Honorable Mention / 2015 / Nature / Landscape_N

Great Sand Dunes NP

Minus 10 degrees is a tough day to be out creating
photographs...unless as the sun rises and you find the light to be
dancing on the dunes! What a wonderful morning, as the sun
crested the mountains to the east, the low hanging clouds created
dynamic variable light and shadows that skimmed across the snow
covered dunes. It was one of those morning that you just looked in
all directions and just smiled!

You might say there was a natural collision of circumstances between Jack’s nearly lifelong love of nature, and that of photography. His wondrous journey into nature began when he attended an Outward Bound month-long wilderness course at age 16. At 18, (just over 40 years ago) he picked up his first camera, developed his first B&W print in the darkroom and quickly put his two passions together.

In recent years Jack’s photography has been exhibited in Paris, Athens, Berlin, Moscow, and Malaga Spain and domestically in the US and published internationally.

Awards Jack has been internationally awarded, having won Gold or 1st place in IPA, PX3, ND Awards, Moscow International Foto Awards, Tokyo International Foto Awards, International Gala/Pollux Awards, Black and White Spider Awards and Black and White Photography Magazines Portfolio Awards. Most recently in 2018, Jack was voted the #2 Black and White photographer globally by One Eyeland.