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Michelle Valberg Nunavut   Michelle Valberg is a renowned explorer, adventurer and wildlife photographer who has been telling stories with her camera for more than 30 years. Although she has traveled everywhere from Africa to the Caribbean in search of adventure, she is particularly celebrated for her passion for the Arctic. Known for her unique ability to make relatable images of unimaginable landscapes, Michelle finds art in all of nature’s most intimate moments. The world around us mirrors what we see in ourselves, she says, including our beauty, our simplicity, our complications and our responsibilities. Nature is a part of and reflects who we are.A Canadian Nikon Ambassador and Canadian Geographic Photographer-in-Residence, Michelle has exhibited her works internationally. In 2011, her...

Ian McGregor Saskatchewan   Born in Canada, Ian McGregor has lived and traveled in various places around the world. He spent his childhood and early adult life in Australia, enjoying the tropical sunshine and endless beaches. He started his career in Aviation, both as a pilot and in Air Traffic Control, and later as a Flight Dispatcher. Aviation took him to the Middle East and ultimately back to Canada. He particularly enjoys flying light aircraft in remote locations. Ian is a techie at heart and grew up around the pioneering days of personal computing, having an Apple ][ when they first hit the market. He has developed software, launched websites and built his own business. He is also an IT professional,...

John Marriott Alberta   John E. Marriott is one of Canada’s premier professional wildlife and nature photographers, with images published worldwide by National Geographic, BBC Wildlife, Canadian Geographic, MacLean's, and Reader’s Digest. He is a contributing editor to Outdoor Photography Canada magazine and the host of the popular web series EXPOSED with John E. Marriott (www.exposedwithjohnemarriott.com).  John has produced five coffee table books and one guidebook, including three Canadian bestsellers: Banff & Lake Louise: Images of Banff National Park (2007), Wildlife of the Canadian Rockies: A Glimpse at Life on the Wild Side (2008), and The Canadian Rockies: Banff, Jasper & Beyond (2009).  He just recently released The Pipestones: The Rise and Fall of a Wolf Family in August 2016. John is the owner/operator of Canadian Wildlife Photography Tours (www.canwildphototours.com), featuring wildlife photo adventures, workshops,...

Chris Collacott British Columbia   Chris Collacott is an award-winning master panoramic landscape photographer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Specializing in ultra-high-resolution panoramic images of cityscapes and wilderness landscapes, Chris captures dozens of separate high-resolution photographs and then stitches them together to form a single image of unfathomable depth and beauty that can contain over a billion pixels.Chris’s work is sold as fine art prints and used for large-scale applications in airports and on buses, magazine covers and other marketing materials by Destination British Columbia, Mercedes Benz, Vancouver Tourism, BC Hydro, the City of Vancouver, among many more clients.Chris’s prints are available at over 25 galleries in Western Canada, and are featured prominently in private collections, homes and offices...

Peter Mather Yukon   I was inspired to delve into photography when I was at University in 1994. I was mesmerized by Ken Madsen's touring Yukon Wildlands slideshow and I was inspired by the beauty of the Yukon and the fight to protect some of its key wilderness areas. After the show, I began tinkering with cameras and have been ever since.Photography gives me the opportunity to capture a unique moment in time. I love it because a single image can tell a story, inform, and inspire. I think of every image as a memory. My photography is a combination of photojournalism and fine art. I hope to inspire people to explore outdoors and to preserve our wildlife and our wildlands....