featured speaker at the Colorado Photography Festival and the New England Camera Club Council Annual Conference.

Andy started his career as a sports writer and photographer, which helped with the transition to wildlife photography with being able to anticipate action and get the right shot – especially as he started out in the days of manual focus. Among his sports writing jobs was with the Jackson Hole Guide, which opened his eyes to the world of wildlife, nature and landscape photography. Several moves later he was back in Florida still doing sports but the great outdoors was calling and a move to Colorado ensued which is still his base.

Like many outdoor photographers, Andy drew a lot of inspiration from the work of the master – Ansel Adams. One quote of Adams’ has held true for quite a long time: “Sometimes I arrive just when God’s ready to have someone click the shutter.”