Rob Gray :: grayoutdoors :: links

These are the best nature photography sites I have found on the web, I keep the list short because I believe it should be exclusive and also because I want it to be current, with all links valid.

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James Kay. James has been a photographer for 20 years and is an advisor to "Outdoor Photographer", one of the world's leading photography magazines. All this shows in his work, there's some spectacular images on his site, both colour and mono.

Bill Atkinson This guy's good. There's over 200 images on this site so I haven't looked at them all yet but those I have seen were outstanding. Bill is using digital printing to produce fine prints, I'm convinced this is fast becoming a practical way to go.

Steve Bloom A rhino charges the camera, a Probiscus monkey leaps over a setting sun, a baby Orangutan reaches up to touch its mother's mouth; these are some of the 300 odd stunning wildlife images to be seen on Steve's site. Depicting animal behaviour rather than just static portraits, these images are well worth checking out.

David M Barron. David is an "assignment and stock" photographer and his work shows this with images of just about every kind from what seems like half the countries in the world. Colourful Guatemalans, monochrome Orcas, and great colour wildlife. Check out the White Ibis shaking itself dry.

Jim Brandenburg is one of the worlds leading nature photographers (if you've ever read national Geo or a wildlife/outdoors mag you've almost certainly seen Jim's work). This site still has some areas under construction but the images are great and it looks like there will be some interesting interactive features.

Andrew Brown landscape photography. Andrew has a great collection of panoramic landscape images from around Australia. One that really caught my eye is a great shot of a breaking wave with rocky headland in the background.

Charles Cramer. Sometimes you encounter a site that just yells class from the very start, Charles Cramer's site is one of them. Charles has been featured in View Camera and Photo Techniques, taught at the Ansel Adams workshops, artist in residence at Yosemite etc etc. The site design is simple and the images first class, have a look.

Allen Davis Fine Art Nature Photography - poster-size prints of landscape photography, wildlife photography, sports photography.

Peter Dombrovskis Australia's foremost landscape photographer. Peter died recently while on a walk in his beloved Tasmania. His images survive in the form of calendars, cards and books, all of which can be viewed and purchased at this site.

Geoff Dore Geoff is an award winning nature and landscape photographer based in the UK. His work appears in calendars, magazines, greeting cards etc. He has won many competitions including one of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year categories (no mean feat as this competition attracts thousands of entries from some of the world's best photographers). For a good laugh check out the "Bit of fun" page.

Ken Duncan. Ken Duncan is Australia's leading practitioner of the panoramic landscape style, he has three real galleries and a range of products from fine prints to multi-media CDs.

f.45 Images by Christophe Cassegrain. Some of the best large format colour images I've seen of the American west. Vibrant colours, subtle hues and nice simple images.

The Fatali Gallery. The images of Michael Fatali. This is a simple and very classy site with absolutely stunning large format colour photos of the American west.

Mark Gray (no relation). This Australian Landscapes website showcases an online gallery of Australian panoramic landscape photography for sale, by fine art landscape photographer Mark Gray. His landscape photography range includes open and limited edition prints.

The Luminous Landscape. This site features the images and articles of Michael Reichmann. The images are great and the articles informative. The shot of the lone photographer on the dunes is just great and really sums up what landscape photography is like.

Mark Raymond Mason Photography A very well designed site with many great nature photos, by a self-confessed "gypsy and jack-of-all -trades". The images on Mark's site are mostly abstracts of natural subjects, and a joy to browse.

Geoff Murray. Geoff hails from Tasmania and with a backyard like that you'd hope for some good photos. Geoff is well up to the task of photographing one of the world's outstanding landscapes, some of the images here are just brilliant.

William Neill Stunning images, but then that's what you would expect from a bloke with William's track record. Based in Yosemite his images have been used by the best publications, National Geo, Sierra et al. He is also a contributor to "Outdoor Photographer".

Robert Rankin Robert is one of Australia's most prolific wilderness photographers. He has a number of books to his credit and produces calendars, diaries, cards, posters, even music.

Galen Rowell needs no introduction to outdoor photography types. He is basically a legend in adventure imaging and has some nice shots as well.

Scenic Light features the images of Bob Evans mostly taken in Yosemite, The Sierras, Mono Lake etc. Info about workshops, stock photos and plenty of good images. Most (all?) images have a brief commentary which I think is a good feature for a photo site. I'm sure we all want to know a bit about the making of the image.

Howard Slavitt. Excellent images from the American west. Deserts, coasts, snow, the whole shebang. Beautiful images, but then I wouldn't link to the site if they weren't.

Adam Spence. Adam is only 16 years old but shows a lot of promise as a nature photographer. His site is well laid out, and the photos pretty good as well.

Taun's home page A fascinating site about photography with a really good section on large format.

Wise's Wilderness Geoff has a good range of images of Kosciuszko, Tassie, Budawangs etc. He has written quite a lot about his feelings for the Australian bush and photography, much of which is similar to my own thoughts. I recently had the pleasure of seeing some of these images for real and they are stunning. I'm afraid that we have a long way to go on the Web before we can properly display photography.