KEYNOTE SPEAKER - Joel Sartore 23nd ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF THE CRANES 2010 Nov 16-21, 2010 Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge Photo: Katie Joseph

2010 Keynote Speaker
Joel Sartore
Thursday night 8pm, November 18, 2010
We are lucky and excited to have him give our keynote presentation!
JoelSartore.com

For more than 20 years, Joel has contributed to such magazines as Time, Life, Newsweek, Audubon, Sports Illustrated and hundreds of books. National Geographic has sent him to exotic destinations to photograph wildlife. Grizzly bears have chased him up trees, parasites have devoured his flesh, musk ox have charged him. And yet, not only has he lived to talk about it, he does so with humor and a desire to educate others about the dire state of our environment. He'll speak Thursday night, November 18, 2010, at 8:00 pm at the Macey Center. He also will talk about the business of photography and its future earlier on Thursday.

A short bio From www.joelsartore.com:

"A life-long Nebraskan, Joel Sartore brings a sense of humor and a mid-western work ethic to all of his National Geographic Magazine assignments. Two decades with the National Geographic Society have allowed him to cover everything from the remote Amazon rain forest to beer-drinking, mountain-racing firefighters in the United Kingdom.

Joel is committed to conservation, especially in the Great Plains where he has lived his whole life. In his time with National Geographic, he has focused on endangered species and land use issues. He is co-founder of the Grassland Foundation, and a founding member of the International League of Conservation Photographers.

He has written several books including Photographing Your Family, Face to Face with Grizzlies, and Nebraska: Under a Big Red Sky. His most recent book, Rare: Portraits of America's Endangered Species is now available for order.

Besides the work he has done for National Geographic, Joel has completed assignments for Time, Life, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated and contributed to numerous book projects. Joel and his work have been the subject of several national broadcasts including National Geographic’s Explorer, the NBC Nightly News, NPR’s Weekend Edition, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 and an hour-long PBS documentary. He is also a regular contributor on the CBS Sunday Morning Show with Charles Osgood."

New: Joel's latest book, Rare: Portraits of America's Endangered Species ships on March 16, 2010. What started as a personal project grew to a multi-year effort to document everything from grizzly bears to endangered flies. http://www.joelsartore.com/

"RARE covers American species on the brink, success stories, and what you can do to help. The book features portraits of some of the country's most endangered creatures from flies to wolves. Some of them are likely to go extinct without people ever knowing they existed, and the goal of this book is to give them a voice. Part of a multi-year project documenting Earth's vanishing biodiversity, RARE shows what we stand to lose if we don't act now. The good news is that there is still time, and this book highlights what each of us can do to save these unique creatures -- and ultimately, ourselves."

 

 

A few images from RARE

With one of the world's largest migratory routes, the red knot (Calidris canutus rufa) finds itself especially susceptible to any disruption in its feeding areas along the way. Along the East Coast, the loss of horseshoe crab eggs due to overfishing has caused this bird's decline. (Candidate for Listing)

 

American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) at the St. Louis Zoo's Monsanto Insectarium. (Endangered)

 

Images copyright (c) Joel Sartore Photography. Unauthorized usage is prohibited
Printed herein with permission from Joel Sartore