A good friend of mine, Neil Osborne (currently in Toronto) is doing some really cool things within his niche lately, like landing an adjunct teaching position at Queen’s University teaching conservation photography and visual communication within their school of environmental studies. Some lucky students there…

But the point of this entry is to point you towards his blog where he is now interviewing other prolific folks within the field of conservation photography…and featuring some of their work. You can probably see some of the best photography of our natural world with a point that goes beyond looking pretty…which is a fantastic thing if you ask me.

His blog is here, check it out for his first interview with Spanish photographer Daniel Beltra.

Nature by California Copyright Neil Ever Osborne

Part of the reason I came to grad school was to be around people who were as into photography as I was, and to be inspired by them. One such guy wasn’t around last year but came back after a hiatus to join our class.

Check out Neil Ever Osborne’s portfolio … A biologist by training he’s taking conservation photography to a new level and I’m really glad to have a classmate like him. He can teach us all to look at things a bit differently because of his different perspective, especially among a group of folks so dedicated to “people” photography. Before so long he’ll have a project on manatees up that he was working on in some warm-ish waters while I was holed up in suburban churches.