Juan A. Pons
Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Juan is a nature and wildlife photographer, whose passion is photographing our worlds magnificent wildlife and natural features. Juan is a strong supporter of wildlife and natural habitat conservation and is a member of several conservation organizations. Though private individuals purchase photos directly from him, Juan donates his images to non-profit organizations with nature and wildlife preservation missions. Juan never ceases to be amazed by the natural subjects he photographs and hopes that sharing his photographs will inspire others to appreciate and respect natural life.
With a background in computer science, Juan is an expert in digital photography, imaging, and storage systems.
With more than 20 years experience in photography, Juan has most recently embraced the biggest revolution in Digital SLRs, High Definition video. Working with video capable DSLRs since their introduction, Juan had become a recognized expert on maximizing the capabilities of DSLRs when shooting video.
Juan travels extensively capturing nature’s beauty, but also teaching on his own workshops and multitude events thru out the world on many photography topics.
Juan’s work has been featured on numerous publications, including: Sierra Magazine, Nature Conservancy, Audubon Magazine, American Photo, Audubon North Carolina, Wildlife in North Carolina, The Independent, and many others.
Juan is the co-host, with his friend Rick Sammon, of the The Digital Photography Experience podcast, a leading audio podcast that covers many photographic topics. Juan also owns Wild Nature Tours, offering instructional photo workshops in Yellowstone and many other locations thru out the US.
You can find more about Juan and his work at his personal website at http://juanpons.org/.
You can also follow Juan on twitter for workshop announcements and useful photography information: http://twitter.com/jpons
George Wuerthner
George grew up in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He had an early love for the outdoors and quickly became a naturalist interested in all aspects of nature.
As an undergraduate student, George studied a wide variety of courses, and eventually obtained degrees in liberal arts, botany and wildlife biology. He went on to graduate school at three different universities. First, he attended Montana State University in Bozeman Montana studying Range Science, then he moved to California where he entered the University of California, Santa Cruz and obtained a graduate degree in Science Communication, and last he attended the University of Oregon where he was enrolled in a graduate program in Geography.
During his undergraduate and graduate school days, George worked as a wilderness guide and instructor for the University of Montana Outdoor Program, river ranger/biologist on the Fortymile River in Alaska, a backcountry ranger in the Gates of the Arctic National Park, a surveyor for the BLM in Alaska, a botanist/biologist for the BLM in Idaho, and a junior high school teacher in California. He also regularly guided wilderness trips in the Rockies and Alaska.
In addition, Wuerthner has taught ecology for a number of universities, as well as led many field classes in the Yellowstone Ecosystem. He is an expert on the park's natural history, wildlife, and conservation history. He has lived/worked in the Yellowstone area for several decades and knows the park well.
He is the author of 34 books on natural history, and ecology including a number of large format coffee table book, and has authored two books on Yellowstone's natural history. He has more than 250,000 images in his stock files, which includes both 35 mm and 4 x 5 images. He is primarily a landscape photographer.
In the research and writing of a number of books on mountain ranges, wilderness areas and parks, George has visited more mountain ranges in the West than most--having explored hundreds of ranges from New Mexico to Alaska. He has also visited more than 350 wilderness areas, and hundreds of national parks.
As a former resident of Montana by Yellowstone National Park, George is intimately acquainted with the park and has nearly 10,000 images from the park alone, plus is extremely knowledgeable about the park's natural history
You can find out more about George and see more of his images at his website http://www.wuerthnerphotography.com